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Pedro Almodóvar to head up the Jury at the 70th Cannes Film Festival

by Little White Lies

The iconic Spanish filmmaker will serve as President of the main competition jury for the first time.
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The Force – first look review

by Ed Gibbs

This timely, well-intentioned doc offers a revealing look at the inner workings of the Oakland PD.
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A Ghost Story – first look review

by Ed Gibbs

Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara reunite for David Lowery’s slow-burn meditation on loss and grief.
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Manifesto – first look review

by Ed Gibbs

Cate Blanchett goes hell for leather in this unapologetically arty film about art.
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Killing Ground – first look review

by Ed Gibbs

There’s shades of Straw Dogs and Deliverance in this effective Aussie backwoods horror.
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The Discovery – first look review

by Ed Gibbs

Jason Segel and Rooney Mara are an unlikely central pairing in this low-key sci-fi about the discovery of an afterlife.
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Glasgow Film Festival 2017 opening and closing films announced

by Little White Lies

David Tennant is set to close out the 2017 festival in a biopic of the philosopher RD Laing.
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Five things to see at the London Short Film Festival 2017

by Tom Williams

The LSFF returns with an impressive and occasionally surprising line-up…
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Is this the world’s most lavish film festival?

by Simran Hans

At the Marrakech International Film Festival, champagne flows freely and stars fill the sky.
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Why the question of identity is still a common concern among African filmmakers

by Tasso Dattenberg-Doyle

This year’s Film Africa event showed that African people are still not free to define their own identity abroad.