Festivals

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Festivals

Vitrival – first-look review

by David Jenkins

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

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