"Few filmmakers can make cinema feel so alive, so strange and so open to the possibilities of existence" Carlos Reygadas is ...

You would be forgiven for never having heard of Siâvash Karampour or his band The Yellow Dogs, despite being considered quite an influential artistic voice. Unless one is familiar with the intricate ...

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

David Lynch once famously quipped, “I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath”, which has often been used to refer to any instance ...

“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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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

"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 ...

Mike Leigh is the reason I love cinema. As hyperbolic as that sounds, it is not empty praise – it was the discovery of his work when I was taking those first steps into exploring the world of cinema, ...