Kites (Pipas)
Brazilian filmmaker blends magical realism, autofiction and documentary, in this love letter to the marginalised people of the favelas - from Tribeca [Read More...]

And The Rest Will Follow (O Da Bir Şey Mi)
Turkish filmmaker Pelin Esmer’s first feature in seven years toys with notions of fandom and fanaticism, filmmaking and fabulating - from Tiff Romania [Read More...]

Rains Over Babel (Llueve Sobre Babel)
Spanish-Colombian filmmaker turns purgatory into a gay nightclub where identity and faith collide, in this colourful reimagining of Dante's Inferno - from Tiff Romania [Read More...]

Acts of Love (Kærlighedens Gerninger)
Member of fundamentalist cult sees her life turned upside down with the unexpected arrival of her brother - psychological drama from Denmark is in the Official Competition at Tiff Romania [Read More...]

Heavyweight
Claustrophobic boxing drama roots itself in the Shakespearean and the biblical in order to tell a story about adversity, and it packs a good punch - in cinemas on Friday, January 23rd [Read More...]

The Helsinki Effect
World politicians rewrite history as they sign the Helsinki Accords, in a documentary so refined (with a little helping hand from AI) it looks almost fictionalised - from Tiff Romania [Read More...]

Layla
Arab drag falls in love with a conventional white man, in this exuberant British debut - from Tiff Romania [Read More...]

Peacock (Bin Ich Ect?)
Professional impersonator struggles to find his real self, in this funny, dry, and partly accomplished comedy from Austria - from Tiff Romania [Read More...]

Deaf (Sorda)
Empathetic Spanish drama exposes the tensions between deaf ceramist Ángela and her abled partner Héctor after their first child is born - in cinemas on Friday, September 12th [Read More...]

The Home (Hemmet)
Old age and family trauma are the real villains in Mattias Johansson Skoglund’s dirty gem of a horror movie - live from Tiff Romania [Read More...]

Endless Cookie
Canadian half-brothers Seth and Peter Scriver craft a tapestry of memories, in this whimsical and thoughtful animated doc about family relations - live from Tiff Romania [Read More...]

Fior di Latte
New York playwright is addicted to sniffing perfume in order to keep the memories of a romantic holiday in Italy alive - from Tribeca [Read More...]

The Scout
First-time director captures the thankless routine of a location scout seeking the perfect New York house for a television pilot - from Tribeca [Read More...]

Cielo
Eight-year-old girl from Bolivia searches for heaven in a movie that brings her across the terrains, driven by purpose and love - from London SXSW [Read More...]

Turtle Walker
Satish Bhaskar’s travels along India's coastlines in order to study and survey sea turtles are recounted to director Taira Malaney and her team in an awe-inspiring, meditative documentary - from Raindance [Read More...]

One-Way Ticket to the Other Side
Love, loss, and art are all explored in the visually daring accompaniment to the work of music duo Pornographie Exclusive - from Raindance [Read More...]

Lili Marleen
Hanna Schygulla stars in Fassinder's glitzy WW2 drama about lovers torn by war allegiances, a movie raising tough questions about morality - from ArteKino Classics [Read More...]

S/He Is Still Her/e: The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary
Non-binary, deeply provocative multi-artist from Britain lived a life full of colour and excitement, and held a commitment to her work even after a terminal cancer diagnosis - on VoD on Monday, September 15th [Read More...]

Protein
Tony Burke’s debut feature is an intriguing small-town crime drama with a splash of gross-out violence - British indie is now on VoD [Read More...]

Abducted Files
The truth is out there for a motley crew of bizarre ufologists to see, in this playful found footage mockumentary from Brazil - world premiere takes place at Raindance [Read More...]

The Wanderer
Well-known portrait photographer takes director's chair in order to a create visually impressive short film about death and the afterlife - from the Sydney Film Festival [Read More...]

Srishti
In this slightly psychedelic, reality-warping debut feature, an Indian photographer has to grapple with guilt, and a dark secret in the Himalayas - from Raindance [Read More...]

Izidor
Rediscover the wonder, magic and glory of the world around us as you witness Romania through the eye of an orphaned child - from the Cleveland International Film Festival [Read More...]

Loner
Flirting with folk horror and found footage, this British debut uses diegetic camerawork both to expose and to hide one man lost in the woods, and inside (his own) nature - world premiere takes place at Raindance [Read More...]

Why Not! (Pourquoi Pas!)
Three lovers sharing a house confront obstacles both everyday and extraordinary in Coline Serreau’s dirty classic, a movie well ahead of its time - from ArteKino Classics [Read More...]

