Pietro Marcello adapts Alexander Grin’s fairy tale about a poverty-stricken family with breathtaking results.
This landmark film receives its UK premiere at Queer East Film Festival, but its journey has been a tumultuous one.
The Toronto-based documentary festival’s 2022 edition looks to the past for ideas of how we might build a brighter tomorrow.
They’ll be joined by fellow luminaries Alex Garland and Pietro Marcello when the Quinzaine returns to Cannes next month.
This year’s stacked line-up also includes new work Kelly Reichardt, Ruben Ostlünd and Park Chan-wook – but no David Lynch.
Oska Bright Film Festival is offering a bold, inspiring vision for how disability can be represented on and off the screen.
By Erin Brady
A killer cast slashes through a disastrous hurricane party in a raunchy and fun romp meant for a theatre.
This year’s BFI Flare Film Festival encouraged the LGBTQIA+ community to reflect on the past in order to build a better future.
By Erin Brady
Beth de Araújo takes viewers into a white supremacist nightmare in her terrifying yet staggering directorial debut.
By Annie Lyons
A talented cast including Alison Brie and Aubrey Plaza can't save Jeff Baena's Italian sojourn from taking a sour turn towards the tedious.
A Polish documentary explores the history and artistic trauma surrounding Andrzej Żuławski’s fragmented sci-fi magnum opus.
Prescient and deeply affecting Ukraine-set doc exploring the lives of children displaced by the country's 2014 invasion.
A handful of big names — Elvis! George Miller! Tom Cruise! — have been locked in prior to the official selection.
By Anton Bitel
Christina Ricci stars as a mother on the edge in director Chris Sivertson’s lakeside creature feature.
By Anton Bitel
Joseph and Vanessa Winter blend horror and comedy in this entertaining haunted house freak-out.
By Jojo Ajisafe
Tagged as the Cool Runnings of wine tasting, this documentary tells the true story of Zimbabwean sommeliers.
By Anton Bitel
We survey the most exciting titles screening at Glasgow’s premiere annual celebration of film.
One of the world's leading celebrations of short film offers an exciting vision not only for the future of cinema, but for how a film festival can work.
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