Stars Await Us
A Chinese man in Siberia searches for his long-lost girlfriend in this slow, epic drama — live from Tallinn [Read More...]

Armugan
A Spanish "finisher" helps people to depart from this world, in poetic movie raising philosophical and ethical questions about life and death - from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Road to Eden (Akyrky Koch)
Old writer seeks to reconnect with his past as he senses his imminent departure, in this very fine piece of slow cinema from Kyrgyzstan - live from the Tallinn Black Night Film Festival [Read More...]

Sanremo
A touching Slovenian drama set in a nursing home explores the fragility of memory and the fleeting nature of love – from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Three
Delightful Russian rom-com shows a Russian sensibility little known to Western audiences more used to the country's raw and bleak cinema - from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

On the Water (Vee Peal)
Estonians hungry for cinema fill up the nation's largest theatre in order to savour the local produce: a vanilla comedy - from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Penultimate (Den næstsidste)
A deep dive into the darkest side of the human soul, this is a difficult yet rewarding experience — live from Tallinn [Read More...]

Fear (Strah)
Widow and black refugee strike up a romance, thereby stirring up a hornet's nest in a tiny coastal community - Bulgarian comedy premieres at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Fortuna – The Girl and the Giants (Fortuna)
Fantasy and reality collide to chilling effect in this moving Italian arthouse drama — live from Tallinn [Read More...]

Sign Painter (Pilseta Pie Upes)
A Latvian sign painter attempts to remain neutral during WW2 as his country grapples with enemies on both sides, and allegiances become increasingly deceitful - from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Enemies (Doshmanan)
This melancholy Iranian portrait of middle aged loneliness is full of questions and no easy answers — playing at Tallinn Film Festival. [Read More...]

Gracious Night (Yo Armahtaa)
Highly conversational Finnish drama proposes a spontaneous answer to the challenges of lockdown - live from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Model Olimpia (Modell Olimpia)
A mother and son relationship unlike any other is presented in this carefully controlled and strange German film — live from Tallinn! [Read More...]

Madly in Life (Une Vie Démente)
The complexity of living with dementia is expertly caught in this bittersweet drama-comedy — live from Tallinn! [Read More...]

Asia
Israeli drama directed by a young woman investigates a very unusual and tragic mother-daughter relationship - from the UK Jewish Film Festival; and Curzon Home Cinema [Read More...]

A Common Crime (Un crimen común)
Argentinean drama about young boy ‘disappeared’ by the police is a universal criticism of a society rife with systemic inequality and injustice - on VoD on Friday, April 9th [Read More...]

Striding Into The Wind
Chinese road movie about a cranky film student who sets off from Beijing to Inner Mongolia offers insight into the country's vastness, but is sorely lacking in excitement - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Rose: A Love Story
A couple living in the middle of nowhere while dealing with a strange illness see their winter wonderland turn into a freezing hell in this British psychological horror - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Relic
With this small-scale Australian family debut, director Natalie Erika James stakes her claim amidst the other auteurs of contemporary horror - on Shudder on Tuesday, May 11th [Read More...]

Possessor
The second feature by David Cronenberg's son is a terrifying and psychedelic sci-fi starring Andrea Riseborough, and one of the best films of the year - now also available on Shudder [Read More...]

Any Crybabies Around? (Nakuko Wa Ineega)
A man attempts to reconnect with his daughter, in this all-Japanese tale of separation set against a very peculiar baby-scaring demon festivity - from San Sebastian [Read More...]

Falling
Viggo Mortensen's directorial debut portrays the declining health of a deeply dislikeable man and the associated, deep-seated family tensions - in cinemas on Friday, December 4th [Read More...]

The Great Fellove (El Gran Fellove)
Learn and laugh along with this audiophile documentary directed by Matt Dillon, which scats through the history of Afro-Cuban Jazz and its peoples - from San Sebastian [Read More...]

Simple Passion (Passion Simple)
French drama eschews traditional male gaze cinema in favour of an intense, all-consuming affair shown from the perspective of an older mistress - out on VoD on Monday, May 31st [Read More...]

The Father
An unflinching look at the reality of advanced dementia, this British movie starring Anthony Hopkins manages to capture both the confusion of the affected and the burden of those nearest to them - on Netflix on Sunday, July 17th; also available on other platforms [Read More...]

Summer 85 (Été 85)
François Ozon captures the spirit of 1985 in a tale of a doomed young romance that outshines the summer sun - in cinemas Friday, October 23rd. [Read More...]

Crazy, Not Insane
Meet the real-life Norman Bateses, in this peculiar American documentary about multiple personality - live from Venice [Read More...]

Nomadland
Older Americans dwelling in their own vehicles travel the country in search of employment, in this poignant real-life drama based on the eponymous book - in cinemas on Monday, May 17th (as cinemas finally reopen) [Read More...]

In Between Dying (Sepelenmis Ölümler Arasinda)
Slow and meditative drama from Azerbaijan reflects on life, death, chance encounters and fleeting connections - live from Venice [Read More...]

30 Coins (30 Monedas) - Episode 1
Renowned Spanish filmmaker premieres his new fantasy-comedy HBO series in an out-of-competition slot at the Venice Film Festival, offering audiences at the event a break from a far more stern film selection [Read More...]

Run, Hide, Fight
Highly formulaic and poor-taste American high school shooting drama both glamourises and fetishises violence to the extreme - on VoD on Sunday, August 15th [Read More...]

The Macaluso Sisters (Le Sorelle Macaluso)
A tragic death has an irreparable impact on the lives of five very different sisters growing up in Palermo, in this gentle and moving Italian drama - on VoD on Friday, December 18th [Read More...]

Wife of a Spy (Supai No Tsuma)
The latest creation by Japan's most versatile filmmmaker is a highly conventional and mostly confusing "spy" drama originally conceived for television - live from Venice [Read More...]

Notturno
Highly artistic and contemplative documentary registers the plight of people in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Kurdistan - on Mubi from Friday, March 5th [Read More...]

Sun Children (Khorshid)
Iranian film about a school for homeless children has its heart at the right spot and its script all over the place, stringing together a myriad of cumbersome premises - live from Venice [Read More...]

The World to Come
Period Lesbian drama set in the US and filmed in Transylvania is exuberant in its photography, supported by a simple yet powerful script - now on all major VoD platforms [Read More...]

