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A new documentary revisits the Tokyo gas attack 25 years on

by Matt Turner

In Me and the Cult Leader, filmmaker and survivor Atsushi Sakahara confronts both his own trauma and that of a nation.
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What’s old is new again in Lupin III: The First

by Kambole Campbell

The classic Japanese manga series makes the jump from 2D to 3D, and makes it look easy.
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A new film explores the history of mass incarceration and house music in America

by Hannah Clugston

Bring Down the Walls suggests that the dance floor can provide liberation from oppressive judicial policies.
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Cannes announces official selection for its cancelled 2020 edition

by Charles Bramesco

Steve McQueen, Wes Anderson and Im Sang-soo were all set to compete at this year’s festival.
Two young men sitting on a sofa, one wearing a Rukowtski T-shirt and the other wearing a red cap. They are holding a bottle of alcohol.
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A leading documentary film festival asks ‘What’s in a meme?’

by Adam Woodward

This year’s Thessaloniki Documentary Festival will explore the origins and evolution of an internet phenomenon.
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Ewen Bremner’s sausage and other highlights from the 2020 Glasgow Film Festival

by David Jenkins

A career-best Simon Pegg and a Sudanese teen movie we’re also on the menu at this year’s GFF.
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Days – first look review

by Greg Wetherall

Taiwanese master Tsai Ming-liang returns with a profound, meditative poem on the human need for connection.
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The Roads Not Taken – first look review

by Greg Wetherall

Sally Potter’s hallucinatory, meandering road movie will test your patience to breaking point.
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The Woman Who Ran – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A woman catches up with three close friends in this charming situational drama from South Korea’s Hong Sang-soo.
Night-time scene with people in military uniforms and a dog, gathered around a campfire on snowy ground.
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Siberia – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Abel Ferrara sends Willem Dafoe off into the snowy wilds of Russia in this punishing metaphysical dream.