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‘Deaf’ review: A new baby poses challenges for her hearing-impaired mother in Spanish debut
Dir/scr: Eva Libertad. Spain. 2024. 99mins.
The arrival of a brand new child places a pressure on the connection between a deaf girl and her...
‘Where The Night Stands Still’ review: Modest Filipino domestic helper drama is set in rural Italy
Dir/scr. Liryc Dela Cruz. Italy/Philippines 2025. 75mins
The tensions of exile and servitude are performed out in deceptively low-key style in The place The Evening Stands Nonetheless, an Italy-set...
‘Köln 75’ review: Lively re-staging of a 1975 jazz show is a showcase for actor Mala Emde
Dir/scr: Ido Fluk. Germany/Belgium/Poland 2025. 115mins.
Köln 75 just isn't strictly a jazz film – however then, as Ido Fluk’s movie retains telling us, the improvised music...
‘Punching The World’ review: A fresh take on German radicalisation
Dir/scr: Costanze Klaue. Germany. 2025. 110mins
The methods by which the provinces of former East Germany grew to become, after reunification, seedbeds of xenophobia and...
‘The Ice Tower’ review: Marion Cotillard stars in Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Snow Queen re-take
Dir: Lucile Hadzihalilovic. Fr/Ger. 2025. 118mins
Numerous diversifications and appropriations – amongst them Disney’s Frozen – have diluted the sheer weirdness of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy...
‘How To Be Normal’ review: Peppy debut from Austria tackles mental illness
Dir/scr: Florian Pochlatko. Austria. 2025. 102mins.
Psychological sickness could be a tough factor to get proper in any artwork kind. In his peppy debut characteristic,...
‘Islands’ review: Sam Riley, Stacy Martin scorch in Canary Islands suspense
Dir. Jan-Ole Gerster. Germany. 2025. 123mins
Germany’s Jan-Ole Gerster bleaches his noir to the bone in Islands, a knotty Hitchcock-tinged drama set in in a parched...
‘Reflection In A Dead Diamond’ review: Fast and frenetic movie geek nostalgia
Dir. Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani. Belgium/Luxembourg/France/Italy 2025. 87mins
Hardcore modernists dedicated to residing prior to now, Brussels-based duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani have created their very...
‘All I Had Was Nothingness’ review: A powerful ‘Shoah’ through the eyes of its maker
Dir. Guillame Ribot. France. 2025. 94mins
Shoah (1985) is an uncompromising ‘stare into the black solar of the Shoah’ which took 12 years for director Claude...
‘Hysteria’ review: Tense German satirical thriller eyes breakout status
Dir/scr: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay. Germany. 2025. 104mins
It needs to be a golden alternative. Latest college graduate Elif (Devrim Lingnau) has scored an intern place...