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Glasgow Film Festival · 2025

Glasgow Film Festival 2025

Official Selection

Programme

60 films · 27 reviews

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Baby Assassins: Nice Days (Baby Walkure: Naisu Deizu)

Review preview for Baby Assassins: Nice Days

For fans of martial arts cinema, this is a must see.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
On a working holiday in Miyazaki, the teenage killers find themselves up against a deadly freelancer.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Sakamoto Yugo; Writer: Sakamoto Yugo; Stars: Takaishi Akari, Izawa Saori, Maeda Atsuko, Ikematsu Sôsuke, Otani Mondo, Kaibashira)

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Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story

Review preview for Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story

An overflowing life is presented to us through archival interviews and film clips, and most revealingly through on-camera insights from O’Brien herself.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
A portrayal of Irish writer Edna O'Brien's writing, loves, stardom, and unconventional life.

(Country: Ireland; Year: 2024; Director: Sinéad O'Shea; Stars: Edna O'Brien, Jessie Buckley, Declan Conlon, Gabriel Byrne)

Full review See: Sinéad O’Shea on Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story

Bob Trevino Likes It

After searching for her estranged father online, a people-pleasing young woman unexpectedly forms a close bond with a grieving, childless man with the same name as her father on Facebook. Inspired by a true story.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Tracie Laymon; Writer: Tracie Laymon; Stars: Barbie Ferreira, John Leguizamo, French Stewart, Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer, Rachel Bay Jones)

Boys Go To Jupiter

Review preview for Boys Go To Jupiter

Though likely a little too whimsical for some, Boys Go To Jupiter seems destined to develop a cult following.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Suburban Florida is transformed into a 3D animated wonderland in this musical comedy.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Julian Glander; Writer: Julian Glander; Stars: Jack Corbett, Grace Kuhlenschmidt, Elsie Fisher, Janeane Garofalo, Miya Folick, Tavi Gevinson, Julio Torres, Sarah Sherman, Chris Fleming, Cole Escola, Joe Pera, River L. Ramirez, Demi Adejuyigbe, Eva Victor, Max Wittert)

Full review See: Interview with Julian Glander about Boys Go To Jupiter

Daniela Forever

Follows a man as he joins a sleep trial that allows him to rebuild his life with his girlfriend who died in an accident through the use of lucid dreams.

(Country: Spain, US, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Nacho Vigalondo; Writer: Nacho Vigalondo; Stars: Henry Golding, Beatrice Grannò, Aura Garrido, Rubén Ochandiano, Nathalie Poza)

Desire: The Carl Craig Story

Portrait of the techno producer.

(Country: Switzerland, UK; Year: 2024; Director: Jean-Cosme Delaloye; Writer: Jean-Cosme Delaloye; Stars: Carl Craig, Laurent Garnier, Roni Size, Kenny Larkin, James Lavelle, Moodymann, Gilles Peterson, Moritz Von Oswald)

Dogtooth (Kynodontas)

Review preview for Dogtooth

Don't read this review... simply go and see it, for if ever there was a film that is best experienced without knowing a single detail, this unforgettable oddity from Greece is the one.

Andrew Grant · 4.5 out of 5
Three siblings cut off from society spend their lives trapped in their family’s home.

(Country: Greece; Year: 2009; Director: Yorgos Lanthimos; Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos; Stars: Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis, Anna Kalaitzidou)

Full review See: Efthymis Filippou talks about his career in Valencia

Dreams

Review preview for Dreams

Øverbye makes a compelling lead, taking on the chunks of voiceover without any problem but also excelling in terms of conveying her character’s moods via body language

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Johanne’s intimate writings about her crush on her teacher ignite both tension and self-reflection within her family, as her mother and grandmother confront their own unfulfilled dreams and desires.

