Reviews

Dir/Wri: Russell Owen | UK Horror 103’ A little bit style over substance, Shepherd is an effective but rather overwrought third feature from Welsh writer/director Russell Owen, with Greta Scachi as the...

Dir: Cleo Cohen | Israel Doc Cléo Cohen’s directorial debut is a highly personal exploration of her own identity as the granddaughter of Jewish Arabs who emigrated from Tunisia and Algeria...

Dir: Chloe Fairweather | UK Doc, 84' This grim but worthwhile documentary - the UK's Oscar Academy hopeful - greets us with the news that one in three Turkish women experience...

  Dir.: Ousmane Samassekou; Documentary; Mali/France/ Germany, 2021, 85 min. Malian director Ousmane Samassekou has filmed random travellers from all over North Africa in a transit home in Gao, near the Sahara...

Dir.: Reinaldo Marcus Green; Cast: Will smith, Aunjanue Ellis, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, John Bernthal, Tony Goldwyn; USA 2021, 138min. The success story of mammoth tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams...

Dir: Erika Etangsale | France, Doc 50' In her delicately atmospheric meditation on identity and colonial origins Erika Etangsale uses silence, a soft ambient soundscape and an impressive editing technique as...

Dir.: Saeed Taji Farouky; Documentary with Thein Shwe, Hwte Tin, Zin Ko Aung; France/Switzerland/Netherlands/Palestine; 90 min. The day to day life of a family in the Magway region of Myanmar, home...

Dir.: Aicha Macky; Documentary with Sinya Boy, Bawo, Ramsess, Americain, PGG; Mali/France/Germany 2021, 85 min. Nigerian writer/director Aicha Macky grew up the former leper's quarter of Zinder, Niger's second biggest city...

Dir.: Anastasiya Palchikova; Cast: Polina Gukhman, Anna Chipovskaya; Maksim Sukhanov, Alexander Mizev, Iris Lebedeva; Russia 2020, 86 min. This first feature from Russian writer/director Anastasiya Palchikova is a thinly veiled critique...