A down-on-his-luck jockey sees a chance to reinvent himself in Luis Ortega's wacky black comedy.
Angelina Jolie has never been better as the legendary opera singer Maria Callas, captured in the final week of her life by Pablo Larraín's elegant biographical drama.
Featuring films by Joanna Arnow and Miryam Charles, the inaugural Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend at London's Genesis Cinema celebrates all the strange and creative forms that documentary films can take.
Carla J Easton and Blair Young’s informative documentary about Scotland's unsung musical pioneers strikes an impactful chord.
Will Seefried’s confident debut feature tackles a devastating, overlooked history through queer romance in the 1920s.
A man's complicated relationship with an AI-powered doll is the subject of this oddly moving yet morally grey documentary.
The Austin perennial is making its way across the Atlantic and for a brand new cultural showcase.
By Xuanlin Tham
In the Scottish borders, this bold independent film festival champions new ways of seeing, with a 2024 focus on the work of Palestinian artist Noor Abed.
By Mark Asch
An Iranian judge appointed to Tehran's Revolutionary Court grapples with dissent both at work and at home in Mohammad Rasoulof’s politically charged thriller.
Two sisters share an unshakable bond in Ariane Labed's uniquely strange feature debut.
Noémie Merlant's sophomore feature, co-written by Celine Sciamma, is a riotous black comedy set on the hottest day of the year in Marseilles.
An archetypal good girl meets a boy from the wrong side of the tracks in Gilles Lellouche's sweeping melodrama.
A young enforcer for a Brazilian gangster finds himself hiding out at a sleazy sex hotel in Karim Aïnouz's neo-noir.
By Jenna Mahale
Payal Kapadia's first fiction feature is a gorgeous romance, concerning the lives of two contrasting nurses in present-day Mumbai.
Ben Whishaw rises to the occasion of essaying the poet, provocateur and political dissident Eduard Limonov.
A visually ravishing if emotionally and thematically opaque travelogue is the latest from Portuguese maestro, Miguel Gomes.
Oliver Stone's portrait of Brazil's beloved president sadly fails to really capture what it is that makes Lula da Silva such a galvanising political force.
By Mark Asch
Paolo Sorrentino, Italy's lustiest working filmmaker, spins a tedious yarn about one woman's otherworldly beauty.
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