(Country: Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Dag Johan Haugerud; Writer: Dag Johan Haugerud; Stars: Ane Dahl Torp, Selome Emnetu, Anne Marit Jacobsen, Ingrid Giæver, Valdemar Dørmænen Irgens, Ella Øverbye, Silje Breivik, Karina Sjøen, Lars Jacob Holm, Andrine Sæther, Nora Hagstrøm, Ammar Banewais, Brynjar Åbel Bandlien, Marja Folde, Sari Kader)

Full review See: Dag Johan Haugerud: 'When you fall in love, you get very self-obsessed'

Dying (Sterben)

Review preview for Dying

Dying is full of glorious contradictions, many of which occur within the same conversation

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
Ensemble drama about members of an estranged family.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Matthias Glasner; Writer: Matthias Glasner; Stars: Lars Eidinger, Saskia Rosendahl, Ronald Zehrfeld, Corinna Harfouch, Anna Bederke, Lilith Stangenberg, Kailas Mahadevan, Tom Böttcher, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Robert Gwisdek, Jens Weisser, Karmela Shako, Sidney Fahlisch, Christopher Köberlein, Alina Hidic)

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Electric Child

(Country: Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Philippines; Year: 2024; Director: Simon Jaquemet; Writer: Simon Jaquemet; Stars: Elliott Crosset Hove, Rila Fukushima, Sandra Guldberg Kampp, João Nunes Monteiro, Helen Schneider, Greg Orvis, Lotte Milder, Engji Blickensdorfer)

The End

Review preview for The End

It’s ironic that a film about a family who have built a perfect facsimile of a life for themselves should feel so overly constructed itself

Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
After the sudden arrival of a stranger, Girl, threatens Mother and Father's family’s luxurious compound deep underground, Son begins to question their seemingly perfect existence.

(Country: Denmark, Ireland, Germany, Italy, UK, US; Year: 2024; Director: Joshua Oppenheimer; Writer: Rasmus Heisterberg, Joshua Oppenheimer; Stars: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, Moses Ingram, George MacKay, Tim McInnerny, Lennie James, Bronagh Gallagher, Danielle Ryan)

Full review See: Joshua Oppenheimer and George Mackay on dystopian musical The End

The Extraordinary Miss Flower

(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard; Writer: Stuart Evers; Stars: Emiliana Torrini, Caroline Catz, Angus Sampson, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe, Nick Cave, Mark Monero, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Viva Seifert, Niall Murphy, Mara Carlyle, Siggi Baldursson, Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir, Simon Byrt, Liam Hutton)

Four Mothers

(Country: Ireland; Year: 2024; Director: Darren Thornton; Writer: Colin Thornton, Darren Thornton; Stars: James McArdle, Fionnula Flanagan, Dearbhla Molloy, Stella McCusker, Paddy Glynn, Gaetan Garcia, Niamh Cusack, Gearoid Farrelly, Rory O'Neill, Adam Fergus, Gordon Hickey, Eloka Ivo, Leonora Lonsdale, Kim Daly, Nicola Devine)

From Hilde, With Love

Review preview for From Hilde, With Love

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.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
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.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Andreas Dresen; Writer: Laila Stieler; Stars: Liv Lisa Fries, Johannes Hegemann, Sina Martens)

Full review See: Interview with Andreas Dresen about From Hilde, With Love

Gazer

A young mum with a rare degenerative condition that affects the way she perceives time takes a job from a mysterious woman.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Ryan J Sloan; Writer: Ariella Mastroianni, Ryan J Sloan; Stars: Marcia DeBonis, Ariella Mastroianni, Emma Pearson, LeJon Woods, Grant Schumacher, Jack Alberts, Frank Huerta, Laris Macario, Sheilagh Weymouth, Annie Pisapia, Renee Gagner, Jarrett Austin Brown, Luis Arroyo Jr., Tommy Kang, Jeremy Cohen)

Ghostlight

When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson; Writer: Kelly O'Sullivan; Stars: Dolly De Leon, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Keith Kupferer, Tara Mallen, David Bianco)

Ghost Killer

After being possessed by the ghost of vengeful hit man Kudo, college student Fumika Matsuoka agrees to help him finish his quest for vengeance from beyond the grave.