Gaza Mon Amour
Charming and sensitive Palestinian movie finds romance at old age in a very conservative and impoverished society - live from Venice [Read More...]

Sweat
In his second film, Swedish director Magnus von Horn presents a decadent, depraved and suspenseful look at celebrity and fandom - on VoD on Monday, August 23rd; on Mubi on Friday, September 17th [Read More...]

Be Good or Be Gone
Two criminals are released from Mount Joy to a Dublin that has both celebrated and ruined their lives, in this self-funded and convincing indie from Ireland - on Tuesday, April 13th on various platforms [Read More...]

Charlatan
Biopic of Czechoslovakian healer who treated both commoners and prominent politicians offers insight into the life of a very peculiar practitioner - now also available on BFI Player [Read More...]

Berlin Alexanderplatz
Franz Biberkopf becomes an African refugee struggling to settle into modern-day Germany, in this astounding adaptation of Alfred Döblin's classic - live from the Berlinale [Read More...]

My Little Sister (Schwesterlein)
Dying on stage? As a young theatre actor succumbs to a very aggressive cancer, his twin sister resorts to desperate measures in order to instil happiness and meaning into his life - live from the Berlinale [Read More...]

Minamata
Corporate greed poisons a small community of Japan, in this real-life drama about environmental pollution and international solidarity, starring Johnny Depp - on IMDB TV on Monday, January 14th; also available on other platforms [Read More...]

Show me the Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall
Photographer Jim Marshall snapped some of the most indelible portraits of the 1960, in documentary capturing both the young artist and the old veteran - in cinemas Friday, January 31st [Read More...]

Thirty (Dreissig)
In this auspicious German drama, there are hardly any reasons to celebrate as Övünç enters the fourth decade of his life - watch it for free with ArteKino during the month of December only [Read More...]

Kalel, 15
HIV-positive teen grapples with a dysfunctional family and society, in this extremely bleak yet sobering drama from the Phillipines - live from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

In the Strange Pursuit of Laura Durand
Two Greek friends in search of an elusive porn star from the 1990s embark on a dazzling journey peppered with imagination, allegory and copious filmic ruses - from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Girl with no Mouth (Peri)
Four deformed children fight for their survival in a dystopian post-apocalyptic society, in unusual kids' horror/fantasy movie from Turkey - live from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Coming Home Again
Son abandons his job and career in order to take care of terminally ill mother, in extremely powerful and intimate meditation on family values and death - from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Muscle
Craig Fairbrass stars as a highly manipulative personal trainer, in this greasy British thriller set in Newcastle - now on all major VoC platforms [Read More...]

Scattered Night (Heuteojin Bam)
A not so happy family. A little girl and her brother must decide which parent each of them wants to live with when their mum and dad split up – from the London Korean Film Festival [Read More...]

Ieoh Island (Iodo)
An acquitted murder suspect visits the island birthplace of his alleged victim to learn about the latter’s life and the strange, ritualistic, matriarchal society that still exists there – from the London Korean Film Festival [Read More...]

Height Of The Wave (Pa-go)
The arrival of a new police chief on an island poses difficult questions about an orphaned teenage girl – from the London Korean Film Festival [Read More...]

The Pool
Sink your teeth into THIS! A man and his injured girlfriend are trapped on the bottom of a drained swimming pool with a crocodile – on Shudder in July [Read More...]

Exit
A skilled climber must help his trapped family escape from a skyscraper surrounded by a rising cloud of toxic gas – from the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF), on now [Read More...]

Monos
New feature from Colombian filmmaker Alejandro Landes conjures up a psychedelic coming-of-age story, and a thriller with a generous dash of wackiness - now available on VoD [Read More...]

White Snake (Baishe: Yuanqi)
A young man falls in love with a demon resembling alternately a woman and a giant snake, in this Chinese animated feature – now on Amazon Prime [Read More...]

Wet Season
A Singaporean schoolboy becomes obsessed with his Mandarin language teacher – from the BFI London Film Festival and the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF). [Read More...]

The Irishman
De Niro and Pesci are back in an epic countering on the reminiscence of vintage Scorsese and with an unexpectedly sombre vision of sin - now available on Netflix [Read More...]

Filmfarsi
Deep-dive into pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema, a world awash with sex and violence, in this doc revealing a new side to the misunderstood nation - from the Cambridge Film Festival [Read More...]

I Lost My Body (J'ai Perdu Mon Corps)
A severed hand searches for its body while a boy searches for the girl who he only knows from the sound of her voice in this French animated feature – from the BFI London Film Festival then in cinemas on Friday, November 22nd and on Netflix from Friday, November 29th [Read More...]

Coup 53
Veteran filmmaker Taghi Amirani investigates British involvement in the 1953 Iranian coup d'etat - in virtual cinemas across the UK, Ireland, the US and Canada from Friday, August 21st [Read More...]

Ghost Town Anthology (Répertoire des villes disparues)
The dead have returned in order to haunt this sleepy Quebecois village, where the locals lead a stupefyingly mundane existence - on Mubi in April and May [Read More...]

Ready or Not
Grace has to hide from her murderous in-laws immediately after her luxurious wedding, in this American blend of black comedy and horror - now available on VoD [Read More...]

Echo (Bergmál)
This surprisingly sentimental entry from Rúnar Rúnnarsson is an epic ode to his Icelandic homeland in equal parts funny and sad - now on Mubi [Read More...]

Mari
Starring acclaimed dancer Bobbi Jene Smith, this is the tale of a London dancer caught between the beauty of choreography and the constraints of reality - in cinemas and VoD [Read More...]

Ice on Fire
Doc produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio investigates novel ways of sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere - live from Cannes [Read More...]

Nina Wu
Aspiring actress has to grapple with lewd and manipulative filmmaker, in cleverly multilayered psychological drama from China - on Mubi on Tuesday, July 13th [Read More...]

Lux Aeterna
The enfant terrible of French cinema is back, this time with a tortuous and torturous featurette about the menacing (male) filmmaker and the vulnerable actress; featuring Charlotte Gainsbourg - on Arrow Films on June 3rd [Read More...]

Forman vs Forman
Documentary about the late Czech director investigates the life and work of a very subversive artist who challenged the Communist regime and found professional fulfilment in Hollywood - live from Cannes [Read More...]

Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria)
Pedro Almodóvar bares his soul in his most personal movie yet, about an ageing and ailing filmmaker searching for inspiration inside his own frail existence - now available on VoD (on Mubi in June/July) [Read More...]

