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  The Summer With Carmen

  Review preview for The Summer With Carmen

  With a lesser canine star, the film would not have worked, but Nala is sensational.

  While enjoying a day at Athens’ queer beach, 30-something Demosthenes offers to help his bestie and aspiring filmmaker Nikitas in drafting an idea for his feature debut, inspired by the events surrounding a certain dog named Carmen.
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  Sebastian

  Review preview for Sebastian

  Having set up all the elements of a thriller, the film proceeds to untangle them in a refreshingly different and mature way.

  Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.
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  Merchant Ivory

  Review preview for Merchant Ivory

  Whether you’re a fan of the company’s work specifically or simply interested in the history of cinema, this portrait of its longest-lasting partnership will delight and entertain you.

  The story of cinema's longest lasting partnership.
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  Alok

  Review preview for Alok

  Hedison’s lens cannot show us everything. The film requires viewers to be as open as possible, to really listen and reflect.

  A documentary portrait of Alok Vaid-Menon, the internationally acclaimed non-binary author, poet, comedian and public speaker.
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  The Judgment

  Review preview for The Judgment

  Intriguing in its ideas but a little heavy-handed in the application.

  An Egyptian gay couple return from the US to Egypt for a family emergency. When they fall prey to witchcraft intended as punishment for their homosexual sins, one of them falls into religious terror and exposes his unhealed past.
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  Duino

  Review preview for Duino

  The relationship between fiction and memory, artifice and life undergoes subtle shifts over the course of di Pace’s tale.

  An Argentinian filmmaker struggling to finish a movie about his unrequited first love receives an unexpected invitation to reconstruct his memories, revisit his past and perhaps even find a new ending to his story.
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  Meanwhile

  Review preview for Meanwhile

  Gund’s poetic approach enables this documentary to go where others could not, to capture the existential effects on people of colour of day to day life in a white supremacist culture.

  A poetic, non-linear journey that explores the impact of white supremacy on connection, relationships, and life.
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  Gondola

  Review preview for Gondola

  It has the sweetness – and cartoonish violence – of a wholesome Sixties family film, albeit with a European attitude to nudity.

  Two female cable car operators fall in love as they pass each other in their gondolas.
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  Carnage For Christmas

  Review preview for Carnage For Christmas

  Mackay succeeds where [others] have failed partly because there is a deep vein of sincerity beneath the playful surface of her work.

  When true-crime podcaster and sleuth Lola visits her hometown for the first time since running away and transitioning, the local urban legend, The Toymaker, is the least of her worries. But then the vengeful ghost of the historical murderer seemingly rises again.
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  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.

  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.

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Features

• Life in full colour
  Fawzia Mirza on intergenerational connection, Bollywood, queerness and The Queen Of My Dreams
• Making filmmaking fun
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• Cathedral in the sand
  Brian J Smith on his love for the Pines and A House Is Not A Disco
• A sporting chance
  Julia Fuhr Mann on exploring athletic bias and looking beyond the binary in Life Is Not A Competition, But I'm Winning