Wri/Dir: Damilola Orimogunje Set in south-western Nigeria in the 1990s, Damilola Orimogunje’s Dear Ajayi is an intimate, atmospheric family drama about two sisters locked in a battle between duty and desire. Ade...

Dir: Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu | Cameroon, drama 2026 House of the Wind is a quietly devastating film, unfolding with an intensity that comes not from spectacle but from what remains...

Dir: Francesca Archibugi | Italy 2026 Carla Lonzi was never going to make a cosy biopic. The Italian art critic turned feminist firebrand spent her life kicking against patriarchy, convention and,...

Dir: Martin McDonagh | UK Comedy Drama 2026 McDonagh’s latest film, premiering at Venice, is unmistakably his own: wickedly funny, verbally flamboyant and populated by people who seem to regard emotional...

Dir: Halkawt Mustafa | Drama 2026 There is something immediately striking about No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman. Even before the first frame has been screened in Venice,...

Dir: Sabu | Thriller 2026 Arrested Memory follows Lee (Ethan Juan), a once-legendary Taipei detective sidelined to a quiet rural police station after a tragic, guilt-inducing operation. His life takes a...

Dir: Sebastián Múnera | Drama 2026 Meteorite opens with a deliciously strange proposition: two young Colombian women smuggling mobile phones into a prison take a detour through an amusement park built...

Dir;: Amos Gitai | Doc 2026 76’ The Road to Jericho is a subtle yet powerful hybrid of documentary, archive and essay film, directed by Israel’s Amos Gitai Rather than constructing a...

BFI London Film Festival Announces 2026 Official Competition The 70th BFI London Film Festival has announced the ten films competing for its Best Film Award, with the winner to be revealed...