Atlantics (Atlantique)
Senegalese film by first-time director blends an exquisite photography with strange traditions and eerie superstitions - in cinemas on Friday, November 29th [Read More...]

Bacurau
Brazilian filmmakers deliver ultra-violent and wacky sci-fi ornated with historical allusions and spiced with political flavours - on Mubi on Friday, May 27th [Read More...]

The Crossing (Guo Chun Tian)
Border crossings of no return. A Chinese teenage girl who regularly travels from Shenzhen into Hong Kong becomes involved with a gang smuggling iPhones across the frontier - streaming between February and May as part of the Chinese Cinema Season UK [Read More...]

Brief Story from the Green Planet (Breve Historia del Planeta Verde)
Argentinean film about three LGBT friends who encounter an alien at granny's has echoes of Alfonso Cuaron and Nicolas Roeg - winner of the Teddy Bear award in Berlin [Read More...]

A Tale of Three Sisters (Kiz Kardesler)
Parable about departure and family allegiances set in a rural village on the Anatolian mountains of Turkey has a stupefying cinematography - live from Berlin [Read More...]

Out Stealing Horses (Ut Og Stjæle Hester)
Meditative Norwegian drama investigates the ephemerality of life and of human relationships, and the necessity of letting go of the past - live from the Berlinale [Read More...]

By the Grace of God (Grâce à Dieu)
Francois Ozon's 18th feature film is by far his most politically engaged and incendiary one; it's a very timely call-to-action against paedophilia in the Catholic Church - Silver Bear winner is now on VoD (including Netflix) [Read More...]

The Kindness of Strangers
Clumsy tale of domestic abuse and homelessness set in New York and produced in Denmark opens the 69th Berlin International Film Festival [Read More...]

Bathtubs over Broadway
Gleeful doc sheds light on the often overlooked “industrial musical”, while also celebrating one man's devotion to comedy and ironic entertainment - live from Rotterdam [Read More...]

Flemish Heaven (Le Ciel Flamand)
Set in a brothel on the French-Belgian border, queasy tale asks difficult questions about parenthood and responsibility - available throughout December on ArteKino [Read More...]

Until We Fall (Til vi Falder)
Danish drama set in Spain about couple seeking their missing child descends into a bizarre tale of despondency and recklessness - from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

A Shelter Among the Clouds (Streha mes Reve)
Two religions, one temple! Drama set in very rural and traditional Albania proposes a very peculiar gesture of unity between Muslims and Catholics: a joint mosque and church. But is it feasible? from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Slam
Australian film directed by Indian filmmaker will hit you like a punch in the face; our editor describes it as "film of the year" - from Sydney Film Festival [Read More...]

A Place to Live
The topics of grief, mourning and reconnecting with the past are the central pillar of this Canadian drama, set in the wintry countryside of Quebec - from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Still River (Akinito Potami)
Greek film set in Siberia excels in the sombre and wintry cinematography; it deals with a number of very different topics including corporate interests, Russian Orthodox faith and a dormant libido - from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Kadakh
Feuding couple have to conceal a dead body in their flat during their extravagant Diwali party, in dark comedy investigating India's "a-moral" values and traditions - from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Awaken
Sensory film filmed in 35 countries during six years premieres in the Competition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival; the outcome is rather impressive if not without imperfections [Read More...]

Spitak
Big budget Russian-Armenian production portrays a tragedy that claimed the lives of 25,000 Armenians and left more than half a million people homeless, at the very end of the Soviet era - from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Return
Koreans sent abroad for adoption return to South Korea to try and locate their birth parents, in profoundly moving fiction feature based on the director's own experience - from the London Korean Film Festival, on now [Read More...]

Promise at Dawn (La Promesse de l'Aube)
Screen adaptation of 1960 autobiographical novel by Romain Gary follows the Lithuanian-born French-writer as he flees Nazism and engages in the French Air Force, with a dazzling Charlotte Gainsbourg as his mother - from the Jewish Film Festival [Read More...]

The Journals Of Musan (Musanilgi)
Boy from the North Country. North Korean defector living in South Korea struggles to survive in the black economy, with scant help from those around him or people at the church he attends – from the London Korean Film Festival (LKFF), on now [Read More...]

Foreboding (Yocho)
Loving the alien. Again. Japanese director reshapes his earlier Before We Vanish into an effective drama which plays out as an edge of the seat, sci-fi alien invasion thriller - from the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF), on now [Read More...]

Burning (Beoning)
Korean director borrows filmic devices from Hitchcock, crafting breathtaking sequences with rigorous handheld camerawork; Ben Flanagan describes it as "film of the year" - now also available on VoD [Read More...]

Border (Gräns)
Someone just like me. A customs official meets her soulmate and discovers unexpected truths about both herself and him in Sweden's remarkable Foreign Language Oscar entry – from the 62nd BFI London Film Festival and now on Amazon Prime, DVD and Blu-ray [Read More...]

Little Forest (Liteul Poreseuteu)
The passing of the seasons. A young woman finds her true self in the Korean countryside in this adaptation of a Japanese manga; the outcome is dirtylicious and it will make you drool, for more reasons than one - from the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) and the London Korean Film Festival (LKFF) [Read More...]

Burkinabé Rising 
People have the power! Doc reveals that a grassroots revolution transformed Burkina Faso in a real democracy, and how the surrounding art world helped to articulate the resistance - from the Native Spirit Film Festival taking place between October 10th and 21st [Read More...]

Mirai
Japanese animation master crafts a fascinatingly puerile and colourful tale about only child coming to terms with his newly-arrived sister; it's guaranteed to please children and grown-ups alike - in cinemas Friday, November 2nd [Read More...]

The Man who Surprised Everyone (Tchelovek Kotorij Udivil Vseh)
An LGBT movie from Russia, but isn't that illegal? Transgressive Russian parable is a made into a film so full of shocks, twists and surprises that it will keep your head spinning - on Barbican Cinema on Demand/New East Cinema this December only [Read More...]

Humberto Mauro
Documentary about the "father of Brazilian cinema", who was born at the same time as Dziga Vertov and film itself, rescues and celebrates Brazilian history - live from the 75th Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Along With The Gods: The Last 49 Days (Singwa hamkke: Ingwa yeon)
Ye gods and little fishes! A dead soldier enters the afterlife where his suitability for reincarnation gets evaluated, while godly envoys are sent to Earth on a bizarre mission – from the London East Asia Film Festival, and also in selected cinemas from Thursday, August 16th [Read More...]

