The opening film of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival offers a limp metafictional critique of the modern film industry.
By Cici Peng
Guest curator Cici Peng reflects on the remarkably programming on offer at the fifth edition, offering a mixture of screenings and immersive events that shift ideas of what a festival can be.
One of the world’s most important documentary festival delivers a host of very fine films as well as some flim-flammy political statements.
How do programmers assess films for a festival selection? We find out from one of the Oxford University Student Film Festival team.
Yorgos Lanthimos, David Cronenberg and Francis Ford Coppola roll out for France's premiere film jamboree.
In her intriguing debut feature, director Zia Anger attempts to exorcise the ghost of a long-abandoned filmmaking venture.
At Northern Europe's oldest short film festival, cinephiles from around the world come together to declare small is beautiful – be it in the sauna or on the ice.
A report from the 2024 TIDF sees art, empathy, a bit of violence and a hopeful vision for the future of Greek cinema.
Alice Lowe’s miraculous second feature is a triumph of imagination, soul-searching and a refined comic instinct.
One of the most down to earth festivals in the calendar combines world-class programming with a community of ardent cinema lovers – and a helping of movie-themed karaoke.
A teacher stuck in a rut finds her routine disrupted when an old friend from college reappears.
This delightful anthropological comedy from the Zellner brothers documents an eventful year in the life of four ambling Sasqatch.
Isabelle Huppert proves she’s one of the great comic performers in this delightfully meandering character piece from Hong Sang-soo.
Olivier Assayas offers a wistful, meandering and amusingly philosophical exploration of life during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Author and regular Claire Denis collaborator Christine Angot creates a harrowing portrait of a family collectively suppressing its traumas.
Mati Diop offers a creative and moving guide to discussing anti-colonialist action in her very fine follow-up to 2019’s Atlantics.
A lunatic piece of sci-fi social realism in which Bruno Dumont brings flying churches and sexed-up aliens to France's Opal Coast.
In the Japanese costal town Ushimado, a colony of stray cats eke out a fraught existence alongside the human residents, documented by filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda.
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