(Country: US, Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Kensuke Sonomura; Writer: Yugo Sakamoto; Stars: Akari Takaishi, Mario Kuroba, Masanori Mimoto)

Gloria!

Set in a girls' boarding school in Venice at the end of the 18th century, the film tells the story of a woman who creates an extraordinary piece of music.

(Country: Italy, Switzerland; Year: 2024; Director: Margherita Vicario; Writer: Anita Rivaroli, Margherita Vicario; Stars: Galatéa Bellugi, Carlotta Gamba, Veronica Lucchesi, Maria Vittoria Dallasta, Sara Mafodda, Paolo Rossi, Elio, Natalino Balasso, Anita Kravos, Vincenzo Crea, Jasmin Mattei, Gioele Pagura)

Harvest

Review preview for Harvest

At times the discomfort that Harvest causes is not from dirt or despair but the room it leaves for interpretation.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.

(Country: UK, Germany, US, France, Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari; Writer: Joslyn Barnes, Jim Crace, Athina Rachel Tsangari; Stars: Harry Melling, Caleb Landry Jones, Frank Dillane, Arinzé Kene, Rosy McEwen, Grace Jabbari, Thalissa Teixeira, Stephen McMillan, Gordon Brown, Emma Hindle, Mitchell Robertson, Neil Leiper, Noor Dillan-Night, Gary Maitland, Logan Buchanan)

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Hill

A documentary about F1 champion Damon Hill and his fellow F1 champion father Graham, who died in a plane accident went Hill was a teenager.

(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Alex Holmes; Stars: Damon Hill, Georgie Hill)

Homegrown

Review preview for Homegrown

Premo never imposes an overt framing narrative, but interesting things emerge.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Three Trump supporters from different backgrounds unite to campaign across America in 2020, advocating for his re-election while laying foundations for what they hope will be a long-lasting political movement.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Michael Premo; Stars: Thad Cisneros, Randy Ireland, Chris Quaglin, Enrique Tarrio)

Full review See: Interview with Michael Premo and Rachel Falcone about Homegrown

Homegrown

Francis raises his son like he cultivates his plants, shielded from harm, comfortable inside. However when the boy outgrows his father's protective confines, Francis is faced with an uncomfortable truth.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Quentin Haberham; Writer: Tim Fraser, Quentin Haberham)

In Vitro

Review preview for In Vitro

The plot is not the film’s strongest point, but it functions well enough as a device through which to explore a troubled relationship.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A woman living with her husband on a remote farm in the near future discovers that he has been keeping a big secret.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2024; Director: Will Howarth, Tom McKeith; Writer: Will Howarth, Tom McKeith, Talia Zucker; Stars: Will Howarth, Talia Zucker, Ashley Zukerman)

Full review See: Interview with Will Howarth and Talia Zucker about In Vitro

I Do Not Come To You By Chance

A student is lured into a web of deceit by his charismatic uncle.

(Country: Nigeria; Year: 2023; Director: Ishaya Bako; Writer: Chika Anadu, Ishaya Bako; Stars: Paul Nnadiekwe, Funny Bone, Blossom Chukwujekwu, Francis Duru, Jennifer Eliogu, Uche Mac-Auley, Emeka Nwagbaraocha, Sambasa Nzeribe, Beverly Osu, Norbert Young)

Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.

A Brooklyn young woman, smart, witty, and confident, is not just another teenager on the NYC subway. Determined to make it out of her neighbourhood and become a doctor, she confronts adversity while navigating challenging waters to achieve her dreams and goals.

(Country: US; Year: 1992; Director: Leslie Harris; Writer: Leslie Harris; Stars: Ariyan A Johnson, Kevin Thigpen, Ebony Jerido, Chequita Jackson, Jerard Washington, Tony Wilkes, Karen Robinson, Johnny Roses, Kisha Richardson, Monet Dunham, Wendell Moore, William Badgett, Laura Ross, Rasha Mella, Ron L. Cox)

Kill The Jockey (El Jockey)

A jockey embarks on a new identity after an accident but a mobster is on his tail.

