Film festivals

“The way we watch has changed enormously, but the power of storytelling remains exactly the same”: Cécile Menoni on 65 years of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival

As we touch down in Monaco for our first-ever Monte-Carlo Television Festival, we are bursting with excitement to see what this eminent celebration of...

Lesley Manville heads eclectic jury line-up for Monte-Carlo Television Festival

The editorial unit

Kristin Scott Thomas, Kurt Russell and rising stars to be honoured at Monte-Carlo Television Festival

The editorial unit

Monte-Carlo Television Festival returns for landmark 65th edition

The editorial unit

A Man of His Time

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Berlinale
Salvation

★★★★★

A Kurdish village in Eastern Turkey is split in two: Upper Pingan, on the mountain,...

Selina Sondermann 20^th February
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Berlinale
Josephine

★★★★★

In a veritable display of saving the best for last, the final film premiering in...

Selina Sondermann 20^th February
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Berlinale
Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird)

★★★★★

In Yo, documentary filmmaker Anna Fitch and her partner Banker White accompany her octogenarian friend Yolanda...

Selina Sondermann 20^th February
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Cinema & Tv
“My main concern is the story I’m telling – not the place where it takes place”: Abderrahmane Sissako on Black Tea at Berlinale 2024

The gentle rhythms of Black Tea might make the film too laid-back for some audiences,...

Oliver Johnston 28^th February

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Cannes
A Man of His Time

★★★★★

Emmanuelle Marre’s A Man of His Time opens in September 1940 at a drunken gathering...

Christina Yang 30^th May
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Cannes
The Man I Love

★★★★★

Ira Sachs’s The Man I Love opens with a premise that seems deceptively familiar: a...

Christina Yang 25^th May
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Cannes
Goodbye, Cruel World

★★★★★

It’s an eerily familiar spectacle. A reserved, dark-haired teenage boy (Otto, played by Milo Machado-Graner...

Thomas Messner 25^th May
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Cinema & Tv
“Cate Blanchett told me Tár was not only the story of a conductor. And our film was not only about a conductor”: Benjamin Lavernhe on The Marching Band at Cannes Film Festival 2024

Tár star Cate Blanchett gave French actor Benjamin Lavernhe an important tip before taking his...

Mark Worgan 22^nd May

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Venice
Cotton Queen

★★★★★

Set in a Sudanese village where harvests and histories are deeply entwined, Suzannah Mirghani’s Cotton...

Christina Yang 6^th September
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Venice
100 Nights of Hero

★★★★★

Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero, adapted from Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel, ought to be...

Christina Yang 6^th September
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Venice
Silent Friend

★★★★★

There is an urban legend in the world of film journalism stating that Terrence Malick...

Jan Tracz 6^th September
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Venice
“The coma is a pretext to tell the immobility of people stuck in their routine”: Valerio Mastandrea interview on Feeling Better

Valerio Mastandrea’s latest film, Feeling Better, takes audiences on a poignant and imaginative exploration of...

Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor 17^th September

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LFF
Orwell: 2+2=5

★★★★★

Orwell: 2+2=5 nods to one of Nineteen Eighty-Four’s most chilling ideas rather than the novel’s...

Christina Yang 21^st October
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LFF
Finding Optel

★★★★★

Set in an unassuming Cape Town neighbourhood alive with gossip, generosity and good humour, Finding...

Christina Yang 19^th October
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LFF
Black Rabbit, White Rabbit

★★★★★

Black Rabbit, White Rabbit begins with an instantly recognisable scenario: a film armourer suspects that...

Christina Yang 18^th October
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LFF
Bird: On the red carpet with Nykiya Adams, Jason Buda, James Nelson-Joyce and Frankie Box at London Film Festival 2024

The Upcoming hit the red carpet during London Film Festival for the premiere of Bird,...

Sarah Bradbury 23^rd October

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Glasgow
Broken English

★★★★★

“Marianne died before we could finish this,” Tilda Swinton states directly into the camera towards...

