The Rye Horn (O Corno)
Maria has to juggle seafood harvesting, midwifery and illegal abortions, in this dark and sullen drama set during the 1970s in rural Galicia, Northwestern Spain - Golden Shell winner premieres at the 67th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

The Beast (La Bête)
Bertrand Bonello's drama about two would-be lovers bearing the same name is intellectually rigorous as well as stylistically dazzling, and perhaps his most audacious work to date - from Rotterdam [Read More...]

Puan
Philosophy professor fights to preserve his position and his legacy, in Argentinean lighthearted comedy with distinct political flavours - from the Turin Film Festival [Read More...]

The Successor (Le Successeur)
The artistic director of a famous fashion house in Paris returns to Canada for his estranged father's funeral, only to uncover a dirty secret he could never fathom - bizarre yet strangely gripping crime drama premieres at the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Un Amor
Isabel Coixet delivers a superb meditation on the contradictory sentiments of love, compassion, contempt and complicity, set in the rural, mountainous region of Rioja - from the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival/ 31st Raindance Film Festival [Read More...]

Sultana’s Dream (El Sueño de la Sultana)
Young Spanish woman who no longer feels safe in her own country travels to India in search of a Utopian society ruled by women - animation premieres at the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

The Practice (La Práctica)
Yoga instructor has to juggle a divorce and a bizarre knee injury, in this hilarious deadpan comedy about unreliable memories, reconnections and, er, shattered mindfulness - Chilean film shows at the 41st Turin Film Festival [Read More...]

A Silence (Un Silence)
Belgian feature looks at a married couple, particularly a wife, and exposes the fragile nature of their relationship in shocking, scintillating detail - live from the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Ex-Husbands (aka Men of Divorce)
Four men in the same family and of the three generations grapple with the trappings of heterosexual matrimony, this very lighthearted and conventional American romcom - from the 41st Turin Film Festival [Read More...]

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Deeply sensory piece of slow cinema explores the life of a Black American woman in the Deep South, as her legacy is carried across four generations - from the 67th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

MMXX
Cristi Puiu's new creation is a highly conversational, cryptic and esoteric examination of a Romania crippled by corruption, Covid and micro-aggressions of all sorts - live from the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Socialist Realism (El Realismo Socialista)
Unfinished satirical drama about convulsing Chilean workers on the eve of the 1973 military coup gets a new lease of life 50 years later - from the 41st Turin Film Festival [Read More...]

Fingernails
Riz Ahmed and Jessie Buckley star in this excruciatingly painful romcom about two "love instructors" who measure romance by ripping out their clients' fingernails - in cinemas on Friday, November 3rd [Read More...]

They Shot the Piano Player (Dispararon al Pianista)
Animated documentary investigates the disappearance of "Brazil's greatest pianist", revealing the murderous tactics of CIA-backed Operation Condor, and the dire consequences for Latin America - from the 67th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

The Boy and the Heron
Co-founder of Studio Ghibli crafts a semi-autobiographical animation populated by an orphaned boy, nosey old ladies, and angry, duplicitous birds of all sorts - in cinemas on Tuesday, December 26th [Read More...]

Kalak
Young nurse with a dirty secret finds little joy in the company of his own family, instead seeking solace in broken relationships with his patients - Greenland-set, cold-hearted drama shows at the Turin Film Festival [Read More...]

A Day and a Half (En Dag och en Halv)
Swedish hostage drama morphs into confessional car journey, but this potentially gripping story is crippled by a poor script - out now on Netflix [Read More...]

Arthur & Diana
French movie about two siblings on a road trip deftly bridges the barrier between documentary and fiction - from the 48th Toronto International Film Festival [Read More...]

On the Pulse (Vivant)
Based on the filmmaker’s own experience as a news agency intern, French drama offers an intimate picture of the daily pressures both driving and afflicting investigative reporters - from the 80th Venice Film Festival [Read More...]

The Red Suitcase
A two-day journey reveals the oppressive nightmare haunting Nepal, in this slow-burn drama blending elements of horror, politics and philosophy – from the 80th Venice Film Festival. [Read More...]

Paradise is Burning (Paradiset Brinner)
An absent mother leaves her three daughters to fend for themselves, and find solace and joy in each other's company - thoughtful Swedish drama premieres in the 80th Venice Film Festival [Read More...]

Dormitory (Yurt)
Amidst mounting tensions between religious and secular Turks, a teenager finds himself trapped between two worlds - from the 80th Venice Film Festival [Read More...]

Touched
Provocative and unabashed German film portrays the sexually intensive relationship between plus-size model and a paraplegic dancer - Best Performance Leopard winner at Locarno [Read More...]

A Life on the Farm
The long-lost, seemingly crude and tasteless home movies of Charles Carson are in reality bursting with tenderness and poetry - dirty British doc is in cinemas on Friday, September 8th [Read More...]

