Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor

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    Cotton Queen
    ★★★★★

    Set in a Sudanese village where harvests and histories are deeply entwined,...

    Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor 6th September 2025
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    100 Nights of Hero
    ★★★★★

    Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero, adapted from Isabel Greenberg’s...

    Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor 6th September 2025
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    Human Resource

    Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s Human Resource flows with the rhythms of...

    Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor 3rd September 2025
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    Mother
    ★★★★★

    Teona Strugar Mitevska’s Mother is not a conventional biopic of Mother Teresa but...

    Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor 3rd September 2025
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    The Stranger
    ★★★★★

    Based on Albert Camus’s seminal novella, translated into The Stranger...

    Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor 2nd September 2025
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    Orfeo

    Orfeo (Luca Vergoni) is playing piano at the club he performs at when he sees...

    Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor 2nd September 2025
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    Venice
    Portobello
    ★★★★★

    Premiering at Venice before its HBO Max release, Marco Bellocchio’s Portobello...

    Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor 2nd September 2025
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    Orphan
    ★★★★★

    In Orphan, László Nemes fixes his unsparing gaze on 1957 Budapest, a city still raw...

    Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor 1st September 2025
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    Il Maestro
    ★★★★★

    Andrea Di Stefano’s Il Maestro turns the conventions of the sports film on its...

    Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor 1st September 2025
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    Milk Teeth

    Set in Romania in 1989, at the tail-end of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s dictatorship,...

    Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor 1st September 2025