Dreamers: People of the Light (Xəyalpərəstlər: İşığın Uşaqları)
Football coach is determined to assemble and train a women's team, in this well-meaning yet contrived Azerbaijani documentary - from the Sarajevo Film Festival [Read More...]

Two Seasons, Two Strangers
Sho Miyake's delicate meditation on movement and stasis masterfully depicts unspoken intimacy and dazzling Japanese landscapes - winner of the 78th Locarno Film Festival shows at the Red Sea [Read More...]

No One Will Hurt You (Nessuno Vi Farà del Male)
Swiss-Bosnian director returns to his native Srebrenica, where a local man narrates his survival ordeal in horrifying detail - sobering genocide do premieres at the Sarajevo Film Festival [Read More...]

Fantasy
Three tomboys find comfort and inspiration with an extravagant trans woman, in this lame tale of LGBT+ liberation from Slovenia - in the Official Competition of the Sarajevo Film Festival [Read More...]

Wind, Talk to Me (Vetre, Pričaj Sa Mnom)
Young Serbian filmmaker and his family seek to overcome grief during a countryhouse house reunion, in this quiet and dispassionate piece of autofiction - from the Sarajevo Film Festival [Read More...]

The Family (Porodica)
Elderly couple who survived the Sebrenica massacre gradually lose hope in reviving their moribund city, where the largest genocide of Europe since WW2 took place - from the Sarajevo Film Festival [Read More...]

Happyend
Music-loving students grapples with earthquakes, xenophobia, surveillance and authoritarianism, in Neo Sora's (Ryuichi Sakamoto's son) clumsy allegory of "near-future" Japan - in cinemas on Friday, September 19th [Read More...]

Otter (Vidra)
Teenage girl juggles love, lakes and death in this effective and charming indie drama from Montenegro - from the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival [Read More...]

Dry Leaf
Aided by an invisible friend, a desperate man searches for his missing daughter - monumental ode to the aimless souls of Georgia shows at the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Poluotok
Cruising becomes a multifaceted, strange and distant activity, in this one-shot short film from Croatia - from the 78th edition of Locarno [Read More...]

White Snail
Two unlikely Belarusian lovers bond over their otherworldly appearance and lifestyle, in this heartwarming piece of autofiction - from the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Birthday Party
Willem Dafoe holds together a mostly lifeless movie about a detestable millionaire attempting to control his beautiful daughter - from the Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]

Eldorado
Construction worker doubles down as a tailor at night, in this red-tinged short movie about costumes, power and lust - French film premieres at Locarno [Read More...]

If You Should Leave Before Me
The process of grief is presented in a captivating way in the Anderson brothers’ imaginative tale - from Raindance   [Read More...]

Legend of the Happy Worker
David Lynch's editor takes the director's seat and creates a modern-day Western with abundant light, scorching soils and... no guns - from the 78th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]

In the Land of Arto (Le Pays d’Arto)
French woman uncovers the dark secrets of her late husband and his native Armenia as she travels to the West Asian nation - deeply affecting drama opens the 78th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]

Companion
Josh tasks his beautiful android girlfriend with a very peculiar mission, in this testing tale of human love, robots and corruption - on various VoD platforms [Read More...]

The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Übermensch demands unborn baby in exchange for Earth-828, in this unusually humanistic, stellar superhero drama - in cinemas on Friday, July 24th [Read More...]

The Naked Gun
Liam Neeson steps into Leslie Nielsen's shoes as Frank Drebin's son, but he's just too sombre for the slapstick devices - in cinemas on Friday, August 1st [Read More...]

The Extraordinary Miss Flower
Iceland songwriter Emiliana Torrini comes across a box of letters, and she uses her art in order to better understand the mysterious woman to whom they are addressed - on VoD on Wednesday, July 30th [Read More...]

Pavements
Off-kilter ode to one of strangest musical phenomena of the 1990s is both chaotic and passionate - on various VoD platforms [Read More...]

Gaku: One Last Round
A Japanese boxer recalls an attack that threatens to sideline his career, and this heartbreaking short follows his progress in recovery - from the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival [Read More...]

Thus Spoke the Wind (Ayspes Asatc Qamin)
Unconventional coming-of-age story from Armenia follows a young boy as he navigates the complexities of rural life and external influences - from the Proxima Competition at Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Tehran, Another View (Tehran, Nama-yi Digar)
Iranian filmmaker blends romance and comedy without lapsing into romcom tropes; he captures a city teeming with life and memory - from the 59th edition of Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

He Ran All The Way
Petty thief holds the family of a beautiful baker hostage inside their own apartment, in John Garfield's very final film role - noir classic shows at Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Chain Reactions
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre becomes a proxy for the nuclear American family and the American Dream, as this superb doc dissects the entrails of the horror genre - from the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]

All That’s Left of You (Illi Baqi Minnak)
The ethics of solidarity are put to the most brutal test conceivable, as a Palestinian family resists Israel's 75-year-old occupation - in cinemas on Friday, February 6th [Read More...]

