Can’t decide what to see at MIFF? Our experts have some thoughts
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- ▪Our reviewers have done some of the heavy lifting, watching features, animations and documentaries from home and abroad.
- ▪German filmmaker Valeska Grisebach (whose previous film, Western, was also set in Bulgaria) enjoys pulling at the threads of male-coded genres; Veska, portrayed by amateur actor Yana Radeva, has something of Clint Eastwood about her, in a n
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