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Playground

What the original French title Un Monde (“a world”) alludes to is that school – everything that happens inside the…

By Selina Sondermann
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A Hero

Iranian director of the acclaimed A Separation (Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film) Ashgar Farhadi brings to London Film Festival A…

By Emma Kiely
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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Three lovelorn episodes about “coincidence and imagination”, as described by writer-director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, comprise this wondrous, searching and…

By Joseph Owen
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The Phantom of the Open

Based on the true story of “The World’s Worst Golfer”, The Phantom of the Open stars Mark Rylance…

By Umar Ali
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The French Dispatch

Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this summer, and arrives at London Film…

By Selina Sondermann
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Great Freedom

Only this summer, during the European Championships, Germany’s goalkeeper was investigated by UEFA for wearing a rainbow captain’s…

By Selina Sondermann
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Lingui, the Sacred Bonds

Award-winning Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, who most notably received Venice’s Grand Special Jury Prize in 2006 for his…

By Mersa Auda
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Sundown

Neil Bennett (Tim Roth) and his family are on vacation in Acapulco, when Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg) gets a…

By Selina Sondermann
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Nitram

Based on the life of notorious Australian mass shooter, Martin Bryant, Nitram stars Caleb Laundry Jones as the…

By Umar Ali