Dir: Fritz Lang | US Film Noir 101´ Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street is a masterpiece of American film noir, this is a film where desire, deception and humiliation feed off one another...

Dir: David Bickerstaff | Art Documentary 2026 There is a deceptively simple idea at the heart of Phil Grabsky and David Bickerstaff’s long-running Exhibition on Screen series: if audiences can’t get...

Dir: Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni | Drama 2026 Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni’s Diane in the Loop begins with an arresting contradiction: Diane despises men as much as she desires...

Dir: Sergei Loznitsa | Doc 176’ Sergei Loznitsa’s Imperium is an extraordinary 176-minute archival journey through the Soviet Union — a vast, ironic travelogue assembled entirely from footage shot between 1970...

Dir: Grant Gee |  UK/Ireland 2026 Reviewed by Ian Long “Sometimes the intermission is part of the music,” jazz pianist Bill Evans’ mother tells him in the course of this powerful biographical...

Dir: Alexandre Smia | France, Political thriller 2026 The Button Nobody Wants to Press Alexandre Smia’s Jupiter imprisons us in the most terrifying room in France: the subterranean command centre beneath the...

Dir: Edoardo Gabbriellini | Italy Drama 2026 There are crimes so senseless that trying to explain them can seem almost indecent. Edoardo Gabbriellini’s The City of the Living, freely inspired by...

Dir: Francesco Clerici, Mattia Colombo | Italy 2026 There is an intriguing paradox at the heart of Anatomy of a Portrait: how do you make a life visible when almost nothing...

Dir: Nicola Sorcinelli | Drama 2026 There is something immediately arresting about the premise of Nicola Sorcinelli’s Balcanica: an Afghan father and son, both musicians, are forced to leave their country...