In Leonor Teles's enigmatic second feature, spatial experimentation becomes geographic gap-bridging material.
Ena Sendijarević hits the sweet spot with this offbeat, surreal period piece set on a remote Indonesian island.
Dimitra Vlagopoulou gives a knockout performance in Sofia Exarchou's resort-set second feature about a group of seasonal performers.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Pascal Plante presents a piercing take on true crime in this austere, affecting psychological thriller.
A young Afghan immigrant finds herself adrift in San Francisco in Babak Jalali's poetic fourth feature.
The psychological courtroom thriller with the great Sandra Hüller wins the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Three precocious kids set out on a quest for blueberry pie in Weston Razooli's throwback adventure film.
By Mark Asch
In what could be his final film, Ken Loach turns his eye to UK immigration, focusing on a pub landlord in a town reckoning with a new population of Syrian refugees.
By Mark Asch
Josh O’Connor breaks out his halting Italian as a grave-robbing rascal in Alice Rohrwacher’s divine exploration of time, history and memory.
By Mark Asch
Italian veteran Marco Bellocchio’s adaptation of David Kertzer’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara is an occasionally enthralling, yet often staid and repetitive affair.
French provocateur Catherine Breillat returns with strange film about a transgressive sexual relationship between a middle-aged lawyer and her teenage stepson.
Virginie Efira delivers a typically committed performance opposite young breakout star Félix Lefebvre in this debut fiction from Delphine Deloget.
Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel play late 19th century gourmands in Tran Ahn Hung’s scintillating epic of proto-foodie passions.
The long-awaited return of Spanish filmmaker Victor Erice is a slow-burn marvel which climaxes in a sequence of overwhelming profundity and mystery.
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