(Country: Argentina, Spain, United States, Mexico, Denmark; Year: 2024; Director: Luis Ortega; Writer: Fabian Casas, Luis Ortega, Rodolfo Palacios; Stars: Úrsula Corberó, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Mariana Di Girólamo, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Roly Serrano, Luis Ziembrowski, Daniel Fanego, Roberto Carnaghi, Osmar Núñez, Adriana Aguirre)

The Kingdom (Le Royaume)

Father and daughter relationship drama set on Corsica in the Nineties.

(Director: Julien Colonna)

The Last King Of Scotland

Review preview for The Last King Of Scotland

It is a brave film that portrays Idi Amin not simply as a monster, but as a complex individual.

Steve Harwood · 4 out of 5
Ugandan dictator's rise to power as seen through the eyes of a young doctor.

(Country: UK; Year: 2006; Director: Kevin Macdonald; Writer: Jeremy Brock, based on the novel by Giles Foden; Stars: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Simon McBurney, David Oyelowo, Abby Mikiibi Nkaaga, Adam Kotz)

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Love (Kjærlighet)

Marianne, a doctor, and Tor, a nurse, avoid relationships. After meeting on a ferry where Tor seeks casual encounters, Marianne explores the possibility of spontaneous intimacy, questioning societal norms.

(Country: Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Dag Johan Haugerud; Writer: Dag Johan Haugerud; Stars: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen, Marte Engebrigtsen, Lars Jacob Holm, Thomas Gullestad, Marian Saastad Ottesen, Morten Svartveit)

The Luckiest Man In America

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Samir Oliveros; Writer: Maggie Briggs, Samir Oliveros; Stars: Paul Walter Hauser)

McVeigh

Review preview for McVeigh

Ott’s interest is not in creating an accurate depiction of exactly what happened in the run-up to the Oklahoma City bombing, but rather in exploring the thought processes behind it.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
Over days and nights, McVeigh eats, sleeps, watches the news, meets a girl… all while inside his mind brews an unthinkable plan that will forever change the collective American psyche.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Mike Ott; Writer: Mike Ott, Alex Gioulakis; Stars: Alfie Allen, Brett Gelman, Ashley Benson, Anthony Carrigan, Tracy Letts)

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Meanwhile On Earth (Pendant Ce Temps Sur Terre)

Review preview for Meanwhile On Earth

There’s a sweet, melancholy flavour to Clapin’s work.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Siblings Elsa and Franck were very close. Since Franck disappeared during a space mission three years ago, Elsa has struggled to move on with her life. Until one day she is contacted by an unidentified life form.

(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Jérémy Clapin; Writer: Jérémy Clapin; Stars: Megan Northam, Dimitri Doré, Sébastien Pouderoux, Catherine Salée, Sam Louwyck, Roman Williams, Sofia Lesaffre, Nicolas Avinée, Yoann Thibaut Mathias, Arcadi Radeff, Sabine Timoteo, Marie Bray, Christian Bouillette)

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Mexico 86

Review preview for Mexico 86

Diaz has drawn partially on his relationship with his own mother and the specificity of place and time also help the tensions to feel authentic.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A woman tries to juggle being a revolutionary with motherhood.

(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2024; Director: César Díaz; Writer: César Díaz; Stars: Bérénice Béjo, Matheo Labbé, Leonardo Ortizgris, Julieta Egurrola)

Full review See: César Díaz on bringing Mexico 86, his personal tale of revolution and maternal instinct, to the screen , Bérénice Bejo on why Mexico 86 is close to her heart

Motel Destino

Review preview for Motel Destino

In this hothouse, madness easily exerts its grip.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A young drifter finds shelter in a seedy motel and embarks on a dangerous love affair.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2024; Director: Karim Aïnouz; Writer: Wislan Esmeraldo, Mauricio Zacharias; Stars: Fábio Assunção, Nataly Rocha, Iago Xavier)

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My Dead Friend Zoe

Engaged in a mysterious relationship with her wise-cracking (and dead) best friend from the Army, a female veteran is summoned to the remote lake house of her estranged Vietnam vet grandfather.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Kyle Hausmann-Stokes; Writer: Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, AJ Bermudez; Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Gloria Reuben)

The New Year That Never Came

Six seemingly disconnected lives intersect in unexpected ways as Romania stands on the brink of resolution.

