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‘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...
’The Devil Smokes’ review: Potent Mexican debut tracks five siblings over a traumatic summer
Dir: Ernesto Martínez Bucio. Mexico. 2024. 97mins
Formally difficult and imaginative, Ernesto Martínez Bucio’s debut The Satan Smokes (And Saves The Burnt Matches In The...
‘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...
‘Shadowbox’ review: Indian debut boasts ‘storytelling of economy and elegance’
Dir. Tanushree Das, Saumyananda Sahi. India/France/USA/Spain. 2025. 93mins
Maya (Tillotama Shome) is accustomed to taking the lead in her marriage to Sundar (Chandan Bisht), a...
‘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...
‘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,...
’We Believe You’ review: Tense Belgian family custody drama is a knockout
Dirs/scr: Charlotte Devillers, Arnaud Dufeys. Belgium. 2025. 78mins
Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Dufeys’ gripping debut characteristic We Consider You captures all of the abdomen churning tensions...
‘The Settlement’ review: Egyptian debut is a bleak and dispiriting revenge thriller
Dir/scr: Mohamed Rashad. Egypt/France/Germany/Qatar/Saudi Arabia. 2025. 93mins
In a bleak and lawless nook of Alexandria, Egypt, a delinquent 23-year-old son is pulled again into the...
‘Two Times João Liberada’ review: Portuguese LGBTQ+ title is a niche debut
Dir: Paula Tomás Marques. Portugal. 2025. 70mins
A venture that walks the road between biographical drama and conceptual artwork piece, the experimental Portuguese LGBTQ+ ventureTwo Instances...