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‘The Helsinki Effect’ review: Timely doc revisits pivotal East/West summit
Dir/scr: Arthur Franck. Finland/Germany/Norway. 2025. 88mins
In the summertime of 1975, with the icy fingers of the Chilly Struggle nonetheless exerting a good grip on...
‘Lowland Kids’ review: America’s first climate refugees prepare to leave their Louisiana home
Dir/scr: Sandra Winther. Denmark/USA. 2025. 99mins
The Louisiana bayou neighborhood of Isle de Jean Charles is a magical place, nestling amongst bountiful rivers, beneath honey-kissed...
‘The Redemption’ review: Daniel Guzman, Luis Tosar star in Madrid-set social drama
Dir/scr: Daniel Guzman. Spain/Romania. 2024. 115mins
An engrossing tackle a small-time criminal who finds himself out of his depth as he tries to stop his...
‘Ready Or Not’ review: Irish rites-of-passage debut is lively and vital
Dir: Claire Frances Byrne. Eire. 2024. 83mins
What begins as a jaunty, coming of age romp steadily darkens into one thing extra disturbing in Prepared...
‘That Summer In Paris’ review: Tender debut plays out as the city hosts the 2024 Olympics
Dir: Valentine Cadic. France. 2025. 77mins
Valentine Cadic’s debut function That Summer time In Paris reveals the fragile contact and light-weight, ethereal method that immediately...
’Gen_’ review: A Milan hormone specialist treats fertility and gender issues
Dir: Gianluca Matarrese. France/Switzerland/Italy. 2025. 104mins
The worlds of IVF therapy and gender affirmation might look like uncommon bedfellows however they arrive collectively below the...
‘The Goals Of August’ review: Doc follows football tournament in a sleepy Greek village
Dir: Dimitris Koutsiabasakos. Greece. 2025. 117mins
Excessive up northern Greece’s Pindus mountains lies a sequence of villages which, for the previous 40 years, have held...
‘Hallow Road’ review: Babak Anvari drives dangerously with Rosamund Pike, Matthew Rhys
Dir. Babak Anvari. Eire/Czech Republic, 2025. 80mins
Regardless of its vaguely-generic title, this well-crafted close-quarters suspense from British-Iranian director Babak Anvari is firmly-written, -shot and...
‘Ari’ review: Léonor Serraille delivers an engaging Rohmer-style drama
Dir/scr: Léonor Serraille. France/Belgium. 2025. 88mins
Lyon-born director Léonor Serraille, who received the Digicam d’Or for finest debut in Cannes in 2017 with Montparnasse Bienvenue, returns...
‘The Good Sister’ review: Siblings face down an accusation of rape in sharp German debut
Dir. Sarah Miro Fischer. Germany/Spain. 2025. 97mins
For chaotic, unanchored Rose (Marie Bloching), a nurse in a prenatal unit, her older brother Sam (Anton Weil)...