Thus Spoke the Wind (Ayspes Asatc Qamin)
Bullied boy reconnects with his young and rebellious mother, in this beautifully shot yet muddled tale of community alienation from Armenia - from the Proxima Competition at Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Future Future (Futuro Futuro)
Amnesiac man tries to make sense of his collapsing society, just as a pandemic, a deluge and a meteor hit Southern Brazil - vaguely disjointed yet amusing experimental sci-fi is in the Proxima Competition, at Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Yes (Ken)
Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid crafts a stark, unsettling portrait of artistic compromise and the quiet violence of complicity - from the 59th edition of Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Cinema Jazireh
Desperate Afghan mother resorts to extreme measures in order to find her missing son, in this clumsy tale of two crossdressers - from the Crystal Globe Competition, at Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Bluish
Austrian film conducts a bold exploration of Gen Z ennui and bohemian isolation through the lens of pandemic-inspired slow cinema - from the 59th edition of Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Better Go Mad in the Wild (Raději Zešílet v Divočině)
Life and death become one, as two twin hermits enjoy each other's company, their animals and their farm - Miro Remo's dazzling new creation is in the Crystal Globe Competition, at Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Superman
Lex Luthor kidnaps Superman's dog Krypto, In James Gunn's lightweight and pedestrian addition to the superhero franchise - in cinemas on Friday, July 11th [Read More...]

Outcry (Bidad)
Lesbian singer confronts Iranian censorship with her voice, in a movie that sets out to break (nearly) every conceivable film taboo - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Don’t Call Me Mama (Se Meg)
Devoted teacher falls for asylum seeker of her daughter's age and with a very dangerous secret, in this scrumptious blend of refugee drama and psychosexual thriller - from the Crystal Globe Competition in Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

The Love That Remains (Ástin Sem Eftir Er)
Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason explores a family’s break-up with stoical patience, enticing imagery and a quirky sense of humour - from various festivals [Read More...]

When a River Becomes the Sea (Quan un Riu Esdevé el Mar)
Very long, slow and thoughtful Catalonian drama dissects the anatomy of sexual abuse and gender relations - from the Crystal Globe Competition, in Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Lesbian Space Princess
Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese rocket past convention with Camp, courage and cosmic chaos - Australia animation shows at the 59th edition of Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Rebuilding
Josh O'Connor plays a caravan-dwelling father grappling with poverty, grief and separation - subtle American drama is in the Crystal Globe Competition, in Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Action Item
Paula Ďurinová's essay on burnout and Gen Z in a fast-changing Berlin shows promise yet little substance - from the 59th edition of Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

The Visitor (Svečias)
Lithuanian migrant in Norway struggles to reconnect with his birth nation as he returns in order to sell his family property, in this quiet and observational drama - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Luminous Life (A Vida Luminosa)
Sad and sensitive young man seeks an old flame and instead finds darkness, in this charming nostalgia-fest from Portugal - from the 59th Karlovy vary International Film Festival [Read More...]

Jimmy Jaguar
Obscure demon exerts full control over a motley crew of Hungarian outcasts, in this inventive yet inconsequential horror mockumentary - from the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]

Broken Voices (Sbormistr)
Timid Karolinka struggles to fit into the girls choir, in this slow burn, finely acted and tender Czech-Slovakian drama - from the Crystal Globe Competition of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]

I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash
The Cornish director of Bait and Enys Men returns to the medium of short film with a kaleidoscopic travelogue of the Celtic world - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Divia
Russian aggression defaces Ukrainian landscape and wildlife, in his non-narrative, sensory and hypnotic doc - from the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Peter Hujar’s Day
Ira Sachs' stripped-back homage to iconic photographer is part of a larger appreciation of the NYC queer mythos, as well as an interrogation of a “normal day" - in cinemas on Friday, January 2nd [Read More...]

Out Of Love (Les Enfants Vont Bien)
A mother inexplicably abandons her two small children with her lonely sister, in this French tale of emotional alienation and anti-natalism (a widespread yet rarely discussed phenomenon) - from the Crystal Globe Competition of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
In this incredible but devastating documentary censored by the BBC, Israeli soldiers casually murder doctors, children and civilians - watch it now for free with Channel 4 [Read More...]