Alice Winocour draws on her brother’s experiences of the 2015 Bataclan attack to create a drama about recovering from trauma.
A man on his deathbed recounts his youth as a firefighter in João Pedro Rodrigues’ striking queer feature.
By Ryan Coleman
A Costa Rican man resists attempts to destroy his home in director Ariel Escalante Meza’s mystical drama.
Emmanuelle Nicot paints an achingly beautiful portrait of friendship, recovery and identity through a young girl’s sexual abuse story.
By Mark Asch
The Dardenne brothers return with a harrowing story of human trafficking in Belgium, centring on two young migrants.
Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance star in Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s ambitious but flawed biographical feature.
Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s humanist portrait of care, surgery and technology is one of the highlights of Cannes 2022.
A narcissistic couple engage in a constant game of one-upmanship in Kristoffer Borgli’s disappointingly one-note feature.
David Cronenberg’s return to filmmaking can’t quite deliver on its promise that surgery is the new sex.
A teenage cartoonist searches for authenticity in writer/director Owen Kline’s pleasingly grubby debut feature.
By Ed Gibbs
This multi-sensory look at David Bowie’s life and career is an all-consuming affair that explores and safeguards the man’s legacy.
A police detective forms a dangerous bond with a woman suspected of murdering her husband in Park Chan-wook’s swooning crime drama.
By Steph Green
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi mines her memories attending the prestigious Théâtre des Amandiers for this nostalgia-soaked drama.
By Mark Asch
Annie Ernaux and her son David piece together a magical home movie essay on marriage, motherhood and the whole damn thing.
A family’s quiet mountain life is disrupted by the arrival of a relative in Lea Mysius’ beguiling second feature.
By Steph Green
First-time director Charlotte Le Bon draws out sweet performances from her young co-stars in this idyllic coming-of-ager.
Gina Gammel and Riley Keough’s debut feature focuses on two Oglala Lakota teenagers as they come of age in South Dakota.
By Mark Asch
Ethan Coen’s solo debut effort is a ribald and energising archive montage on the life of taboo-busting rocker, Jerry Lee Lewis.
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