Love and humour gives way to bitterness and rancour in this slick and involving portrait of an Iranian family in turmoil from Saeed Roustaee.
A young J-pop singer must choose between love and stardom in Koji Fukada's gentle romantic drama.
This semiautobiographical drama from Golden Bear-winner Carla Simón makes for a heartfelt exploration on the joys and pains of extended family.
By Mark Asch
Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis deliver a spirited western ballad about a young woman seeking freedom and her daring lover.
A brilliant young academic struggles to come to terms with the aftermath of a sexual assault in Eva Victor's moving dramedy.
Renate Reinsve plays an actress struggling with the sudden return of her estranged father in Joachim Trier's latest drama.
Two musicians set out to record the folk songs of rural America in Oliver Hermanus' restrained but affecting drama.
By Mark Asch
Russian exile filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov selects Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death“ as the subject of the first film made in his new home, Germany.
Iranian director Jafar Panahi delivers a Palme-ready thriller exploring the high price of revenge on a potentially evil man.
June Squibb plays a spirited nonagenarian who moves back to New York from Florida in Scarlett Johansson's underwhelmed directorial debut.
Arab and Tarzan Nasser's thriller transports us to 2007, where two friends running a drug dealing business out of a falafel cart soon come into conflict with a corrupt police officer.
Jodie Foster stars as a psychiatrist trying to solve a potential murder in Rebecca Zlotowski's underwhelming drama.
By Mark Asch
Denzel Washington stars in Spike Lee's updated version of Akira Kurosawa's High and Low, about a music mogul who is targeted by a vengeful kidnapper.
Pack your bags for a madcap, cross-country adventure with our issue dedicated to Wes Anderson’s latest, The Phoenician Scheme.
A slick screen icon becomes a political pawn in this brash movie industry satire-cum-political spy thriller from Tarik Saleh.
Two couples find themselves caught up in a love quadrangle after one of them separate in Michael Angelo Covino's romantic comedy.
By Thomas Boyd
Launching in July, Collective Film Festival London will offer a variety of inclusive, international film screenings alongside multidisciplinary, DIY workshops.
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