Emerging from the pandemic, filmmakers experimented with form and narrative to pose deeper questions about our past, present and future.
Maya Duverdier and Amelie Van Elmbt investigate the legacy and current precarious state of one of New York’s most enduring cultural landmarks.
A young girl discovers a life she never thought possible in the Irish countryside in Colm Bairéad’s affecting debut feature.
By Matt Turner
Hong Sang-soo interrogates the function of art in his seemingly self-reflective latest feature.
By Lou Thomas
Peter Finth’s chilly Arctic drama features some stunning scenery but ultimately proves an underwhelming watch.
Despite boasting an interesting concept, anime giant Tetsuro Araki’s first original feature plays it a little too safe.
Carla Simón’s semi-autobiographical second feature is a charming affair, focusing on a family whose farmland is under threat.
Michael Koch’s drama about an Alpine couple whose lives are changed by a devastating medical diagnosis proves a frustrating watch.
By Matt Turner
Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh ponders a world where animals have enslaved the human race in his latest experimental feature.
By Lou Thomas
Screenwriter Graham Moore turns his hand to directing with this sartorial spy thriller starring Mark Rylance.
Poetry and performance take centre stage in Mohammad Shawky Hassan's inventive challenge to society's heteronormativity.
A documentary master presents an updated portrait of the USA, drawing on his previous version first released in 1975.
Laurent Charbonnier and Michel Seydoux spend a year with a magnificent oak tree in this meditation on nature.
This aimless and thin family portrait set in ’80s Paris is boosted by an affecting turn from Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon play a couple whose relationship is tested by the arrival of an old friend in Claire Denis’ latest.
Peter Strickland serves up a helping of culinary chaos in his suitably strange fifth feature film.
Two professional actors go ‘undercover’ in this eye-opening exposé of Mexico City’s police force.
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