Dir: Kumakiri Kazuyoshi | Cast: Nakajima Yuto, Nao, Nagayama Kento, Okada Michitaka | Japan: 99' Another nail-biting psychological drama along the lines of 127 Hours this time sees a man trapped down...

Dir: Alvaro Gago | Spain, drama. 99' The Spanish coastal region of Galicia is viewed as a rain-swept, hostile place and very much a character in this feature debut from Alvaro...

Dir.: Amr Gamal; Cast: Khaled Hamdan, Abeer Mohammed, Samah Alamrani, Awsam Abdulrahman; South Yemen/Sudan 2023, 91 min. Polish-born Yemenite director Amr Gamal follows his 2018 feature debut Ten Days before the Wedding –...

Dir.: Sonja Heiss; Cast: Camille Loup Moltzen, Arsseni Bultmann, Merlin Rose, Kolja Koddenbrock, Leevi Tjelle Hohlein, Pola Geiger, Laura Tonke, Devid Striesow; Germany 2023, 116min. In her expansive drama focusing on the development...

Dir.: Martin Benchimol; Cast: Justine Olivo, Alexia Caminos Olivo; Argentina/France 2022, 77 min. The first solo feature film from Argentine director Marin Benchimol, whose short films have garnered prizes on the...

Dir: Bas Devos | Cast: Liyo Gong, Stefan Goat | Drama, 82 A serendipitous relationship between a Romanian construction worker and a Belgian-Chinese woman slowly ignites in this subtle yet luminous...

Dir.: Patric Chiha; Cast: Anais Demoustier, Tom Mercier, Beatrice Dalle, Martin Vischer, Sophie Demeyer; France/Austria/Belgium 2023, 103 min. A doomed love story is given a twentieth century spin into the...

Dir.: Mario Martone; Documentary with Anna Pavignano, Paolo Sorrentino, Michael Radford, Roberto Perpignani; Italy 2023, 128 min. A very personal portrait of successful director, writer and actor Massimo Troisi by his fellow...

Dir.: Ruth Beckermann; Documentary; Austria 2022, 100 min. After her much lauded 2016 film The Dreamed Ones that centred on correspondence between poets Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, Mutzenbacher would make a better radio...