Film Festival News | Little White Lies

Festivals

A woman sitting on a bed in a dimly lit, cosy bedroom with wooden furniture and curtains.
Festivals

The full BFI London Film Festival 2023 line-up has been announced

by Marina Ashioti

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things and Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn are among the picks of this year’s bumper LFF crop.
Curly-haired person looking pensive in a crowded urban setting.
Festivals

Baan – first-look review

by Marina Ashioti

In Leonor Teles’s enigmatic second feature, spatial experimentation becomes geographic gap-bridging material.
A woman in a white coat stands in a dimly lit room, with others behind her wearing similar clothing.
Festivals

Sweet Dreams – first-look review

by Marina Ashioti

Ena Sendijarević hits the sweet spot with this offbeat, surreal period piece set on a remote Indonesian island.
Two women dancing in a nightclub, illuminated by colourful strobe lights.
Festivals

Animal – first-look review

by Marina Ashioti

Dimitra Vlagopoulou gives a knockout performance in Sofia Exarchou’s resort-set second feature about a group of seasonal performers.
Hands holding a vintage black-and-white photograph against a wooden surface.
Festivals

Marseille Film Festival explores cinema as a medium of escape

by Kitty Grady

A world away from the glitz and glamour of Cannes, another French coastal city aims to build a more inclusive and challenging vision of a film festival.
A large outdoor cinema screen displaying a film poster. In the foreground, a crowd of people are gathered to watch the film screening. In the background, historic buildings and a domed structure can be seen, suggesting an urban setting.
Festivals

A journey through the past at Il Cinema Ritrovato

by Esmé Holden

What can a film festival dedicated to the screening of older cinema tell us about the present state of audience engagement with movie watching?
Portrait of a man with a serious expression, his face illuminated by dim light against a dark background.
Festivals

In Camera – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Naqqash Khalid’s inventive feature debut is a spiky take on navigating the British film industry as a non-white actor and trying to find your identity amid the hostile present day.
Two adults, a woman and a man, sitting together in an indoor setting with art prints on the wall behind them.
Festivals

The Hypnosis – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A power couple on the brink of pitching their start-up experience unexpected tension after a hypnotherapy session causes one of them to lose all their social inhibitions.
Close-up of a woman's face, with vibrant orange and red lighting casting a dramatic glow on her features.
Festivals

Red Rooms – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Pascal Plante presents a piercing take on true crime in this austere, affecting psychological thriller.
A woman with dark hair and a serious expression, wrapped in a light-coloured blanket or shawl.
Festivals

Fremont – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A young Afghan immigrant finds herself adrift in San Francisco in Babak Jalali’s poetic fourth feature.