“Ben’Imana is one of the most arresting, viscerally alive and profoundly humane African debuts to have appeared at this festival in a generation.” There are moments at Cannes when the relentless ...

“A haunted elegy of inheritance and repentance, where the sins of history echo in every room.” As the years go by and I get older, I find myself thinking more often about the people I have known who ...

"One of the most tremendous films in recent years." Playing in this year’s New York Film Festival’s Currents section is the ...

"Ghost Song proves that Akın grew up and became a master of his craft while preserving his core strength: authentic emotion ...

Yasser (Yasser Al Mawla) is determined to find his cousin, who loved a man she could not have because he was promised to another. And now she has vanished. Fog seems to hang perpetually over the ...

"A middling social drama that has its heart in the right place" They say it is often easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, but no one actually ...

"The most difficult thing about Cute is also what provides its pulse: the film refuses to tell us exactly how to feel about these people." What does it ...

"An unexpectedly charming blend of comedy and drama" Every family has that one eccentric who makes life more interesting than it perhaps ought to be as a ...

There is a freedom in sharing your story with a stranger. Whether it is a person seated next to you at a coffee shop, a fellow passenger on a bus trip or, in the case of Sebastian Brameshuber’s London ...

The past has a tendency to linger. It can follow us like a specter, emerging at the most unexpected of moments, and increasingly difficult to ignore. For some, it can be an ongoing burden that never ...

"A very moving exploration of the lingering challenges that come when trying to process an unexpected and uncomfortable ...