The Eyes Of Orson Welles
Pawn, Knight, King, Jester. A spoken letter to the great director in which Welles’ own, hitherto unseen drawings and paintings provide a radical new entry point into his life and art - previews with director Q&A from Sunday August 12th, in cinemas Friday, August 17th [Read More...]

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Terry Gilliam's intended magnum opus is a cauldron of self-references with a few good moments, but also a little hackneyed and unintelligible - now on all major VoD platforms [Read More...]

Yomeddine
Egyptian comedy about leper seeking his father juggles lighthearted humour with very profound sense of humanity - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

The Wild Pear Tree (Ahlat Agaci)
Palme d'Or winning Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns with a profound meditation on family and the role of the artist with almost 200 minutes of duration - in cinemas Friday, November 30th, and then on VoD Monday, December 3rd; on BFI Player on Monday, April 6th [Read More...]

Long Day's Journey Into Night (Di Qiu Zui Hou De Ye Wan)
Take a 3D journey into the nostalgic memories of a lonely Chinese man, in a film that excels in technical wizardly and has flavours of Tarkosvky - now availabel on VoD! [Read More...]

Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice)
Superb Italian drama with strong religious connotations meditates on compassion, trust and selflessness - now available on Google Play, Netflix and other platforms on July 31st [Read More...]

The Image Book (Le Livre d'Image]
The enfant terrible of French cinema stuns audiences (or not) with a filthy masterpiece you will probably never watch - now available on Mubi [Read More...]

The Island and the Whales
Barbaric killers or noble fishermen? Doc investigates ancient whale hunting tradition in the Faroe Islands, which raises a few eyebrows amongst animal rights campaigners - in cinemas March 29th. [Read More...]

Mario
When Leon joins Swiss-based BSC Young Boys, Mario and him unexpectedly fall in love with one another. Fighting for the same spot in the first team, they're on and off-field relationship becomes emotionally and professionally attached - now also available on VoD [Read More...]

Eva
Isabelle Huppert stars as a prostitute in an affair with a phony writer in psycho-sexual thriller adapted from a novel by British writer James Hadley Chase - live from the Berlinale [Read More...]

Mrs Hyde (Madame Hyde)
Let the beast out of the cage! Isabelle Huppert stars in absurdist drama about powerless teacher grappling with her rowdy and unimaginative pupils, until she begins to morph into something else - now streaming with DMovies [Read More...]

Scarred Hearts (Inimi Cicatrizate)
Heavy-hearted Romanian drama about man succumbing to TB during Interwar period reflects on our vulnerability, mortality and triggers of the intellect - watch it now with ArteKino [Read More...]

The Man Who Invented Christmas
This season, meet the English writer who invented Christmas... and the filmmaker who ruined it!!! Sloppy portrait of Charles Dickens and how he came to write A Christmas Carol is not going to fill your heart with holiday joy - in cinemas [Read More...]

It's Not Yet Dark
Doc about filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice, who himself directed a movie while suffering from Motor Neuron Disease, will open your heart and fill the darkness with light! Just don't forget the tissues - now on VoD [Read More...]

A Caribbean Dream
This re-imagining of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream set in Barbados is sadly very poorly-crafted and amateurish - in cinemas [Read More...]

Freak Show
Baby, I was born this way! Despite the bullying, Alex Lawther is an unabashed cross-dresser in this gentle coming-of-age tale - in cinemas and now also available for digital streaming [Read More...]

All that Divides Us (Tout nous Sépare)
Dirty French drama about unusual mother-daughter bond and a very libidinous disabled woman shows at the Rome International Film Festival, starring Catherine Deneuve [Read More...]

The Receptionist
Asian sex workers form a cohesive immigrant community within the wider world of English-speaking London, in convincing drama out in cinemas Friday, July 20th. [Read More...]

Before We Vanish (Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha)
Loving the alien: three humans claiming to be aliens steal ideas from people’s heads as they prepare for their race’s forthcoming invasion, in an unabashedly bizarre blend of comedy, romance and sci-fi – on DVD and digital HD on Monday, February 11th [Read More...]

ManHunt (Zhui bu)
Celebrated Hong Kong director John Woo builds one incredible action set piece on another, perfectly integrating them into his visual storytelling and bravura cinematic style, this time set in Japan - a late addition from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

The Florida Project
The irresistible naughtiness of being: the director of the dirty masterpiece Tangerine takes a look at the innocence of childhood, in a film set just outside Disney World - now on all major VoD platforms [Read More...]

The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Whining and wailing are futile! The Greek director of Dogtooth and The Lobster returns with an unforgiving tale of sacrifice, with his usual absurdist streak - finally in cinemas! [Read More...]

120 BPM (120 Battements par Minute)
Because the heart never stops beating: French movie is an energetic and yet painful reminder of the Aids crisis of the 1980s/1990s and the activism that it triggered - now finally available on Netflix [Read More...]

Wrath Of Silence (Bao Lie Wu Sheng)
Fist of parental fury: mute villager fights hard to find his missing son in rural China, in a film teeming with extraordinary social commentary and... fighting!!! From the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

78/52
Oh, mother, mother, what have you done??? Find out everything you ever wanted to know about the 78 set-ups and 52 cuts that comprised the infamous shower scene, in this very dirty doc about Psycho - on DVD and BFI Player [Read More...]

Good Manners (Boas Maneiras)
Outstanding Brazilian horror blends the tender with the bizarre, in a very original story about motherhood, pregnancy and reclusion from society - streaming now with DMovies [Read More...]

On Yoga: The Architecture of Peace
How do you achieve peace and transcendence through filmmaking and photography? American snapper Michael O'Neill and Brazilian helmer Heitor Dhalia travel to India in search of the answer - from Raindance [Read More...]

MFKZ (international title: Mutafukaz)
Urban dystopia has never looked as colourful as in this fast-paced, street-smart, animated, French-Japanese co-production - in cinemas Thursday, October 11th [Read More...]

Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez Bronzer les Cadavres)
Belgian duo create a colourful and plush tribute to the sexploitation genre, set somewhere in the sunny Mediterranean - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Good Time
Robert Pattinson plays a scruffy rogue in a crime film SO DIRTY and GRIPPING that it will leave the streets feeling boring and dim after you have left the cinema - in cinemas [Read More...]

