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Cheltenham International Film Festival — A–Z of films

2024

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  • The Crime Is Mine
    Review preview for The Crime Is Mine

    A sugary delight with a delightfully bitter aftertaste.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    When a glamorous but talentless young actress is accused of murdering a sleazy producer, her aspiring lawyer friend spies a money-making opportunity.

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  • Dr. Cheon And The Lost Talisman
    Review preview for Dr. Cheon And The Lost Talisman

    A supernaturally themed thriller which also delivers a healthy supply of laughs, this is a wild ride from start to finish.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    The story of a fake exorcist, Dr. Cheon, who is commissioned to look into the case of a girl who is strongly possessed.
  • Girls Will Be Girls
    Review preview for Girls Will Be Girls

    Panigrahi is pitch perfect in her debut role.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.
  • The Golden Harvest
    Review preview for The Golden Harvest

    Yunis, who is also a novelist, covers a lot of ground here but it never feels as though we are only being served up the easy route.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Consideration of the history of olives and olive oil manufacture.

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  • Memories Of Murder
    Review preview for Memories Of Murder

    The film is well made and the humour delicately balanced between corruption and farce.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Foolish cops investigate South Korean serial killer.
  • My Old Ass
    Review preview for My Old Ass

    Park captures the web of life tensions that don’t just stop when we’re teenagers, particularly the pull of the new versus the attraction of nostalgia.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    The summer before college, bright-yet-irreverent Elliott comes face-to-face with her older self during a mushroom trip. The encounter spurs a funny and heartfelt journey of self-discovery and first love as Elliott prepares to leave her childhood home.
  • The Outrun
    Review preview for The Outrun

    Distances of time and space are collapsible in Fingscheidt’s hands.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands - where she grew up - hoping to heal.
  • Poetry
    Review preview for Poetry

    Veteran actress Yun Jeong-hie, who came out of a 15-year retirement to take on the role of Mija brings a fragile beauty and strength to the part, lending her character an air of inscrutability that is intriguing rather than frustrating.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A grandmother discovers poetry and begins to reassess the world around her.
  • Porcelain War
    Review preview for Porcelain War

    A tactile and colour-infused film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.

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  • Reawakening
    Review preview for Reawakening

    The narrative deals profoundly with grief as well as loss which will assuredly resonate with most of us.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    Tension mounts for a couple when a woman claiming to be their daughter, who went missing 10 years before, arrives back in their lives.
  • A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things
    Review preview for A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things

    A fascinating portrait of a woman ahead of her time.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    Consideration of the painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.
  • Timestalker
    Review preview for Timestalker

    Lowe’s approach is an exhiliarating, if sometimes a bit scrappy, mix of high and low brow.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A woman continuously seeks out the presumed love of her life across time, in one incarnation after another.
  • The Universal Theory
    Review preview for The Universal Theory

    Multiverses have become a box office staple lately, courtesy of Marvel and the like, but they are rarely as elegantly mounted as this retro and twisty little mystery from Timm Kröger.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    1962. A physics congress in the Alps. An Iranian guest. A mysterious pianist. A bizarre cloud formation in the sky and a booming mystery under the mountain.