(Country: Romania; Year: 2024; Director: Bogdan Muresanu; Writer: Bogdan Muresanu; Stars: Adrian Vancica, Nicoleta Hâncu, Emilia Dobrin, Iulian Postelnicu, Manuela Harabor, Victoria Raileanu, Razvan Vasilescu, Mihai Calin, Gabriel Spahiu, Ioana Flora, Elvira Deatcu, Nicodim Ungureanu, Vlad Ionut Popescu, Andrei Miercure, Marian Râlea)

Nocturnal

Thriller about an ex-con gang member whose fresh start is threatened by his brother's death.

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Kim Jin-hwang; Writer: Kim Jin-hwang; Stars: Kim Chan-hyung, Yoo Da-in, Park Jong-hwan, Ha Jung-woo, Jeong Man-sik, Kim Nam-gil, Im Sung-jae, Heo Sung-tae)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

A criminal pleads insanity because he thinks time on a mental health ward will be easy... but he sparks rebellion once he sees the conditions there.

(Country: US; Year: 1975; Director: Milos Forman; Writer: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, Ken Kesey, Dale Wasserman; Stars: Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks, Alonzo Brown, Scatman Crothers, Mwako Cumbuka, Danny DeVito, William Duell, Josip Elic, Lan Fendors, Louise Fletcher, Nathan George, Ken Kenny, Mel Lambert, Sydney Lassick)

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (o brother where art thou, o brother)

Review preview for O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Comic invention rides shotgun on a screenplay that runs wild.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
Chain gang escapees in Deep South emulate a comic Odyssey.

(Country: US; Year: 2000; Director: Joel Coen; Writer: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen; Stars: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Burke Nelson, Holly Hunter, John Goodman)

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Peaches Goes Bananas

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Shot over 17 years, it mingles intimate personal moments with visceral concert footage, its musical sequences knitted together with some of the best editing you’re likely to see this year.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
From sold-out concerts to family moments with her parents and sister, the passage of time brings loss but also provides liberation for an artist whose body is a canvas for artistic expression.

(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Marie Losier; Stars: Peaches, Suri Nisker, Marlene Saldana)

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Planet B (Planète B)

France, 2039. One night, a group of activists pursued by the state vanish without a trace. Julia Bombarth is one of them. When she awakens, she finds herself trapped in an entirely unfamiliar world: Planet B.

(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Aude Léa Rapin; Writer: Aude Léa Rapin; Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Souheila Yacoub, Eliane Umuhire, India Hair, Marc Barbé, Paul Beaurepaire)

The Players

Review preview for The Players

A moody, unsettling piece.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A teenager finds herself caught up in a web of tangled power dynamics when she joins a theatre group.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Sarah Galea-Davis; Writer: Sarah Galea-Davis; Stars: Stefani Kimber, Eric Johnson, Jess Salgueiro)

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Queens (Reinas)

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A confident and well-constructed tale that is built on the firm foundations of a great ensemble cast.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Lucia, Aurora, and their mother, Elena, plan to leave Lima in 1992 and seek opportunities in the US. Their farewell involves reconnecting with the kids' estranged father, adding to the emotional turbulence of their departure.

(Country: Switzerland, Peru; Year: 2024; Director: Klaudia Reynicke-Candeloro; Writer: Klaudia Reynicke-Candeloro, Diego Vega Vidal; Stars: Susi Sánchez, Gonzalo Molina, Luana Vega, Jimena Lindo, Abril Gjurinovic)

Full review See: Family ties: Klaudia Reynicke on bringing her own emotions to Reinas

Quiet Life

Sweden, 2018. A mysterious syndrome affecting refugee children is sparking concerns among doctors and politicians. This drama follows a family affected.

