All the films

My Wonderful Wanda

Don’t be misled by its title: Bettina Oberli’s satire is many things—intelligent, funny, caustic, beautifully directed and very c...

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

Funny, remarkably inventive, and romantic as hell—not just about romance itself, but about everything from youth, football, dogs, and ic...

Azor

Buenos Aires, 1980, at the height of the military dictatorship: Yvan De Wiel (Fabrizio Rongione), a private banker from Geneva, and ...

Bad Tales

Winner of the Best Screenplay Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2020, the D’Innocenzo brothers’ sophomore feature is a...

Bebia, a mon seul désir

Following the death of her grandmother (her ‘Bebia’), 17-year-old Ariadna (Anastasia Davidson) returns to Georgia. According to local tradition, she—as the...

The Book of Delights

The reputation of Clarice Lispector, one of Brazil’s most fêted writers, has skyrocketed in the last ten years, and...

Brother's Keeper

Winner of the International Critics prize in the Panorama section at this year’s Berlin festival, Ferit Karahan’s drama is s...

Celts

A suburb of Belgrade, 1993: frustrated wife and mother Marijana (Dubravka Duda Kovjanić) arranges her eight-year-old daughter’s birthday party while her...

Madalena

Against the vast fields of soy in Brazil’s Mato Grosso region, where ostrich-like rheas roam at will, a trans wo...

Moon, 66 Questions

At heart, this is a visually daring and beautifully acted story of rapprochement. After a long time away, disaffected twenty-something ...

Moving On

The spirit of Ozu and the observant eye of Kore-eda come to mind while watching young writer-director Yoon Dan-bi’s mo...

No Choice

Three woman—the homeless Golbahar (Pardis Ahmadieh), the relentless human-rights lawyer Sara Nedayi (Negar Javaherian), and the veteran gynaecologist Dr Pa...

No Rest for the Old Lady

The ‘old lady’ of the title is the recently deceased Smaranda, wife of the self-sufficient Emil (Mircea Andreescu), and confidante (and ...

Pebbles

Winner of the Tiger Award at this year’s IFFR, P.S. Vinothraj’s visceral father-son drama (remarkably, it’s his de...

The Siamese Bond

Mothers and daughters and the often-fraught ties that bind serve as the subject of Paula Hernández’s expressive drama. For...

Souad

Bassant Ahmed and Basmala Elghaiesh, both non-professionals acting in their first movie, shared the Best Actress prize at this year’s ...

A Voluntary Year

Often compared to Toni Erdmann (made by co-director Ulrich Köhler’s partner, Maren Ade) for its sardonic depiction of a f...