Hesitation Wound (Tereddüt Çizgisi)
A Turkish lawyer has to contend with a number of moral dilemmas as she defends a vulnerable client, while also grappling with the fate of her vegetative mother - from the 3rd Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire Humaniste Cherche Suicidaire Consentant)
Young vampire is just too sensitive to kill, in this sad, hopeful and luminous addition to a well-worn genre - live from Venice Days [Read More...]

The Dive
A deep-sea diving journey in Malta turns into a nightmare for two young sisters as one of them becomes trapped by a landslide - survival thriller is in cinemas on Friday, August 25th [Read More...]

The Oceans Are the Real Continents (Los Océanos son Los Verdaderos Continentes)
Italian director captures five Cubans of three different generations as they patiently dwell in a town where "time doesn't exist" - bewitching piece of slow cinema opens Venice Days [Read More...]

Apocalypse Clown
Three failed clowns get together in order to forcibly draw some laughter, joy and blood from those who stand on their path - clumsy Irish comedy in cinemas on Friday, September 1st [Read More...]

La Ronde
Viennese men and women engage in a vertiginous battle for love and lust, in this charming and unusual French anthology - in cinemas on Friday, September 8th, as part of the Save Curzon Mayfair campaign [Read More...]

Afire (Roter Himmel)
Christian Petzold's new creation is an inventive and profound meditation on the deceitful machinations of the creative mind - now on all major VoD platforms [Read More...]

Critical Zone (Montagheye Bohrani)
Drug dealer offers comfort, redemption and liberation to some of the most vulnerable people of Tehran - ultra-subversive, scream-out-loud Iranian movie wins the Golden Leopard at the 76th Locarno Film Festival; showing at Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Dreaming & Dying (Hao Jiu Bu Jian) 
Bad omens, unrequited love, and the deep-sea mythical rise above the shoreline for a trio of reuniting friends in Nelson Yeo’s surreal Singaporean drama - from the 76th edition of the Locarno Film Festival.   [Read More...]

Dammi
British actor and rapper Riz Ahmed excels as a man grappling with his clashing cultural identities, in French-Algerian director’s bold new film - from the 3rd Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]

La Vedova Nera
Italian teen is caught in a fantasy world of murder, sex and cinema, in this Franco-Italian pithy and vibrant tribute to giallo - from the Pardi di Domani section. of the 76th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]

Remember, Broken Crayons Colour Too
Deeply poetic Swiss documentary about Jamaican trans woman excels in inventiveness - from the Pardi di Doman section of the 76th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]

Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere (Nuit obscure – Au Revoir Ici, n’Importe Où)
Moroccan prepubescent teens fight for survival on the deserted streets of Spanish exclave Melilla, in this cold and distant Swiss-French documentary - from the 76th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]

What Remains
Stellan Skarsgard and Andrea Riseborough star in psychological crime drama about serial killer in a Scandinavian psychiatric hospital - from the Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]

Baan
Two tormented young women bond through their afflictions and pains, in this unusually structured Portuguese drama - from the Best of Festivals section of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Me and the Beasts (Las Bestia y Yo)
Venezuelan drama investigates the crippling desire to create a world of destruction, and the power of music in a damaged world - from the 76th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]

Patagonia
Italian teen dreams of eloping to a distant land with a slightly older man, in this twisted queer coming-of-age drama - from the 76th edition of the Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]

Stepne
Ukrainian man returns to his precarious countryside village in order to tend his sick mother, in this beautiful yet monotonous riff on departure - from the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Permanent Picture (La Imatge Permanent)
Gently subversive and achingly realistic Spanish drama investigates the impermanence of time, sentiments, and the complex relation between the image and the subject - from REC, Tarragona International Film Festival [Read More...]

The Vanishing Soldier
Young Israeli soldier gets caught in the inescapable trappings of a society defined by military belligerence - from the Official Competition of the 76th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]

Do not Expect too Much from the End of the World (Nu Astepta Prea Mult de la Sfârsitul Lumii)
Raju Jude presents his unsightly, messy and completely bonkers new movie, a caustic satire of a Romania intoxicated by film wizardry - in cinemas on Friday, March 6th [Read More...]

Manga d’Terra
Young Cape Verdean mother migrates to Lisbon in search of financial opportunities, but singing morna becomes her only reliable companion - from the 76th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]

Sweet Dreams
Three very different women fight for their perceived home, in this exquisite allegory of Dutch colonial relations in Indonesia at the turn of the century - from the 76th Locarno Film festival [Read More...]

Yannick
Artist and audience forge a toxic, love-hate relationship, in Quentin Dupieux's dirty, hilarious tribute to the (movie) theatre - in cinemas on Friday, April 5th [Read More...]

Slimane
LGBT+ people are hunted down and forced to live in hiding, in a not-so-distant Germany - moody piece of slow cinema premieres at the Pardi di Domani section of the 76th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]

Paradise Europe (Du bist so Wunderbar)
Young Brazilian gay man grapples the strange idiosyncrasies of Berliners as he desperately seeks accommodation - from the Pardi di Domani section of the Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]