Hunting Season (Temporada de Caza)
Like father like son, in South American way: female filmmaker penetrates the masculine world of two men related by blood and yet alien to their similarities, all against the backdrop of the cold and lovely Patagonia - live from Venice. [Read More...]

First Reformed
A very intense and spiritual Paul Schrader pushes Ethan Hawke into his most powerful role to date, a reverend facing profound existential issues - out on VoD on Monday, November 5th [Read More...]

Moon Dogs
Is there life on the Shetland Islands? Take a walk on the wild side of Britain, in this blend of pan-Celtic and Viking youth romance and scenic adventure set in the most remote areas of the country - in cinemas soon [Read More...]

Severina
Book it right now: this lyrical tale about the moribund habit of buying and reading books will enrapture you from its first pag... minute! From the Locarno Film Festival, and also available to view online for free for a short period only [Read More...]

Donkeyote
One man and his BRAY-ve companion: touching doc about an old Spaniard, his donkey and their insatiable wanderlust is a tribute to kindness and resilience - in cinemas Friday, October 26th [Read More...]

A Gentle Creature (Krotkaya)
Russia has no time for kindness and solidarity, in this hellish portrayal of a woman in search of her incarcerated husband - now also available on VoD [Read More...]

Jupiter's Moon (Jupiter Holdja)
Where Syrians fly: Hungarian film adds a very unexpected twist to the refugee crisis afflicting Europe, providing the afflicted with supernatural powers - on Mubi on Tuesday, May 24th; also available on Amazon Prime [Read More...]

Wonderstruck
Todd Haynes's latest excels in ingeniousness and technical wizardry, supported by outstanding performances and elegant photography, but the story gets a little diluted in its own complexity - now available for digital streaming [Read More...]

Loveless (Nelyubov)
To Russia with loathe: the latest movie by the director of the superb Leviathan is an allegory of hateful mother Russia, and how she's sacrificing her own children - now on all major VoD platforms [Read More...]

The Public Image is Rotten
Johnny Rotten thrives on controversy, but underneath there's a far more gentle and mellow human being - new doc at Raindance [Read More...]

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Not just a pretty face: the tragic story of the Austrian-born Hollywood star whose beauty overshadowed her extraordinary scientific skills - in cinemas Friday, March 9th [Read More...]

Out of Iraq
The humbling story of the impossible love between two gay Iraqi soldiers, which succeeds against all odds - from the BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival. [Read More...]

Personal Shopper
This very unusual French ghost movie is a kaleidoscope of genres, references and nationalities, hardly comparable to anything you've seen before - on Disney + UK on Friday, July 22nd; also available on other platforms [Read More...]

Muito Romântico
Brazilian couple draws inspiration from German literature, Brazilian music and their very own experience as immigrants in order to create their first feature film, a very personal and multilayered concoction [Read More...]

Bones of Contention
Is it about time Spain unearths the bones of Federico García Lorca and uncover its dirty history? Or should the past be left undisturbed? Doc searches for the answer, at Berlinale [Read More...]

On the Beach at Night Alone (Bamui Haebyun-Eoseo Honja)
Korean indie director examines the love life of a famous actress taking some time out, and achieves something previously deemed impossible - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Joaquim
Brazilian filmmaker hits Portuguese colonisers and modern imperialists where it hurts, exposing a continent deeply entrenched in racism, classism and hypocrisy - live from the Berlin Film Festival [Read More...]

The Bar (El Bar)
Spanish cult director Álex de la Iglesia creates a convincing mock-horror/thriller, guaranteed to keep you cringing and laughing for nearly two hours - from the Berlinale [Read More...]

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
This unclassifiable dirty movie won the hearts of audiences at Sundance, and it's shortly coming to Netflix - now it's your turn to see it and decide what you think! [Read More...]

Call me by Your Name
This modern take on Death in Venice is an emotional, rapturous and sensual queer love story taking place in northern Italy, and it immediately stole the heart of the audience at Sundance - in cinemas [Read More...]

The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev
Does music liberate or confine this family? Papa Alaev has the majestic voice of thunder and the overbearing hand of a despot, which he uses to chastise and control his family of musicians - Israeli doc looks at folk music and orthodox social norms [Read More...]

The Truth Beneath
Elections to kill for! K-thriller combines the colourful and the morbid in a twisted tale of teenage angst, political campaigning and murder - from the London Korean Film Festival taking place right now [Read More...]

Sad Vacation: The Last Days of Sid and Nancy
A one-way journey to hell - biopic of the first couple of punk blends real footage with reenactment, revealing a tragic and bleak symbiotic love story with a deadly sting - film is part of the Doc'n Roll Film Festival [Read More...]

El Destierro
Who is your real enemy? The Spanish Civil War left the country with split allegiances and profound wounds; now a Polish woman could help two soldiers to overcome the rift - Spanish drama will open the Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival on November 3rd [Read More...]

It's Only The End of The World (Juste la Fin du Monde)
Who the hell stole my play? Maysa Monção writes a letter to the late French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce letting him know that Xavier Dolan did a great job adapting his masterpiece to the silver screen; you wouldn't want the poor man rolling in his coffin! Available now on Mubi [Read More...]

Aquarius
The Brazilian weapon of resistance: played by the legendary Sônia Braga, Clara is a woman who uses nostalgia as a shield against her fast-changing and deeply corrupt society, as well as an instrument for both physical and emotional survival - now on Netflix! [Read More...]

Tramontane
Picking up fragments of history: blind Lebanese orphan seeks his real identity in this complex and multilayered drama, but sadly the truth is as shattered as the ruins from the Civil War - in cinemas [Read More...]

Manchester by the Sea
As miserable as it gets: tale of a grumpy and cantankerous lonely man excels in its unusual storytelling format, turning an ordinary story of family mishaps into a fascinating movie with a top-drawer cast [Read More...]

Kills on Wheels (Tiszta Szívvel)
The wrath of the wheelchairs: three Hungarian handicapped men rise against exclusion and prejudice by taking arms... and embracing a life of crime - this comedy-drama out in cinemas this week will derail your notions of disability [Read More...]

Dearest Sister
I see dead Asian people: sexual politics, colonialism, a blind girl and ghosts that know the lottery numbers - stick it all in the large gumbo of Southeast Asian horror and watch it simmer - the film is part of the BFI London Film Festival that starts this week [Read More...]

