Best of Festivals
The most talked-about films of the year from the world’s leading festivals. The best of Cannes, Venice, Berlin and other festivals – award-winning works, critics’ favourites and films not to be missed.
The most talked-about films of the year from the world’s leading festivals. The best of Cannes, Venice, Berlin and other festivals – award-winning works, critics’ favourites and films not to be missed.
Set high in the mountains, fall comes to an end and a family prepares for the long winter ahead.
We cannot choose the family we are born into, but sometimes we find exactly the kind of family we need.
A musician from a family of musicians returns to Los Angeles. A love letter to the music of the movies.
Survivors of the Rwandan genocide discuss the meaning of justice and the possibility of reconciliation.
A tragicomedy about ordinary people trapped between corruption, family loyalty and the collapse of moral certainty.
A richly observed portrait of love, resilience, and the enduring strength of Sámi women in northernmost Europe.
Is it possible to love two people at once without eventually having to choose one and give up the other?
An architect’s marriage is tested after he accepts a project to build a bunker for a billionaire.
Wild elephants, rigid hierarchies, strict vows and chosen families within the Kinnar community in Nepal.
A tender portrait of the inner world of a jazz genius as he learns that sometimes an intermission is part of the music.
A grieving mother and her daughter’s boyfriend grapple with guilt, grief and forgiveness whilst on holiday together.
A tense, yet moving story from Iran about a society trying to survive the current political conditions.
Thomas Mann returns to Germany after years of exile. Is he a traitor to his homeland, or a saviour of its culture?
Set in sweaty Beirut, Rami Kodeih’s impressive thriller follows two sisters in need of money for an important surgery.
Violence erupts at a football final, leading to an international crisis in this superbly tense drama.
Sylvester Stallone writes the ultimate underdog story and must fight for his chance to play the role of a lifetime.
A gay influencer’s life crumbles when a virus turns gay men in Paris straight.
After 8-year-old Josephine witnesses a brutal assault in Golden Gate Park, she begins to experience fear and paranoia.
A melancholy but stirring coming-of-age story about young love and sexual tension against the backdrop of Vesuvius.
A stagnant 40-year marriage is shaken when their daughter announces her engagement to an older industrialist.
A successful young artist’s career derails, forcing her back to her hometown.
A brave, taut and explosive thriller from Andrey Zvyagintsev that brilliantly melds the personal and the political.
A female sniper returns to the battlefield to rescue her younger sister from ISIS captivity.
Sorogoyen returns with his unique mastery of emotional tension with a powerful family drama starring Javier Bardem.
“Three existences” that are connected through themes of sexuality, desire, pain, and inheritance.
When an unassuming housewife is cast in a community theater production, she loses herself in the role.
A love story where the boundaries between presence and absence, care and dependence, desire and control blur until they dissolve.
The story of a woman who saved Fyodor Dostoevsky and became the first woman to set up her own publishing house.
On a remote Scottish isle, the lives of two siblings change when an awkward official arrives to relocate them.
In the white utopia of Apartheid South Africa, a boy’s summer holiday becomes a test of his love for his father.
A mother arrives at her daughter’s apartment to confess a lie that undermines their family’s foundation.
The peaceful life of Violette is disrupted when a local police chief’s arrival uncovers long-buried secrets.
A burglar finds a dead man in a flat and, as she traces the man’s life, begins to imagine a new future for herself.
An audacious comedic fable about sex, marriage, and the absurdities of social convention.
CIA agents Chris and Lee face a trust-testing mission from Santiago to Easter Island during 1973 in Chile.
Two sisters must sacrifice themselves to prevent further bloodshed and ensure peace amongst two Bedouin tribes.
An emotional story of friendship between two outsiders who find in each other the courage to become who they truly are.