Beyond Silence
Two women from different generations clash as they find incompatible ways of handling sexual assault and trauma - Dutch film was shortlisted for this year’s Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film [Read More...]

The Pearl Comb
Victorian sorceress-turned-doctor finds the cure for tuberculosis, in this bewitching tale of mermaids and female empowerment - from the short list of the Action Live Shorts Academy Awards [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...]

Aiming to the Top – Accra Underground 
Turkish filmmaker captures young Ghanaian rappers as they seek redemption through music, in this observational type of documentary - from Raindance [Read More...]

This Is Your Captain Speaking
Retired air pilot exposes invisible killer very few people knew, in this courageous British documentary - from Raindance [Read More...]

Dirty Boy
Reclusive schizophrenic has to flee a creepy cult after being framed for a murder, in this British debut blending sci-fi, horror and... the von Trapp family - from the 33rd edition of Raindance [Read More...]

The Last Grail Hunter
First-time British director flirts with horror and sci-fi, in a confusing story set in a post-apocalyptical London and its surroundings - from Raindance [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...]

Two to One (Zwei zu Eins)
Sandra Hüller plays a woman looting bags of (mostly worthless) cash, in this GDR-set comedy with flavours of Goodbye Lenin - in cinemas on Friday, May 2nd [Read More...]

Treading Water
Freedom proves just too much to handle, in this British drama about the brutal realities of the disenfranchised working class - in cinemas on Friday, April 25th [Read More...]

The Summer with Carmen
Metatextual queer drama from Greece celebrates male virility and Athens, while also referencing a familiar classic - on VoD on Monday, April 7th [Read More...]

Nickel Boys
Two African Americans sent to a brutal juvenile institution see their dreams and aspirations destroyed, in this hypnotic yet uneven drama - in cinemas on Friday, January 3rd [Read More...]

Blink Twice
Pervy millionaire (Channing Tatum) lures young women into his sun-soaked, drug-fuelled Mexican villa, and subjects them to horrors a la Ari Aster and Jordan Peele - in cinemas on Friday, August 23rd [Read More...]

Janet Planet
Long summer at home tests mother-daughter relationship, in this impressive American drama focused on the unsaid, the insinuated and the minute details - in cinemas on Friday, July 19th [Read More...]

Handling the Undead (Håndtering av Udøde)
Norwegian director reinvents the zombie movie, replacing gore with tragic and decaying existences - from Sundance London [Read More...]

Kneecap
Irish-singing, insult-hurling, drug-taking and politically incendiary hip-hop band from Belfast earn an adrenaline-inducing piece of autofiction - on VoD on Monday, October 7th [Read More...]

Baldiga – Unlocked Heart (Baldiga – Entsichertes Herz)
Queer photographer from Germany openly exposed his life in a bid to remove HIV stigma from generations to come - from the Panorama Dokumente section of the Berlinale [Read More...]

Sasquatch Sunset
Writer-director brother duo Nathan and Daniel Zellner conjure into existence American folklore creature, the sasquatch, most commonly known as Big Foot - unbelievably realistic film is on VoD on August 5th [Read More...]

Love Lies Bleeding
The British director of psychological horror St Maud crosses the pond in order to create an equally convincing (and violent) tale of queer love - now also on Netflix [Read More...]

In the Land of Brothers
Three members of an Afghan family start afresh as refugees in neighbouring Iran, only to find out that international fraternity is an elusive concept - from the 58th edition of Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Femme
Drag queen revenge thriller portrays the consequences of extreme toxic masculinity, in this flawed yet endearingly dark British debut feature - on VoD on Monday, January 22nd [Read More...]

Slow (Tu Man Nieko Neprimeni)
Dirty gem from Lithuania reveals that asexuality does not preclude tenderness and intimacy - in cinemas on Friday, May 24th [Read More...]

I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me (No Voy a Pedirle a Nadia que me Crea)
Dark and stylised Spanish-Mexican thriller about a young man captured by the mafia paints Barcelona as a city you never saw before - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

All of Us Strangers
Gentle queer romance descends into elaborate trip down memory lane, as British filmmaker Andrew Haigh blurs the lines between the physical, the imaginary and the supernatural - on VoD on Monday, April 8th [Read More...]

Apolonia, Apolonia
Danish documentarist portrays the iridescent life of French figurative painter Apolonia Sokol - from the 67th edition of the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Kokomo City
Fresh, frank and unapologetic documentary about four trans women was directed by a trans music-producer-turned-filmmaker struggling to make ends meet - on VoD on Monday, September 11th [Read More...]

Talk to Me
Australian supernatural horror about creepy hand that conjures spirits back into life recycles old genre devices to great results, and has the potential of establishing a film franchise - on VoD on Monday, September 18th [Read More...]

The Immensity (L’Immensita)
Prepubescent girl confronts a very conservative Rome of the 1970s in order to become a boy - trans drama starring Penelope Cruz and Luana Giuliani is on VoD on Monday, October 2nd [Read More...]

Legua
Touching Portuguese drama with a documentary-feel reflects upon the attachment to rural roots, and inescapability of ageing and death - live from Cannes [Read More...]

Beau is Afraid
The director of Hereditary and Midsommar returns with an equally repulsive and mesmerising horror, starring a terrifyingly unhinged Joaquin Phoenix - in cinemas on Friday, May 19th [Read More...]

Young Soul Rebels
More than three decades after its original release, Julien Isaac's dirty classic remains just as fresh and exciting in its portrayal of black queer Britain - in cinemas Friday, April 28th [Read More...]

Infinity Pool
A couple barricades themselves in a plush Eastern European resort, before being ambushed by a sex-crazed and maniacal nymph - Brandon Cronenberg's horrific new creation is in cinemas on Friday, March 24th [Read More...]

Blue Jean
Closeted Lesbian PE teacher wrestles with Section 28, in this realistic drama set in the year the homophobic legislation was introduced - impressive debut is now on various VoD platforms (including Netflix) [Read More...]