A Dark Song
Hello, may I please speak to my dead son? This is no schlock, nail-biting horror, but an emotional trip into the dark secrets of Irish occultism [Read More...]

The Bacchus Lady
The strange lady of South Korea: unlikely motherly bond develops between old prostitute and rejected foreign child as they seek the boy's father - from the London Korean Film Festival [Read More...]

Deliver Us (Libera Nos)
Demon-infested or moonstruck? Empathetic and non-intrusive doc gets under the skin of Italians 'possessed' by demons without passing judgment and breaking the dysfunctional characters - in cinemas [Read More...]

When Two Worlds Collide (El Choque de Dos Mundos)
Who are the real savages? Peruvian doc exposes government and police violence against indigenous people, and reveals a cynical and perverse notion of "savagery" - the film is out in cinemas now [Read More...]

Carancho
The vultures are circling in: this Argentinian classic tells the story of an ambulance chaser and denounces a barely legal and highly unethical blame culture that destroys jobs, relationships and lives - at the Argentine Film Festival in London [Read More...]

Dimona Twist
The women of the desert: how did these modern young women start a new life and a build a society in the middle of the desert in the early years of Israel? Michal Avid's doc is a tribute to female strength and resilience [Read More...]

Sid and Nancy
Furious music, sickly bodies: this classic biopic offers a glimpse into the lives of the boisterous and dysfunctional first couple of punk music, with a fascinating performance from Gary Oldman - the movie is out in cinemas again this Friday [Read More...]

Fists in The Pocket (I Pugni in Tasca)
A fist on the face of the Italian bourgeoisie: Marco Bellochio's early masterpiece has now been restored, and you can now see the real colours of a deeply corrupt social system - from Cinema Rediscovered [Read More...]

Naanu Avanalla Avalu
Third gender, third category? The Hijra trans women of India struggle for social inclusion, despite being legally recognised since 2014. Colourful and boisterous tale of a transgender female fighting for acceptance is one of the highlights of the London Indian Film festival this week [Read More...]

Desert Migration
The gay Ballad of Narayama? Gay Americans living with HIV move to the desert as they get older, where they calmly wait for their deaths, seek spiritual healing and community support [Read More...]

Olmo and The Seagull (Olmo e a Gaivota)
Does being a mother make you a better person? This hybrid and very international doc-fiction examines the impact of maternity on a woman's personal life and work, with Chekhov's 'The Seagull' as the backdrop [Read More...]

Uncle Howard
The man who filmed William S. Burroughs: documentary rescues the legacy of young, audacious and prematurely silenced filmmaker Howard Brookner, who captured the Beat poet and his fellow writers in an entirely unforeseen way [Read More...]

Another Year
Rural, loud, poor and with many children: this is a very intimate and at times disturbing portrait of a side of China very few people are familiar with - showing this week at the Open City Documentary Film Festival [Read More...]

The Great Wall
There is a wall protecting Europe from the "cruel" people of the South - astounding documentary opening the Open City Documentary Festival in London takes a Kafkan look at how European perceive their nether neighbours [Read More...]

The Greasy Strangler
How do you bake a dirty movie and become a hit in the UK? Maysa Monção has the exclusive recipe for you [Read More...]

Wiener-Dog
The dark and cynical genius of Todd Solondz is back, this time in the shape of a canine antihero - but sadly the creature fails to bite the viewers [Read More...]

Golden Dawn: a Personal Affair
Can you be impartial when your family integrity is at stake? Documentary investigates the rise of the far-right in Greece, police complacency and the implications for foreigners and for liberal activists living in the Balkan nation. [Read More...]

Versus - The Life and Films of Ken Loach
The well-mannered cricket-lover who quietly confronts the mighty British media and right-wing establishment - new documentary is out in cinemas on Friday with pay-what-you-can access [Read More...]

The Return
Better inside or outside? The social "reentry" system for former prisoners in the US has severe flaws, leaving many African Americans marginalised and unable to reintegrate - new documentary explores [Read More...]

Flotel Europa
Bosnian refugees float for years in a makeshift "flotel" on the canals of Copenhagen, in a real-life allegory of Europe's humanitarian disaster - in new documentary made by a refugee [Read More...]

Symptoms
Complete with lesbian ghostly sex, this chilling, lost and forgotten very British horror movie from 1974 has now been found and restored, and it is guaranteed to give you nightmares [Read More...]

The Darkest Universe
Family relations are often narrow and gloomy, just like the boat tunnels in London - this powerful new British movie is a profound meditation on human fallacies [Read More...]

Ka Bodyscapes
How dirty and impure is the human body? Gay men and menstruating women have the answer, in this compelling new drama from India [Read More...]

Inside the Chinese Closet
How many gays and lesbians can you fit in the Chinese closet? New documentary examines the alternatives to coming out in the largest country in the world [Read More...]

Beautiful Something
Four gay men in Philadelphia seek something profound and meaningful in their lives, but instead they are trapped in their empty existence without love and affection [Read More...]

Welcome to This House
Entering the world of Canadian poet Elizabeth Bishop is as difficult as entering a woman dry, new documentary shows [Read More...]

Akron
An American story of bereavement and forgiveness, where homosexuality is the background but never the leitmotif - now available on BFI player [Read More...]

Drained (O Cheiro do Ralo)
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - the politics of sex and of pawning are not always this straight-forward [Read More...]

Neighbouring Sounds (O Som ao Redor)
In his first film, Kleber Mendonca Filho explores the dull urban cacophony that ties together middle-class neighbours in the Brazilian city of Recife - on MUBI for 30 days only! [Read More...]

Genius
How do you rewrite the same old story? Michael Grandage delivers star-studded piece about reclaiming forgotten writers and editors [Read More...]

Crosscurrent
Chinese masterpiece wows Berlin and reveals: the rushed modernisation of China can be elegantly dirty and oddly fascinating [Read More...]

The light shines on first-time directors!
After providing the landscape for the blockbuster of the year, the Estonian capital sees an impressive selection of 21 debut feature films vie for three major prizes - Redmond Bacon reports live from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Our dirty questions to Jennifer Sheridan
The South London director recognised for her editing work in the television series The League of Gentleman talks about her debut feature: ROSE: A LOVE STORY, in an exclusive interview [Read More...]

The mastermind behind the shooting
The director of the ultra-violent Silver Lion winner New Order talks about dystopia, social movements, being apolitical, Mexican cinema, Fassbinder, Tarantino, Buñuel and more, just as his movie premieres in the UK [Read More...]

