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‘Death Does Not Exist’ review: Animation follows young activists into battle
Dir/scr: Felix Dufour-Laperrier. Canada/France. 2025. 72mins
The strain between social duty and private preservation takes centre stage on this Canadian French animation, whose expressive hand-drawn...
‘Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk’ review: Gaza documentary is a poignant final testimony
Dir: Sepideh Farsi. France/Palestine/Iran. 2025. 110mins
This celebration of resilience was remodeled right into a poignant final testimony by the dying of Gaza resident and...
‘The Girl In The Snow’ review: Louise Hemon turns to drama with a story from her own family’s past
Dir: Louise Hemon. France. 2025. 96mins
There's nothing extra harmful than an informed, unbiased lady in Louise Hemon’s atmospheric winter’s story. Impressed by parts of...
‘Brand New Landscape’ review: Debut explores a Tokyo family in crisis
Dir: Yuiga Danzuka. Japan. 2025. 115mins
Two siblings have very totally different emotional reactions to attainable reconciliation with their estranged father in Yuiga Danzuka’s first...
‘A Pale View Of Hills’ review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel gets tangled between Japan and the UK
Dir/scr: Kei Ishikawa. Japan/UK/Poland. 2025. 123mins
The autumn-out from the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki has an afterlife that extends by generations on...
‘Left-Handed Girl’ review: Sean Baker-backed family drama is set on the bustling streets of Taipei
Dir: Shih-ching Tsou. Taiwan/France/USA/UK. 2025. 109mins
Returning to her native Taiwan from her US residence, common Sean Baker collaborator Shih-Ching Tsou channels the color and chaos...
‘Case 137’ review: Lea Drucker anchors Dominik Moll’s police corruption drama
Dir: Dominik Moll. France. 2025. 116mins
In Case 137, a French Inner Affairs officer investigates police misconduct through the 2018 yellow vests protests, solely to...
‘Sirât’ review: Oliver Laxe’s long strange trip stars Sergi López
Dir. Oliver Laxe. Spain/France 2025. 115 minutes.
The newest from French-Spanish director Oliver Laxe, Sirât is the proverbial lengthy, unusual journey. Half journey, half mystic-existential odyssey, it's the...
‘The President’s Cake review’: Quinzaine crowd-pleaser is set in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
Dir/scr: Hasan Hadi. Iraq/US/Qatar. 2025. 102 minutes.
It could include fairy-tale substances, together with a dangerous lottery, a pet cockerel confidante and kids on a...
‘Amrum’ review: Fatih Akin directs coming-of-age drama set in 1945 Germany
Dir: Fatih Akin. Germany. 2025. 93mins
In his retelling of the Dr Faustus legend, written in 1947 with Germany nonetheless reeling from its latest defeat, German...