Reviews

Dir: Damien Hauser | Switzerland/Kenya 80’ | Cast: Shandra Apondi, Ibraham Joseph, Samson Waithaka, Michael Garama, Damien Hauser and
Newton Ronnoh A truly unique vision of a hopeful future comes in Memory...

Dir: Jasmin Gordon | Drama, Switzerland, 80' A Swiss mother of three finds herself on mean streets in this filmic but rather flat family drama premiering at this year's Toronto Film...

Dir: Evi Kalogiropoulou | Greece 92’ 2025 Female power trumps male machismo in this wacky neon-infused Mad Max style Greek revenge thriller. Evi Kalogiropoulou’s  often ludicrous feature debut is set on a...

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: 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...