Lida Bach attended the 24th edition of the biggest film festival of Romania; she reveals the prizes, the special honours, and some highlights from the event's vast and colourful programme [Read More...]
Fabrice du Welz’s police thriller offers a gritty, fictionalised account of Belgian serial killer, serial rapist, and child molester Marc Dutroux's case - from the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival [Read More...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Professional impersonator struggles to find his real self, in this funny, dry, and partly accomplished comedy from Austria - from Tiff Romania [Read More...]
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...]
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...]
European whims are shattered into pieces, in Oliver Laxe's hauntingly beautiful and disturbing allegory of life on the edge - showing at various film festivals [Read More...]
Body horror reimagining of Cinderella is a visceral and nauseating delight that cannot hide its cynical nature - from Tiff Romania/ also available on VoD [Read More...]
Biopic of the German filmmaker reveals an aggressive and manipulative woman unrepentant of her Nazi past, yet it fails to make any particularly new reflections and revelations - from Tiff Romania/ on VoD [Read More...]
The director of Berlin Alexanderplatz returns with another bold literary adaptation set in present-day Germany (this time it's Shakespeare’s Richard III), and he deserves praise for that - from Raindance and Tiff Romania [Read More...]
GOLDEN BEAR WINNER - Norwegian teen falls in love with her teacher and puts her infatuation to paper, but there could be dear consequences for the unsuspecting adult - honest and warm drama is in cinemas on Friday, August 1st [Read More...]
While retaining his anti-cinema aesthetic, Radu Jude turns away from the absurd into the sad and profound - political drama about guilt and comfort is in cinemas on Friday, October 31st [Read More...]
Clever granny evades old-age "colony" established by Brazil's authoritarian government, in this gently dystopian drama set in a terrifyingly near future - from various festivals [Read More...]
Michel Franco's new creation, about an illegal Mexican immigrant in the US, is less violent, more mature and rounded than New Order - showing at various film festivals [Read More...]
A small confrontation at a movie set blows into unhinged anger, conspiracy, and racism, in Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay's sly drama - from Tiff Romania [Read More...]
Cape Verdean woman abandons her baby daughter on a volcanic island, in this fiery tale of failed motherhood and reconnection - from Tiff Romania [Read More...]
Energetic elderly woman with dementia moves to the old people's home of her choice, where she movingly picks up fragments of her life - deeply humanistic drama shows at Tiff Romania [Read More...]
A funeral procession takes an unplanned walk across the countryside, in a sensitive and reflective drama evoking the literary form - from Tiff Romania [Read More...]
Aspiring rugby player discovers his writing talent after falling for a literature-loving, middle-class girl - Ignas Miskinis’s impressive feature shows at Tiff Romania [Read More...]
Gross, crude and irreverent sci-fi comedy drags us back to the 2000s, while men and women treat each other like s*** - from Tiff Romania [Read More...]
A solitary Ukrainian astronaut desperately seeks to reach the only other surviving human, in this tasteful blend of survival drama and dark comedy - from Tiff Romania [Read More...]
Marianne Jean-Baptiste is the bitter wife, mum and sister from hell, in Mike Leigh's stormy family drama - from Tiff Romania/ on VoD on Monday, March 31st [Read More...]
Joshua Oppenheimer's first incursion into the world of fiction is a pointless and pretentious post-apocalyptical potboiler - at Tiff Romania/ on Apple TV [Read More...]
Highly conversational Norwegian drama riffs on the tribulations of casual sex and cancer (it just doesn't show much!) - in cinemas Friday, August 15th [Read More...]
Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of William Burroughs's early short novel (starring a drug-addicted, randy Daniel Craig) is an anodyne blend of strawberry fantasy and vanilla erotica - from Tiff Romania/ also available on VoD [Read More...]
BEST INTERNATIONAL PICTURE OSCAR WINNER: In a career-defining performance, Fernanda Torres (with a helping hand from her mum) establishes Walter Salles's latest film as the ultimate Brazilian dictatorship drama - on VoD on Monday, April 21st [Read More...]
Junky jockey watches his life crumble after a freak accident takes him off horse racing - wacky Argentinian comedy shows at Karlovy Vary [Read More...]
Big city pushes young man battling severe mental health issues further into the abysm, in this tremendous Turkish drama - from Tiff Romania [Read More...]
In this non-linear exploration of grief, two sisters stay true to their bond through good times and bad - Lithuanian drama shows at Tiff Romania [Read More...]
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 - on various VoD platforms [Read More...]
A teenager bonds with her father, but his criminal past catches up with them - uneven mobster flick from France is on VoD on Monday, September 8th [Read More...]
In his cinematic dissertation of grief, Rúnar Rúnarsson focuses his attention on two young women shedding tears for the same person each in their own way - humbling Icelandic drama is on various VoD platforms [Read More...]
In this impressive and colourful adaptation of a Nobel Prize winning book, a Polish woman must face the consequences of her decisions - from Tiff Romania/also on VoD [Read More...]
A tale of two cultures: this visually astounding and impressively elegant Colombian film portrays the encounter of a German explorer and an indigenous warrior - from Tiff Romania [Read More...]
