Festivals

Taylor Swift: Miss Americana – first look review

By Hannah Strong

One of the world’s biggest music artists bares her soul in this intimate, earnest docu-portrait.

What can we expect from President Spike Lee at Cannes 2020?

By Charles Bramesco

Brooklyn’s finest will head up the competition jury when the festival returns for its 73rd edition.

Female directors open and close the 2020 Glasgow Film Festival

By David Jenkins

Alice Winocour’s Proxima and Coky Giedroyc’s How to Build a Girl are among the highlights of the 16th GFF.

What to see at the 2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam

By Max Copeman

The Netherlands’ premier celebration of cinema returns in January with a new-look programme.

Here’s what we’re most excited to watch at Sundance 2020

By Hannah Strong

Dee Rees, Josephine Decker, Miranda July, and much, much more...

Why the Sundance Film Festival should be top of your 2020 travel plans

By Hannah Strong

Set in the picturesque mountains of Utah, Sundance is a film lover’s paradise with a difference.

10 highlights from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2019

By Patrick Gamble

Space dogs, muscle men and a Soviet cinema icon were at the forefront of this year’s event.

Discover the free online film festival which celebrates Europe

By Little White Lies

ArteKino is an innovative digital film festival showcasing the crème of new European cinema.

Six of the best films from the Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2019

By Hannah Clugston

York’s annual showcase of groundbreaking short-form cinema returned for its biggest ever edition.

Can you mourn for a person of whom you have no memory?

By Beth Webb

Korean director Noh Young Sun reflects on her deeply personal debut feature, Yukiko.

How the UK Jewish Film Festival expanded out east

By Hannah Strong

We meet UKJFF Head Programmer Nir Cohen who explains how he plans to reach new audiences.

Exploring indigenous Canadian films at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma

By Justine Smith

This year’s edition of the Montreal-based festival showed the value of giving marginalised native filmmakers a platform.

Did Ethan Coen deliver the strangest screenwriting lecture ever?

By Flavia Ferrucci

The writer-directors maps out the past, present and future of cinema through its depiction of… surgery?

Fanny Lye Deliver’d – first look review

By David Jenkins

This slow-burn folk horror set in old, weird England marks the auspicious return of talented British director Thomas Clay.

Meet the Guy Maddin-esque gonzo filmmaker challenging Canadian identity

By Justine Smith

Director Matthew Rankin discusses his experimental debut feature The Twentieth Century.

Nocturnal – first look review

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Cosmo Jarvis shines in this portrait of flawed, inarticulate masculinity by first-time feature director Nathalie Biancheri.

A new film explores New York’s Chinatown through an unlikely heroine

By Jenna Mahale

Writer/director Sasie Sealy discusses the making of her “risky” debut feature, Lucky Grandma.

How do you decide what to watch at a film festival?

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Sprawling programmes and a focus on new talent makes buying tickets a tough task. But it need not be.

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