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‘It Was Just An Accident’ review: Jafar Panahi confronts the Iranian injustice system head-on
Dir/scr: Jafar Panahi. Iran/France/Luxembourg. 2025. 103mins
A person (Ebrahim Azizi), his closely pregnant spouse (Afssaneh Najmabadi) and their younger daughter (Delmaz Najafi) are driving late...
‘Little Amelie’ review: Life in 1960s Japan through the eyes of a Belgian toddler
Dirs/scr: Mailys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han. France. 2025. 76mins
The awakening consciousness of slightly Belgian lady born in Japan is recounted to charming and typically profound impact...
‘A Private Life’ review: Rebecca Zlotowski directs Jodie Foster in her first French-speaking lead
Dir: Rebecca Zlotowski. France. 2025. 105mins
One among a number of pleasures to be gleaned from Rebecca Zlotowski’s odd, uneven, likeable whodunnit is seeing Jodie...
‘Fuori’ review: Mario Martone, Valeria Golino zoom in on ‘Art Of Joy’ author Goliarda Sapienza
Dir: Mario Martone. Italy/France. 2025. 115mins
Fuori is a typically participating, typically self-indulgent story of an Italian feminine author’s unorthodox journey in the direction of...
‘Militantropos’ review: The invasion of Ukraine through the prism of everyday life
Dirs: Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi. Ukraine/Austria/France. 2025. 111mins
On a regular basis life in Ukraine is the topic of the documentary Militantropos, which observes...
‘Girl On Edge’ review: Friendship turns to rivalry in Chinese figure skating drama
Dir/scr: Zhou Jinghao. China. 2025. 108mins
Chinese language determine skater Jiang Ning (Zhang Zifeng) faces a make-or-break competitors underneath the cruel and unforgiving eye of...
‘The Disappearance Of Josef Mengele’ review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s drama tracks post-War life of the SS ‘Angel of Death’
Dir. Kirill Serebrennikov. France/Germany 2025. 136mins
Josef Mengele was the doctor and SS officer whose horrific experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz earned him the sobriquet...
‘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...
‘Tell Her I Love Her’ review: Romane Bohringer confronts her own past in convoluted hybrid feature
Dir: Romane Bohringer. France. 2025. 92 minutes
Motherhood and reminiscence intertwine in Romane Bohringer’s complicated, if at occasions convoluted, docufiction hybrid. Initially meant as a...
‘Homebound’ review: Neeraj Ghaywan’s empathetic Indian drama is backed by EP Martin Scorsese
Dir/scr: Neeraj Ghaywan. India. 2025. 117mins.
Does being homebound point out remaining the place one is, or does it recommend travelling again to at least...