Sirius (Szíriusz) 
The origins of the time travel movie come from an unlikely source in this ambitious, entertaining sci-fi adventure from Hungary - watch it now with ArteKino Classics [Read More...]

Darling
Julie Christie stars as the inconsequential party girl and unwitting "fag hag", in John Schlesinger's Swinging Sixties classic - 60th anniversary 4k restoration is in cinemas on Friday, May 30th; on UHD and Blu-ray on Monday, June 16th [Read More...]

Myself When I Am Real
Sensitive short with an eye for detail sympathises with a teenager's struggles to escape her mother's shadow - from the Loas Angeles Asia Pacific Film Festival [Read More...]

Caliber 9 (Milano Calibro 9)
Fernando Di Leo’s hard-boiled poliziottesco shows an Italian underworld ruled by money and greed - from ArteKino Classics [Read More...]

Dead Weight
A hiking survivor turns to practicality in the face of oblivion, in this thought-provoking short - from 2025 Dances with Films [Read More...]

The Young Mother’s Home (Jeunes Meres)
BEST SCRIPT WINNER AT CANNES: four troubled young mothers must decide whether to keep their babies, in the Dardenne Brothers' humanistic new creation (and their best film in many years) - on VoD on Thursday, October 3rd [Read More...]

Caravan
Czech woman takes her Down Syndrome son on a road trip across Italy, until bouts of fatigue begin to take their tolls on the two people - from the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes [Read More...]

The Mastermind
A miscast Josh O'Connor plays Mooney, a novice criminal who tries to pull off the perfect art heist...and fails miserably at it - on Mubi in December [Read More...]

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (Das Verschwinden des Josef Mengele)
Russian director dissects the heart of the unrepentant "Angel of Death", in this disturbingly vivid biopic - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Die, My Love
Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson star in this loud tale of failed motherhood and female insanity - on VoD on Friday, January 24th [Read More...]

Romeria
Eighteen-year-old Marina retraces the footsteps of her biological parents in Galicia (Northwestern Spain) - Carla Simon's heartbreakingly honest, semi-autobiographical new film shows in various festivals [Read More...]

Heads or Tails? (Testa o Croce?)
John C.Reilly plays the John Wayne type, in this sluggish Italian-American co-production about outlaws running for their lives - from the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes [Read More...]

Homebound
Two Indian friends rely on each other through poverty and pain... until a mere cough throws their relationship into question - in cinemas on Friday, September 12th [Read More...]

Resurrection (Kuang Ye Shi Dai)
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Woman and Child (Zan o Bacheh)
Mother contends with her wild son and duplicitous fiance, in this complex Iranian web of family intrigue (with more twists than a cheap garden hose) - live from the Official Competition of the 78th Festival de Cannes [Read More...]

Love Me Tender
Vicky Krieps gives a brave performance in an otherwise spineless drama about a queer woman fighting for custody of her estranged little son - from Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

The Last One for the Road (Le Città di Pianura)
A pair of drunken rogues take a shy student on a road trip from hell, in this optimistic tragicomedy from Italy - live from Cannes [Read More...]

Sentimental Value (Affeksjonsverdi)
GRAND PRIX WINNER AT CANNES: Seventy-year-old filmmaker is hellbent on finishing his first movie in a decade, as Joachim's Trier comments on the complex relationship between artistry and humanity - in cinemas on Friday, December 26th [Read More...]

The History of Sound
In the New England of the 1910s, two folk singers fall in love, sing and part, in a British-American co-production as boring as it sounds - in cinemas on Friday, January 23rd [Read More...]

Aisha Can’t Fly Away
Much like an ostrich, this Somalian heroine is stuck in a land full of crime thugs, nasty employers and degradation - filthy genius Pan-Arabic production premieres at Cannes [Read More...]

Eleanor the Great
In Scarlett Johansson's sugary holocaust comedy, a nonagenarian passes off her late friend's stories as her own, with inevitable consequences - in cinemas on Friday, December 12th [Read More...]

Fuori
Middle-aged writer released from prison finds comfort in an former inmate, just as she seeks to rekindle her life - Goliarda Sapienza's uneven biopic is in Cannes's Official Competition [Read More...]

Untamable (Indomptables)
Police officer employs extreme intimidation tactics at work and also at home, in this honest, funny and enlightening drama from Cameroon (the concept of masculinity is guaranteed to ruffle some feathers in Europe) - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Once Upon a Time in Gaza
In this Middle Eastern Tarantino-esque thriller, an actor swears vengeance for a pal cruelly gunned down (while prophesising an end to the genocide) - from the Sarajevo Film Festival [Read More...]

Meteors
Two rowdy lads get into trouble with the law, putting their future into uncertainty, in a bland and uneventful French drama - from Cannes [Read More...]