Author: Stephen Dalton

Fatherland

Set in newly divided Germany at the start of the Cold War, Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski’s biographical literary drama ‘Fatherland’ is a visually stunning, superbly acted, minimalist masterpiece.

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Trial of Hein

Home is definitely not where the heart is in young German writer-director Kai Stänicke’s ‘Trial of Hein’, a ponderous but mostly impressive drama about exile, identity and repressed desire.

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Roya

Bravely defying government restrictions on her work, Iranian writer-director Mahnaz Mohammadi draws on her own prison experiences to make her gripping, Kafka-esque, artfully time-scrambled thriller ‘Roya’.

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