The dazzling colours of British-Pakistani rap
The American-Pakistani director of Mogul Mowgli talks about his second feature film, the story of a rapper having grapple with a very unexpected enemy within [Read More...]

Our dirty questions to Šarūnas Bartas
The iconic Lithuanian filmmaker talks about his quiet and meditative war drama, and how his childhood and adolescent experiences and observations inspired him [Read More...]

Our top 10 dirty picks from the BFI London Film Festival 2020
The 64th edition of the largest film festival in the UK takes place between October 7th and 18th in multiple venues across London, and online screenings everywhere in the UK - here are the dirtiest movies picked exclusively for you! [Read More...]

Connecting industry professionals day and night!
For the first time ever, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival have expanded its programme to include a vast array of online activities exclusively for industry professionals - accreditation opens on Monday, September 21st [Read More...]

Help Oscar to create life!
The director of the upcoming documentary 'A Life on the Farm', about a Somerset farmer’s insane home movies, talks about his project in a letter to our readers - now it's your turn to help out! [Read More...]

Babylon has risen!
American writer David Stewart draws pertinent parallels between the dirty British classic Babylon and the Black Lives Matter movement, particularly the emblematic moment when a BLM activist carried a wounded white supremacist to safety [Read More...]

Just kill all hippies!!!
As Dennis Hopper's Out of the Blue turns 40, Steven Naish investigates what is it that makes the dirty movie indelible and delectable [Read More...]

Making a guerrilla documentary in ultra-homophobic Chechnya
David France discusses his incredible work of investigative journalism, Welcome To Chechnya, focusing on real-life heroes saving LGBT people in the region. [Read More...]

Our dirty questions to Bernard Rose
Ian Schultz interviews the 59-year-old English filmmaker and screenwriter, who has a career spanning nearly 40 years and a brand new Samurai movie! [Read More...]

The top 10 dirtiest films of 2019
We look back at the year of 2019 and ask our writers and readers to pick their dirty movie of the year; the list is as international, diverse and downright filthy as it gets! [Read More...]

December is once again the month of European cinema!
ArteKino is back for the fourth consecutive year with a selection of 10 dirty gems from every corner of Europe available until December 31st, and it's entirely free to watch! [Read More...]

Our dirty questions to Mike Newell
The British director of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Four Weddings and a Funeral talks about his experience as jury president in the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, the future of the seventh art after Brexit, Truffaut, happy endings and much more, in exclusive interview! [Read More...]

Our top 10 dirty picks from the Cambridge Film Festival
As the 39th edition of third longest-running film festival in the UK approaches, we have cherry-picked the 10 most innovative, thought-provoking and downright filthy gems from the event that takes place between October 17th and 24th [Read More...]

The spirit of Indigenous cinema arrives in London!
The 13th Native Spirit Festival takes place between October 12th and 20th, with a selection of 87 films, plus talks, music and interactive performances in six venues across the British capital [Read More...]

Our dirty questions to Thirza Cuthand
As the transgressive Indigiqueer filmmaker arrives in London from Canada for the Native Spirit Festival, we took the opportunity to talk about indigenous traditions, transposing, oral storytelling into cinema, humour as a political tool and more! [Read More...]

Our top 10 dirty picks from the 2019 BFI London Film Festival
Check out 10 dirtylicious films from the upcoming BFI London Film Festival, including the latest features by Martin Scorsese Francois Ozon and Kleber Mendonca Filho, plus a little treat from Pablo Larrain! [Read More...]

Discover Iceland in all its glory!
We sat down with Icelandic auteur Rúnar Rúnarsson to discuss Echo, covering everything from working with amateurs to the country's outstanding beauty! [Read More...]

Cinema that bites!
We sat down with the directing duo behind Space Dogs, an experimental and deeply disturbing doc depicting canine life in a never-seen-before way - live from Locarno [Read More...]

Our dirty picks from the upcoming Locarno Film Festival
We are looking out for the dirty gems from the eclectic programme at Locarno so you don't have to. They include the latest films by Tarantino, Kapadia, Kurosawa and many more! [Read More...]

10 films about The Troubles
Eoghan Lyng lists 10 dirty movies about the chaos and conflict that prevailed in Northern Ireland for several decades, until the signing of The Good Friday Agreement in 1998 [Read More...]

The cure for teen angst?
Calum Cooper argues that adolescent melancholy can be strangely soothing, and that the portrayal of anxiety in Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade is gently reassuring! [Read More...]

The top 10 dirtiest films of 2018
We look back at the year of 2018 and ask our writers and readers to pick their dirty movie of the year; the list is as international, diverse and downright filthy as it gets! [Read More...]

Sorry to bother you, BFI and Picturehouse!!!
As the BFI London Film Festival draws to a close, Ben Flanagan highlights a stark contradiction between the proletarian message of films such as SORRY TO BOTHER YOU and the corporate attitude of the Festival organisers [Read More...]

Our top 10 dirty picks from the Cambridge Film Festival
As the third longest-running film festival in the UK approaches, we have cherry-picked the 10 most innovative, thought-provoking and downright filthy gems from the event that takes place between November 25th and December 1st! [Read More...]

Our dirty questions to Panos Cosmatos
As the instant classic Mandy premieres at the BFI London Film Festival and hits UK cinemas, Lara C. Cory met with the Greek-Canadian filmmaker and found out where the filthy story began! [Read More...]

London is in high spirits!!!
The 12th Native Spirit Film Festival starts in just a week at the heart of the British capital, with a selection of Indigenous films from all corners of the planet teeming with colour, diversity and urgent sociopolitical issues; check out our lowdown on the event. [Read More...]

Meet the man behind the Black Divaz
As the documentary BLACK DIVAZ - about six Aboriginal drag queens - premieres at the Native Spirit Film Festival, we had a dirty talk with the filmmaker Adrian Russell Wills and found out about his inspiration, his impetus and the challenges in making such a thought-provoking movie [Read More...]

Our 10 mega-filthy picks for the BFI London Film Festival 2018
The 62th BFI London Film Festival takes place between October 10th and 21st; check out the 10 unmissable dirty gems that we have unearthed, all of them thoroughly reviewed exclusively for you! [Read More...]

Run Lola Run, still going fast 20 years on!!!
Two decades later, Tom Tykwer's movie remains one of the most profitable foreign language films of all times; we investigate the dirty secrets of the highly influential German flick [Read More...]

