Dir: Walerian Borocwyck | Cast: Udo Kier, Maria Pierro, Patrick McGee | 1981 Sometimes a film is so uncompromisingly strange it exerts a fascination more respectable productions cannot equal. Borowczyk's version...

Dir: Shahad Ameen | Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, United Kingdom - 2025 - 115’ The desert makes a beguiling backdrop to this sophomore road movie from breakout writer/director Shahad Ameen (Scales)....

Dir: Nastia Korkia | Cast: Maiia Pleshkevich, Yakov Karykhalin, Aleksandr Karpushin, Vesna Jovanović, Alexander Feklistov | Germany, Serbia, France, 101’ Tranquility reigns in this bucolic coming of age drama, for the...

Dir: Paolo Sorrentino | Cast: Toni Servillo, Anna Ferzetti, Orlando Cinque, Milvia Venturiello | Italy Drama 131' Paolo Sorrentino returns to form with this impressive Venice film festival opener crafted with...

Dir: Teona Strugar Mitevska | Cast: Noomi Rapace, Sylvia Hoeks, Nikola Ristanovski | Drama | 105’ 2025 Noomi Rapace stars in this inspired drama that follows a week in the life...

Dir: Urška Djuki |  Urska Djuki's award-winning films certainly have enticing titles - her first feature Little Trouble Girls screening at this year's Berlinale follows on from her short film Granny's...

  Venice Film Festival continues its mission to outshine Cannes. And this year's offering may very well achieve that aim with a glittering array of features from filmmakers at the zenith...

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki is Finnish filmmaker's Juho Kuosmanen's dynamite debut, a black and white retro-flic based on the true story of the Finnish boxer Olli...

Dirs: Cécile Embleton & Alys Tomlinson | UK, 2024, 91' An ascetic life of prayer and devotion is not for everyone. But Mother Vera (birth name Olga) has chosen the...