by Josh Slater-Williams
A bereaved tour guide’s fixation on his illustrious ancestor spirals into obsession when a TV series descends on his small Scottish village.
A popular 2023 video game receives a big screen transformation thanks to filmmaker Genki Kawamura.
Bi Gan’s third feature is an epic in every sense of the word, taking viewers on a sprawling odyssey through cinema.
Claire Foy’s performance as an austringer (keeper of goshawks) elevates this adaptation of Helen Macdonald’s memoir about coming to terms with grief.
Kei Pritsker and Michael T Workman chronicle the student movement for Palestine through the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest treads similar thematic territory to his prescient 2001 cyberhorror, through the prism of an e‑commerce, vengeance-fuelled thriller.
Lily Franky stars in this tender tale about a father and son travelling from Tokyo to the Lake District to scatter his late wife’s ashes.
Animé director Naoko Yamada returns with a wonderful coming-of-ager set in a Catholic girls’ boarding school.
This winning comedy about a grandson whose empathy is driven by a sizeable inheritance is obvious grist for the US remake mill.
Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson and Guy Maddin’s political satire pits world leaders against an unlikely climate event.
A detective is haunted by a murder case he can’t crack in Wei Shujun’s unsettling crime drama.
A newlywed couple are haunted by sleepless nights in Jason Yu’s confident, darkly humorous debut feature.
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