“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 ...

"Another singular and compelling addition to Pereda’s distinctive body of work." Playing in this year’s New York Film Festival’s Main Slate is the latest ...

“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 ...

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

Playing in this year’s New York Film Festival’s Currents section is the latest film from Argentine director Mariano Llinás, Life of Jorge Luis Borges. The film is Llinás’ directorial follow-up to his ...

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 ...

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 ...

They say it is often easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, but no one actually realises how difficult it can be to earn your redemption when you have been labelled as a social outcast to the ...

“A film about the painful space between one world and another, when the old world is still alive but can no longer continue in the same way.” For centuries, Naga communities in northeast India lived ...

"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 ...