Our lowdown on Sheffield Doc/Fest
Our new dirty writer Ben has attended the latest edition of the largest documentary film festival in the UK and third in the world; he shares the highlights of a very positive experience! [Read More...]

Tilting at windmills in Paris
Ian Schultz explains why THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE is Terry Gilliam's best film since BRAZIL, and that it was worth crossing the Channel overnight and by bus in order to watch it! [Read More...]

10 superb trans films from the past two years!
The Best Foreign Language Academy Award for A Fantastic Woman wasn't just a one-off; check out the 10 outstanding films dealing with transsexual and transgender people in the past two years (or so) [Read More...]

The Stop the War FILM Coalition: 10 anti-war movies released in the past 12 months
As we commemorate the centenary of WW1, and Journey's End is out in cinemas all across the country, we remember 10 movies made in the last year (or so) which convey an unambiguously anti-war message, devoid of subliminal celebratory tones [Read More...]

The top 10 dirtiest films of 2017
A Syrian mother, a Brazilian clown, an Israeli soldier, a French shrink, a German psycho, a courgette and many more - check out the characters and their twisted predicament in the top 10 most daring, innovative, subversive and downright filthy movies of the year, as picked by our contributors and readers! [Read More...]

We have a surprise for you, but it's for BEFORE Christmas
ArteKino and Festival Scope have a prezzie for you: 10 European films that you can watch from the comfort of your lounge anywhere in the old continent for free; but HURRY UP, you have to do it before December 17th [Read More...]

Just how dirty and queer will Fringe! get this year?
It's finally that time of the year when an explosion of transgressive and progressive queer cinema hits East London; DMovies had a chat with the Fringe! Queer Film Fest team and they have revealed all their dirty secrets... [Read More...]

Fancy an emotional walk through European cinema?
DMovies has teamed up with Under the Milky Way and The Film Agency in order to bring to you the dirtiest gems of European cinema straight to your home on VoD this Autumn, as part of the Walk This Way collection [Read More...]

Top 10 horror films made by women
Think horror is male territory? Think again! These 10 scary hairy ladies are getting down and dirty, and they have come up with some of the creepier, most twisted and horrifying films you'll ever see! [Read More...]

2017 is a VERY BAD year for motherhood... well, at least in cinema!
The haunting Russian drama LOVELESS, about a horrific mother, has just won the BFI London Film Festival, but this is far from the only harrowing and creepy tale about motherly bonds that don't quite work out as you would expect - check out our top five films about failed motherhood, all from 2017! [Read More...]

Five dirty picks from the Raindance Film Festival
Check out top five recommendations for the Raindance Film Festival, one of the largest showcases for independent cinema in the world, starting this week in London [Read More...]

Six dirty picks from the London Film Festival
Tickets for the largest film festival in the country go on sale today, so we decided to pick the top six dirtiest movies, which you should not miss - hurry up! [Read More...]

A question of identity: Brexitannia and The House on Coco Road
Our favourite dirty movie-goer Julia writes about two very different docs at the East End Film Festival, national and racial identity and what you can do in order to save a dirty gem of a movie theatre in London! [Read More...]

One building, one million stories
Our writer Maysa Monção unexpectedly stumbled across the iconic Chelsea Hotel while in New York covering the Tribeca Film Festival, and she finds out that every corner of the building exudes film history [Read More...]

This is how I made it to Netflix
The winner of this year's Sundance Macon Blair answers our dirty questions, and reveals how his unclassifiable and unpronounceable dirty movie ended on your TV set in less than a month! [Read More...]

Less salted caramel movies, please!!!
Moviegoer Julia Spatuzzi shares her frustration about the independent and art cinema circuit in London, where frills and treats seem to prevail over film choice, and foreign language movies are still the exception [Read More...]

The top 10 rock'n roll docs of all times
As he prepares for the latest edition of the Doc'n Roll Film Festival - possibly the UK's largest hybrid feast of cinema and music -, the event's founder and director Colm Forde shares with us his list of the 10 most impressive rock'n roll documentaries ever! [Read More...]

Film curator for a day!
Rattle the world of cinema: joint initiative by the Barbican and Film London “What London Watches: Ten Films That Shook Our World” gives people like you the opportunity to pick a dirty film for the British capital to see; don't miss the deadline! [Read More...]

The hills of Kosovo are alive with cinema
See the new face of Kosovo in the charming medieval town of Prizren, as one of the most important documentary film festivals in Europe hits the fast-changing nation in the Balkans; Dokufest starts this Friday [Read More...]

Under the red carpet of Cannes
Beyond pomp and circumstance: Dirty Movies lifts the red carpet in Cannes and uncovers the most audacious and promising projects being hatched at the event [Read More...]

John, 'tis the time to go to Sheffield!
A very impressive selection of world documentaries, plus a virtual realities exhibition, will hit Sheffield next month; we will bring the best of them to you firsthand [Read More...]

Film as a transformational weapon against war
Filmmakers equip children and adolescents in Iraq with cameras instead of guns, enabling them to shoot from a very different perspective, in a likely unprecedented initiative. Now it’s your turn to do your part [Read More...]

Jules Arita Koostachin
Born in Moose Factory Ontario, Jules was raised by her Cree speaking grandparents in Moosonee, and also with her mother in Ottawa, a warrior of the Canadian Residential school system. Jules is a band member of Attawapiskat First Nation, the [Read More...]

Redmond Bacon
Redmond’s tastes are pretty diverse – from the neglected cop classic Tango and Cash (Andrei Konchalovsky,1989) the lesbian drama Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson, 1998) to Scorsese’s best film: Wolf of Wall Street (2013). There is no particular genre he [Read More...]

Francesco Bacci
Francesco Bacci is an Italian writer and translator who has always loved cinema and the entertainment world. He began writing a few years ago and now he just can’t stop doing it both in Italian and English. In the past [Read More...]

Alan McKenna
Acting can lead you to fascinating and perilous places. While searching for the ultimate acting technique, an artist can be driven by emotions and physical actions that push him to the limit. Alan McKenna is walking down a dark road [Read More...]

André Wallström
André Wallström is a producer specialised in marketing and distribution of documentary films. He runs an international production company and branded content agency together with award-winning director and brother Jonny Von Wallström. He also founded Story4Change, a non-profit organisation using [Read More...]