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Features

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Festivals

Female authenticity takes centre stage at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021

by Lydia Rostant

Three films at this year’s festival combined female-centred stories with inspiring acts of protest.
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Queer Cinema

In praise of Shiva Baby and the Messy Bisexual

by Anna Bogutskaya

Emma Seligman’s growing pains comedy ushers in a new era for bi characters who are not judged on their sexuality.
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LWLies Sixties

LWLies Sixties Presents… 2001: A Space Odyssey reimagined

by Adam Woodward

Our partnership with 99designs by Vistaprint continues with Jim Stoten’s psychedelic take on Kubrick’s sci-fi classic.
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Incoming

Jessica Chastain praises the good lord in The Eyes of Tammy Faye trailer

by Charles Bramesco

She plays televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in the new dramatization of her improbable rise and fall.
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Incoming

Bryan Fuller is pumping the gas on a remake of Stephen King’s Christine

by Charles Bramesco

The creator of TV’s Hannibal and Pushing Daisies will make his foray into movies with the tale of automotive horror.
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Festivals

The Souvenir Part II will premiere in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

by Hannah Strong

Joanna Hogg joins Clio Barnard and Miguel Gomes, while Frederick Wiseman will be honoured with the Carrosse d’Or.
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In Praise Of

The enduring legacy of Ousmane Sembène

by Leila Latif

A new restoration of his long out-of-print 1968 film Mandabi offers cause to celebrate the late Senegalese maverick.
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Incoming

Everyone’s armed and dangerous in the first trailer for No Sudden Move

by Charles Bramesco

Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, Amy Seimetz and Jon Hamm star in Steven Soderbergh’s period crime caper.
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Festivals

Uprising is an urgent, emotional account of a national tragedy

by Katie Goh

Steve McQueen and James Rogan’s three-part docuseries examines three pivotal events from 1981.
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Incoming

Reality and fantasy overlap in the first trailer for Bergman Island

by Charles Bramesco

Tim Roth, Vicky Krieps, Mia Wasikowska and Anders Danielsen Lie appear in Mia Hansen-Løve’s latest.