Andrew Murray 5^th March
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Glasgow
The Curse

★★★★★

Ever since Sadako crawled out of the TV during the climax of Ringu, curses and...

Andrew Murray 5^th March
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Glasgow
Effi O Blaenau

★★★★★

Adapted from Gary Owen’s one-woman play, Iphigenia in Splott, Marc Evans’s Welsh-language feature Effi O...

Andrew Murray 3^rd March
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Cinema & Tv
“There are no bangs and flashes; it’s just a story about how we treat each other”: James Cosmo on My Sailor, My Love at Glasgow Film Festival 2023

Veteran actor James Cosmo (Braveheart, Highlander, His Dark Materials) stars opposite Brid Brennan and Catherine...

Andrew Murray 9^th March

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Film festivals
Kneecap

★★★★★

An indigenous language dies once every 40 days, and with it goes a sense of...

Guy Lambert 11^th June
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Cinema & Tv
Dìdi: On the red carpet with Sean Wang, Carlos Lopez and Valerie Bush at Sundance London 2024

This feature debut from filmmaker Sean Wang is a coming-of-age drama set in the 2000s...

Ezelle Alblas 10^th June
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Cinema & Tv
Sundance London 2024: On the red carpet with Emerald Fennell

As Sundance Film Festival 2024 celebrates its 40-year anniversary, actor and filmmaker Emerald Fennell was...

Ezelle Alblas 10^th June
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Film festivals
Skywalkers: A Love Story

★★★★★

“We’re telling a love story,” so the self-designated “rooftopper” Angela Nikolau declares of the social...

Thomas Messner 7^th June

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Movie
Marrakech Film Festival 2024: Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano, the prize-winning second feature film from...

Andrew Murray 8th December 2024
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Movie
Marrakech Film Festival 2024: The Wolves Always Come at Night
★★★★★

A seamless blend of fiction and documentary...

Andrew Murray 8th December 2024
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Movie
Marrakech Film Festival 2024: Silent Storms
★★★★★

Alongside being heavily associated with evil spirits and jump scares,...

Andrew Murray 8th December 2024
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Movie
Marrakech Film Festival 2024: One of Those Days When Hemme Dies
★★★★★

Directed by and starring Murat Fıratoğlu in his...

Andrew Murray 8th December 2024

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Glasgow
Last Straw
★★★★★

A night of terror awaits the manager of a small-town diner in Last Straw, the...

Andrew Murray 9th March 2024
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Glasgow
Edge of Summer
★★★★★

Lucy Cohen delivers a tender coming-of-age tale bristling with angsty...

Andrew Murray 8th March 2024
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Glasgow
Coup!
★★★★★

Writing and directing duo Joseph Schuman and Austin Stark create a giddy and darkly...

Andrew Murray 8th March 2024
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Glasgow
Cold
★★★★★

An icy chill runs through Erlingur Thoroddsen’s eerie murder mystery Cold. The film...

Andrew Murray 5th March 2024
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Glasgow
Blue Sunshine
★★★★★

The feature debut from writer-director Samyuktha Vijayan, Blue Sunshine is a...

Andrew Murray 4th March 2024
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Glasgow
The Burning Season
★★★★★

Every year Tom (Joe Pingue) and his wife Alena (Sara Canning) spend part...

Andrew Murray 3rd March 2024
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Glasgow
The G
★★★★★

Dale Dickey stuns as no-nonsense grandmother Ann (aka The G) in writer-director Karl...

Andrew Murray 29th February 2024
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Glasgow
The Cemetery of Cinema
★★★★★

In The Cemetery of Cinema, Guinean filmmaker Thierno Souleymane...

Andrew Murray 29th February 2024
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Glasgow
Milk Teeth
★★★★★

Adapted from the book of the same name by Helene Bukowski, Sophia Bösch’s...

Andrew Murray 28th February 2024
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Berlinale
Henry Fonda for President
★★★★★

No, the American actor Henry Fonda never ventured from the red...

Oliver Johnston 28th February 2024

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