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Critics' Week
‘Sleepless City’ review: Coming-of-age drama set in Europe’s largest shanty town in Spain
Dir: Guillermo Galoe. Spain/France. 2025. 97mins.
Politics and poetry are fused to memorable impact in Guillermo Galoe’s function debut, the colourful, melancholy and immersive Sleepless Metropolis....
‘Imago’ review: Critics’ week doc looks at a Chechen enclave in Georgia
Dir: Déni Oumar Pitsaev. France/Belgium. 2025. 110mins
Chechen filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev directs his personal quest to know his roots, come to phrases together with...
‘Kika’ review: A grieving woman turns to sex work in Belgian Critics’ Week debut
Dir: Alexe Poukine. Belgium, France. 2025 110mins
Necessity is the mom of reinvention in Kika. The primary feature-length narrative from French-born, Belgium-based filmmaker Alexe Puokine follows...
‘Nino’ review: A cancer diagnosis prompts a weekend of reckoning in tender French drama
Dir/scr: Pauline Loques. France. 2025. 97mins
A bombshell medical prognosis prompts a younger man to replicate on life’s valuable presents in Nino, Pauline Loques’ delicately-handled debut...
‘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...
‘A Useful Ghost’ review: A haunted vacuum cleaner collides with Thailand’s recent past
Dir/scr: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke. Thailand/France/Singapore. 2025. 130 minutes.
If Yorgos Lanthimos relocated to Thailand his subsequent movie would possibly look one thing like critic, trainer, author...
‘Love Letters’ review: Drama charts lesbian couple’s rocky road to parenthood in 2014 France
Dir/scr: Alice Douard. France. 2025. 97mins
The pressures on a French lesbian couple anticipating their first youngster lie on the coronary heart of Love Letters....
Cannes Critics’ Week unveils prizes for 2025 edition
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s comedy-drama A Helpful Ghost has gained the Grand Prix within the impartial Critics’ Week sidebar in Cannes.
The movie was chosen by a...
‘Adam’s Sake’ review: Critics Week opens with tense hospital drama from ’Playground’s Laura Wandel
Dir: Laura Wandel. Belgium/France. 2025. 78 minutes.
Lucy (Léa Drucker) is a nurse on a paediatric unit in a busy unnamed hospital, the place we...
‘Reedland’ review: A violent crime rocks a rural Dutch community
Dir/scr: Sven Bresser. Netherlands/Belgium. 2025. 111mins
When ageing Dutch reed cutter Johan (Gerrit Knobbe) discovers the physique of a younger lady on his land, his...