(Country: France, Greece, Germany, Estonia, Sweden; Year: 2024; Director: Alexandros Avranas; Writer: Stavros Pamballis, Alexandros Avranas; Stars: Chulpan Khamatova, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Naomi Lamp, Miroslava Pashutina, Eleni Roussinou, Lena Endre, Alicia Eriksson, Kristjan Üksküla)

Red Path (Les Enfants Rouges)

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Achour does a fine job of binding us to his adolescent hero’s perspective, as the boy tries to process the death and what it means within the limited framework of ideas available to him.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
After two young shepherds are attacked on a mountainside, Achraf, 14, is ordered to take the severed head of his cousin Nizar back to their family as a macabre message.

(Country: Tunisia; Year: 2024; Director: Lotfi Achour; Writer: Lotfi Achour; Stars: Eya Bouteraa, Wided Dabebi, Latifa Gafsi)

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The Return

Review preview for The Return

Fiennes is lean in look and in performance, bringing an intensity that proves compelling.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca after returning from the Trojan war.

(Country: Italy, UK; Year: 2024; Director: Uberto Pasolini; Writer: John Collee, Edward Bond, Uberto Pasolini; Stars: Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzari, Claudio Santamaria, Ángela Molina)

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Rita

Drama following the life of working-class siblings Rita and Lolo during the European football championships.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Paz Vega; Writer: Paz Vega; Stars: Paz Vega, Roberto Álamo, Sofía Allepuz, Alejandro Escamilla)

Sew Torn

A seamstress has the chance to pursue three destinies after she stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong: commit the perfect crime, call the police, or simply drive away.

(Country: Switzerland, US; Year: 2024; Director: Freddy Macdonald; Writer: Fred Macdonald; Stars: Eve Connolly, Calum Worthy, John Lynch, K Callan, Ron Cook, Thomas Douglas, Caroline Goodall, Werner Biermeier, Veronika Herren-Wenger, Petra Wright)

Sharp Corner

When a man's new home proves to be a road accident blackspot, he becomes increasingly obsessed with preparing for the next one.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Jason Buxton; Writer: Jason Buxton, Russell Wangersky; Stars: Cobie Smulders, Ben Foster, Gavin Drea, Alexandra Castillo, Gita Miller, Jonathan Watton, Reid Price, Dan Lett, Alexandra McDonald, Bob Mann, Andrew Shaver, William Kosovic, Julia Dyan, Mark A. Owen, Wayne Burns)

Showgirls

With lifelong dreams of becoming the world’s greatest topless dancer, tempestuous Nomi sets her sights on the Stardust Hotel.

(Country: France, US; Year: 1995; Director: Paul Verhoeven; Writer: Joe Eszterhas; Stars: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon)

Some Nights I Feel Like Walking

When an old man dies the sex worker he was with decides to fulfil his last wish.

(Country: Philippines, Italy, Singapore; Year: 2024; Director: Petersen Vargas; Writer: Petersen Vargas; Stars: Jomari Angeles, Argel Saycon, Tommy Alejandrino, Gold Aceron, Miguel Odron)

Stationed At Home

Review preview for Stationed At Home

The beautiful cinematography, the bluesy jazz score and the gentle pace of the film are beguiling, but Masciari makes sure that we don’t lose sight of the ridiculous.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
On Christmas Eve a cab driver is counting down to seeing the International Space Station... but his night will hold a series of encounters with strangers first.

