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To a Land Unknown

Mahdi Fleifel
28-06-2024

Victor Fraga - 28-06-2024

Transactional human beings and accidental places: Palestinian refugees resort to a life of crime in order to survive and be reunited with their loved ones in Europe - in cinemas on Friday, February 14th [Read More...]
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Talking to an old friend: our open letter to the Berlinale

 

Victor Fraga - 06-02-2025

Just as he is about to attend the 75th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival,. DMovies's editor Victor Fraga writes an open letter to organisation; it feels like talking to a very old and dear friend about a very grave mistake they made [Read More...]

Hard Truths

Mike Leigh
2024

Victor Fraga - 26-09-2024

Marianne Jean-Baptiste is the bitter wife, mum and sister from hell, in Mike Leigh's stormy family drama - in cinemas on Friday, January 31st [Read More...]

Kathleen Is Here

Eva Birthistle
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 05-06-2024

A wayward teen leaves foster care behind, only to bump into a potential "mother" - on VoD on Monday, February 10th [Read More...]

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Mohammad Rasoulof
2024

Victor Fraga - 28-05-2024

At the height of the The Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, a civil servant gets promoted to role that will challenge his morals, and compromise the integrity of his family - Mohammad Rasoulof's heart-stopping new drama is in cinemas on Friday, February 7th [Read More...]

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

Mark Cousins
2024

Victor Fraga - 04-07-2024

Painting the painter: Mark Cousins's new doc offers a peculiar glimpse into the life and work of Scottish painter Wilhelmina "Willie" Barns-Graham - on VoD on Monday, February 3rd [Read More...]

Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: A Separation (number 11)

 

Fabio Rocha - 09-02-2025

The second entry in Fabio Rocha's his Foucault-inspired series of raw, visceral and gritty movies is a late Iranian New Wave film permeated by "the institutional gaze", and with "a sense of constant surveillance" [Read More...]

My Favourite Cake (Keyke Mahboobe Man)

Maryam Moghaddam Behtash Sanaeeha
2024

Victor Fraga - 16-02-2024

Iranian widow seeks love and affection in a society that blatantly denies women autonomy, freedom and the simple pleasures of life - gently subversive drama is now on all major VoD platforms [Read More...]

Lurker

Alex Russell
2025

Lida Bach - 11-02-2025

Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe shine in Alex Russell’s cynical debut feature about parasitical friendship and fame, a movie with significant parallels to Saltburn - from Sundance and the Berlinale [Read More...]

The Night is Dark and Colder than the Day

Christina Friedrich
2025

Victoria Luxford - 03-02-2025

A group of school children collaborate with a German filmmaker in order to make a very different portrait of growing up - from the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam [Read More...]

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office 

Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens
2024

John Bleasdale - 11-02-2025

A portrait of mad scientist and aquatic Doctor Doolittle, John C Lilly, becomes a survey of 1960s' crackpottery and counterculture - from the 54th edition of Rotterdam [Read More...]

Those bloody vegans!!!

DMovies' reader pours her heart out as she talks about Meet Your Meat the film that changed her life forever, in emotional statement.

Women don’t cower in silence!

Thais reveals the very dirty movie that made her become the strong woman and the empowered professional that she is now!

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