Dir.: Shahram Mokri; Cast: Babak Karami, Razieh Mansouri, Abolfazl Kahani, Mohammad Sareban, Adel Yaraghi, Mahmoud Behraznia, Behzad Dorani; Iran, 139 min. Iran's Shahram Mokri won a Special Prize in the Venice...

Dir.: Milo Rau; Cast: Yvan Sagnet, Maia Morgenstern, Enrique Irazoqui, Marcello Fonte, Samuel Jacobs, Papa Latyr Faye; Switzerland/Germany 2020, 107 min. Swiss writer/director Milo Rau gives Jesus and his apostles a...

Dir.: Rodrigo Sepulveda; Cast: Alfredo Castro, Leonardo Ortizgris, Paulina Urrutia, Julieta Zylberberg; Chile/Mexico/Argentina 2020, 93 min. Venice winner Alfredo Castro (From Afar) is the main attraction of this full on melodrama with...

Dir: Ahmad Bahrami | Ali Bagheri (Lotfolah), Farrokh Nemati (Boss), Mahdieh Nassaj (Sarvar), Touraj Alvand (Shahoo), Majid Farhang (Ebrahim) |  Drama, Iran 103’ Ahmad Bahrami’s second feature is a work of...

Dir: Ciro Guerra | Cast: Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson, Johnny Depp | Historical drama 110' Colombian filmmaker Ciro Guerra continues his exploration of imperialist oppression with this stunningly scenic saga set...

Dir.: Merawi Gerima; Cast: Obinna Nwachkwa, Dennis Lindsey, Taline Stewart, Jamal Graham, Melody Tally, Ramon Thompson; USA 2020, 90 min. This debut feature chimes with today’s Black Lives Matter theme through the...

Dir: Kornel Mundruczo | Drama, 127’ Nothing prepares us for sudden death. Pieces of a Woman sees a couple suffer the loss of their newborn child. But the most surprising upshot of...

Dir: Nicole Garcia | Drama, France 102’ Venice Film Festival is hot to trot with a selection of eclectic new European arthouse titles but this pale rider is one of the...

Dir.: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy; Cast: Natalya Pavlenkova, Olga Lupshina, Kseniya Zueva, Alexandar Semchev; Russia/Estonia/UK/Italy 2020, 135 min. On October 23rd 2002 850 spectators were held hostage in the Dubrovka theatre of...