Festivals

Interview: Cate Blanchett and Matty Sidle

By David Jenkins

With already countless strings to her acting bow, Cate Blanchett adds yet one more by starring in Matty Sidle’s experimental comic short, Bozo Over Roses.

Guo Run – first-look review

By David Jenkins

The pain and confusion of miscarriage is presented with bracing clarity in Li Dongmei’s impressive character study.

First Person Plural – first-look review

By David Jenkins

A bourgeois couple experience the noxious effects of a vaccine in this gorgeous, surreal study of corrupted minds and bodies.

Vitrival – first-look review

By David Jenkins

This absorbing and carefully-crafted chronicle of a quaint Belgian village crumbling to pieces is 2025 breakout.

Freezing temperatures and rising tensions at Tallinn Black Nights

By Hannah Strong

Estonia's premiere film festival proves a welcoming hub for cinephiles where the action on-screen couldn't be more explosive.

Trauma ripples through time at the London Film Festival

By Erin Mussett

Jesse Eisenberg, Malcolm Washington and Christopher Andrews explored the diverging manifestations of generational trauma at this year's London Film Festival.

Greek Cinema Now: A Postcard from the Thessaloniki Film Festival

By Rafa Sales Ross

While the likes of Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari have gone travelling the world, what’s going down on the Greek home front?

Taking stock of Japanese cinema at Tokyo International Film Festival

By Hannah Strong

The biggest celebration of cinema in Japan shows promise as an event in the city's cultural calendar.

Missing Child Videotape – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Kondo Ryota's debut feature is a chilling ghost story that begins with a videotape – but that's where the similarities to Ringu end in this impressive new J-Horror.

Teki Cometh – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

An elderly man plans the final year of his life in Daihachi Yoshida's impressive adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel.

Route 29 – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

A standoffish young woman embarks on a road trip with an unusual 12-year-old girl in Yusuke Morii's offbeat sophomore feature.

11 Rebels – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Kazuya Shiraishi polishes off a 60-year-old script for this bloodthirsty samurai epic about a band of criminals recruited to defend a castle from the emperor's army during the Boshin War.

20 Hidden Gems at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival

By Little White Lies

Our hand-picked haul of must-see titles from outside the main gala and competition strands.

The Tokyo International Film Festival has unveiled its full line-up

By Little White Lies

Japan's biggest film festival returns with a line-up of 110 films for its 37th edition.

On Falling – first-look review

By David Jenkins

The dire lot of a low paid factory worker is the subject of this rigorous if hardly revelatory character study from debut director Laura Carreira.

Afternoons of Solitude – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Albert Serra’s extraordinary, intense portrait of toreador Andrés Roca Rey is one of the Spanish director’s finest works to date.

When Fall Is Coming – first-look review

By David Jenkins

This lightweight Chabrolian country drama from François Ozon sees an elderly retiree with a complex past trying to do right by her family.

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