MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
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CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
MEXICAN director Alfonso Cuaron and his jury gave the festival’s Golden Lio top prize to the rookie Venezuelan film-maker Lorenzo Vigas’s From Afar.
Set in Caracas, it tells the story of the wealthy Armando (Alfredo Castro), middle-aged and struggling to connect to others emotionally, who develops an obsession with young petty criminal Elder (Luis Silva, pictured).
Their first encounter is a violent one but this doesn’t discourage his fascination with the handsome teenager.
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