(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Daniel V Masciari; Writer: Jackson Jarvis, Vincent Krohn, Daniel V Masciari; Stars: Erik Bjarnar, Jamie Donnelly, Scott Williams, Lyle Schneider, Misty Monroe, Alek Osinski, Andy Rich, Hugo Gallo, Drea Berg, Jon Cesar, Jeff DuMont, Eliza VanCort, Marissa Accordino, Darryle Johnson, Eric Kincaid Endres, Elijah Brown)

Full review See: Interview with Daniel V Masciari and Eliza VanCort about Stationed At Home

Stealing Pulp Fiction

Offbeat comedy heist sees a pair of buddies plan to steal Quentin Tarrantino's personal copy of Pulp Fiction.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Danny Turkiewicz; Writer: Danny Turkiewicz; Stars: Matt Adams, Jason Alexander, Chris Barry, Oliver Cooper, Alex Crawford, Cazzie David, Elin Hampton, Taylor Hill, Skip Howland, Eric Michael Kochmer, Suni M!, Brooke McCormick, Alex Morand, Daniel Robison, Jon Rudnitsky)

Super Happy Forever

It's summertime. Sano, whose wife Nagi died recently, is staying at a seaside hotel in Atami with Miyata, his best friend. Overcome by grief and nostalgia for the place, strangely, he starts looking for a red cap that Nagi had once misplaced. Five years earlier. Nagi, a young photographer on a sightseeing trip to the same hotel, meets Sano. As the days go by, they grow closer and fall in love. Before leaving, Sano gives her a red cap.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Kohei Igarashi)

The Surfer

Review preview for The Surfer

The heat is omnipresent, rippling through the air, distorting what we see, distorting time and identity.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
Humiliated in front of his son by a surf gang, a man gets drawn into an escalating conflict.

(Country: Australia, US; Year: 2024; Director: Lorcan Finnegan; Writer: Thomas Martin; Stars: Nicolas Cage, Nicholas Cassim, Alexander Bertrand, Justin Rosniak, Rahel Romahn, Finn Little, Charlotte Maggi, Nina Young, James Bingham, Rory O'Keeffe, Talon Hopper, Miranda Tapsell, Radek Jonak, Austen Wilmot, Jake Fryer-Hornsby)

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The Swedish Torpedo

The story of Sally Bauer, a Swedish mother who pursues her dream of swimming the English Channel before the Second World War envelops Europe.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2024; Director: Frida Kempff; Writer: Frida Kempff, Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten; Stars: Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Lisa Carlehed, Gunnel Fred, Josefin Neldén, Emilie Kroyer Koppel, Henning Valin Jakobsen, Seidi Haarla, Hanna Ullerstam, Claes Ljungmark, Ivar Forsling, Cecilia Milocco, Gary Whitaker, Claes Hartelius, Jonathon Sawdon, Magnus Af Sandeberg)

U Are The Universe

Review preview for U Are The Universe

Given that U Are The Universe is practically a one-man-play, Volodymyr Kravchuk masterfully commands the screen combining his knack for humour with a strong sense for drama.

Marko Stojiljkovic · 3.5 out of 5
In the distant future, a space trucker from Khmelnytskyi is trying to get rid of over three billion tons of waste. When he hears from a woman on a distant space station, he becomes determined to reach her.

(Country: Ukraine, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Pavlo Ostrikov; Writer: Pavlo Ostrikov; Stars: Volodymyr Kravchuk, Daria Plahtiy, Alexia Depicker, Leonid Popadko)

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Went Up The Hill

When the estranged son of a woman who has just died arrives at her wake, he and her former partner find themselves alternately possessed by the dead woman while they sleep.

(Country: New Zealand, Australia; Year: 2024; Director: Samuel Van Grinsven; Writer: Samuel Van Grinsven; Stars: Vicky Krieps, Dacre Montgomery, Sarah Peirse)

Zero

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Well shot and well paced, Zero has a lot to offer in spite of its twee moments.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Two Americans find themselves in Dakar, Senegal with bombs strapped to their chests and ten hours to find out why.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jean Luc Herbulot; Writer: Jean Luc Herbulot, Hus Miller; Stars: Gary Dourdan, Moran Rosenblatt, Hus Miller, Annabelle Lengronne, Cam McHarg)

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