Tsigaridis and Silva weave comedy and tragedy together, letting each remain distinct, and in the process create a kind of discomfort that the genre rarely admits to.
Battling against the legacy of childhood trauma, internalised misogyny, and the image-obsessed fat shaming of the LA music business, aspiring singer-songwriter Frankie Ramirez finally snaps, with bloody results
Wells finds within his story many formative elements of 20th Century US history, with Capra’s tragedy and contradictions speaking to the country’s own.
Profile of the It’s A Wonderful Life director using previously unseen archive material to explore his rise from childhood poverty in Sicily to become one of the world’s most celebrated filmmakers.
If both stars aren’t mentioned in awards talk next year, it will be a travesty.
Frank, serving a life sentence, takes a prison job caring for ageing inmates with Alzheimer’s and dementia. What begins as a self-interested bid for parole becomes a profound, transformative bond with fellow inmate Louis, offering Frank a glimpse of redemption in an unforgiving place.
Two reanimated corpses, dependent on each other for survival, live a life of solitude until a power-hungry magistrate tricks a group of villagers into attacking their lonely castle, fulfilling an ancient prophecy: The Orgy of Blood.
Playful biopic that rips up chronology and frequently tears down the fourth wall so that we’re never sure if we’re going to be the ones looking into the fishbowl of his life or the ones being inspected.
The life of the writer Franz Kafka, from his birth to his death.
The limited time given to each of the short films means that there is little opportunity to get really down and dirty with the number-crunching, so that for every aspect that is fascinating there is an attendant frustration.
Portmanteau documentary based on the best-selling book that promises to explore the "hidden side of everything".
On a whole different level from most films of its ilk.
Seven-year-old Chloe's father tells her to adopt an assumed identity if she’s ever separated from him, or to hide in a well-provisioned panic room if he should not return from one of his forays outside. But Chloe is determined to find out what exactly lies outside the door he's frightened of.
Where the film succeeds beyond expectation is in its depiction of the kids and how the tribal lines are drawn in areas of this city where drive-bys are as common as parking tickets.
How an idealistic, inexperienced teacher makes a difference in a Los Angeles ghetto high school.
Ideas take precedence over completed works both the for the artist himself and for those viewers who choose to engage, to make an emotional connection with those subtleties of colour.
A documentary about the Kinetic-Optic artist Carlos Cruz-Diez and his mission to free colour from shape.
In keeping with his previous work, Alvart invites us to find little islands of hope and warmth in an otherwise grim scenario, only to undermine them.
Two detectives investigate the disappearance of two teenage sisters in a remote town, where it seems like everyone has something to hide - including the bodies.
It will strongly appeal to those who want to educate themselves and work towards making animals’ lives better.
Millions of rescue dogs from the rural US South have been transported to new homes thanks to the tireless efforts of a grassroots network of dog rescuers. This documentary looks at how it works.
The final stretch, when Alex commences the climb, is some of the most nail-biting cinema you will ever see.
Following rock climber Alex Honnold as he seeks to be the first climber to ascend free solo – without safety ropes – the 3,000-foot cliff of El Capitan in California’s Yosemite Park.
You're guaranteed to leave this film feeling better than you did before it started.
A feature length documentary film following one man's search for random Americans concerned about an Islamic threat who are prepared to travel and meet Egyptians face to face.
In many ways Fremont is advocating the importance of accepting that a life can be both average and fulfilling.
Donya works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Formerly a translator for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, she struggles to put her life back in order. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in a cookie.
A vivid technicolour medley that touches on the intense relationship between art and the artiste, while showcasing some dazzling costumes and dance routines in true homage to the Belle Epoque.
A club impresario makes a laundry girl the star of his can-can revival show.
It all has a very particular flavour. Even a new one.
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th Century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in the French Dispatch magazine.
It's an old story, but rarely has it been this appealingly told.
A geeky underachiever finds his life turning around when the prettiest girl in his class declares an interest in him - but both are nervous, and they soon discover that relationships are fragile things.
Boaz Yakin's debut is so assured and individual, it clears away debris from those better known in the 'hood to create an authentic work of genuine quality.
The raw edge of survival for a 12-year-old black kid in the projects who runs for the dealers and stays tuned to the psychology of success.
Achieves remarkable poignancy for something so irreverent.
Barry is a drug-addled, abusive bastard who - after yet another bender - is abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as an alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town.
When an author dies, his best friend is left to deal with his literary legacy, his three former wives and a dog who isn't supposed to be allowed in her Manhattan apartment.
It's the sort of film that couples should enjoy equally; there's serious eye candy whatever your preference, and the film's energy and good humour is infectious.
Two ambitious young people find that sleeping together with no emotional complications is trickier than they anticipated.
Dudley has a deep understanding of the visual language of the genre, and viewers who know the period well will be delighted by some of the images he presents.
1937: young Emily is trapped in a nightmare. Chronic agoraphobia and a strange, domineering mother have turned their sprawling gothic mansion into a prison. On the brink of madness, she's haunted by lurking malevolent forces, her only hope that her missing father might save her. But as she longs for his return, she's tormented by visions of a sinister, gnarled black hand—a spectre haunting her earliest memories.
Collier has created a portrait of the festival that will delight its longstanding fans yet which is thorough and insightful enough to be of interest to outsiders too.
A documentary about the FrightFest festival and its contribution to supporting horror, science fiction and fantasy cinema.
What's noticeable about Gillespie's version is how little really has to change to make it work.
Is horror movie addict Charley Brewster’s suave new nextdoor neighbour Jerry Dandridge really an evil vampire responsible for a string of recent deaths?
Somewhere between the slightly dull first 40 minutes, and the head-smackingly stupid final reel, it's briefly a heady, sensual and amoral guilty pleasure.
The main performers are not bad, but overall this feels like a missed opportunity.
A recovering drug addict, desperate for closure and saddled by crushing guilt after the disappearance of her young son, is presented with a bizarre offer to learn the truth about what happened and set things right - if she is willing to pay a terrifying price.
The stories are highly personal and individual. It is the background observations, as much as anything, that makes the experience of viewing them sequentially crushing, and leaves one in awe of the fortitude of people still surviving there.
A collection of 22 short films made in Gaza, giving Gazan filmmakers the chance to tell the untold stories about the current war.
Classic portrait of military life on Hawaii just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor - plus one of cinema's most famous romances. Back on the big screen.
This non-sensationalist approach allows much more room to address the psychological effects of prison life itself, whilst emphasising the mundanity of much of what happened under the Nazis.
In Berlin 1942, Hilde finds her place within an anti-Nazi resistance group as gradually as she falls in love with one of its members. The two spend an unforgettable summer until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.
The film provides a journey through US gun culture as experienced not by politicians or lobbyists but by ordinary people.
Guns, explosions, musical numbers, zombies, tanks and Youtube. Thousands of hours of YouTube videos turned into a bizarre cocktail to show us the most extreme, wild and crazy gun-loving Americans. But what if they are just ordinary Americans?
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Going ape
Antonin Niclass on character creation, empathy and animated short Into The Forest
Freeform
Will Niava on grief, new immigrant experiences and Jazz Infernal
In silence
Emir Kumova on child marriage in Türkiye, moral challenges and making The Witness
