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‘A Year Of School’ review: A Swedish girl finds her way in an Italian all-male high school
Dir: Laura Samani. Italy/France. 2025. 103 minutes
Italian filmmaker Laura Samani offers with the load of expectation generated by her 2021 debut Small Physique by...
‘Lost Land’ review: Two young siblings from Myanmar journey alone in search of a better life
Dir/scr: Akio Fujimoto. Japan/France/Malaysia/Germany. 2025. 99mins
Two Rohingya siblings attempt to get from Rakhine State, Myanmar — the place this Muslim minority has been persecuted...
‘Divine Comedy’ review: Ali Asgari skewers Iranian cultural restrictions in witty satire
Dir: Ali Asgari. Iran/Italy/France/Germany/Turkey. 2025. 96mins.
Cineliterate, meta-textual and wryly sarcastic, the most recent movie by Ali Asgari is a free-wheeling, sharp-witted satire that unpeels...
‘Human Resource’ review: A pregnant worker navigates a hostile world in Thai drama
Dir/scr: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit. Thailand. 2025. 122 minutes.
Insightful and intimate beneath its chilly, stylised floor, Thai drama Human Useful resource performs on the resonance of...
‘Mother’ review: Noomi Rapace stars as Mother Teresa in one-dimensional biopic
Dir: Teona Strugar Mitevska. Belgium/North Macedonia/Sweden/Denmark/Bosnia & Herzegovina. 2025. 104mins
Looking for to create an origin story of types for the girl the world got...
‘The Kidnapping Of Arabella’ review: Chris Pine and Benedetta Porcaroli star in quirky Italian road movie
Dir/scr: Carolina Cavalli. Italy. 2025. 107mins
It's by no means simple to steer the boat of quirky absurdism previous the whirlpool of pretentiousness with out...
‘Familiar Touch’: Venice Review
Dir/scr: Sarah Friedland. US. 2024. 91mins
Ruth Goldman (Kathleen Chalfant) has been a spouse and mom, knowledgeable cook dinner and the creator of a number...
‘Happyend’: Venice Review
Dir. Neo Sora. Japan/USA 2024. 113mins
Oddly languid for a movie about youth unrest, Happyend is a low-key Japanese drama about friendship, revolt and standing as much as the...
‘Happy Holidays’: Venice Review
Dir/scr: Scandar Copti. Palestine/Germany/France/Italy. 2024. 124mins.
The day by day information cycle brings us limitless tales of inter-tribal battle. Typically the tribes are nation states,...
‘Pavements’: Venice Review
Dir. Alex Ross Perry. US. 2024. 128 minutes.
That US indie outfit Pavement was ‘The World’s Most Necessary and Influential Band’, as billed in Alex Ross...