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Reviews‘Black Church Bay’ review: Tom Cullen and Joe Locke impress in intense Welsh LGBTQ+ thriller
Rhys Marc Jones’s feature debut premieres in Zurich competition before playing Busan and London
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Reviews‘The Ideas’ review: Six witty vignettes power director/star Fabian Stumm’s slice-of-life German anthology
Angela Winkler and Maren Eggert join an ensemble cast for Stumm’s follow-up to ‘Sad Jokes’
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Reviews‘Call Me Queen’ review: Eliane Umuhire is magnetic in Emily Atef’s well-intentioned drama based on real-life Kenyan AIDS activists
The 1990s-set feature plays Hamburg before releasing in Germany in October
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Reviews‘The Other Side’ review: Nina Hoss gives a committed performance in pacy German survival thriller
Mariko Minoguchi’s follow-up to ‘Relativity’ is set in a dystopian post-pandemic world
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Reviews‘Children Of The Sun’ review: Four German youngsters attempt to create a sexual utopia in poetic, puzzling Greece-set drama
Writer/director Leonie Krippendorff reunites with her ‘Cocoon’ strars Lena Urzendowsky and Jella Haase
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Reviews‘Adult Supervision’ review: A chaotic school trip is the setting for a study of flawed masculinity in astute Swedish debut
Alex Schulman’s feature has been selected as Sweden’s official Oscar submission
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Reviews‘Milo’ review: Marion Cotillard and Théodore Pellerin head moody, dramatically inert French thriller
The latest from veteran French filmmaker Nicole Garcia premieres in San Sebastian
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Reviews‘Saints’ review: Rising star Victoria Luengo brings spiky energy to uneven Spanish heist thriller
The second feature from Basque filmmaker Mikel Gurrea premieres in San Sebastian
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Reviews‘What Remains’ review: A couple head in different directions in meditative, visually striking Turkish road movie
Yesim Ustaoglu’s distinctive feature premieres in San Sebastian, and will be released in Turkey by Mubi
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Reviews‘Growth Of The Soil’ review: Herbert Nordrum and Asta Kamma August are exceptional in visceral Norwegian period drama
Hans Petter Moland’s deliberate, meticulous film has been selected as Norway’s official Oscar submission
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Reviews‘Ghost Song’ review: Fatih Akin’s San Sebastián opener is emotionally satisfying supernatural romance
A strong perormance from newcomer Mariam Dawoud anchors Akin’s tender Hamburg-set love story
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Reviews’Brace Your Heart’ review: Quietly powerful exploration of trauma and community in a remote Swedish mountain village
Amanda Kernell follows Charter and Sámi Blood with nuanced tale of a female Sámi reindeer herder struggling to make her mark
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Reviews‘Wild, Wild East’ review: Second World War thriller set in occupied Poland starts strong but can’t sustain its intrigue
Jan Holubek’s Venice Platform premiere is part Western, part noir.
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Reviews‘Ground Floor’ review: Absurdist Hungarian comedy effectively turns a run-down apartment block into state of the nation satire
Ádám Tompa stars in director Gábor Reisz’s follow-up to 2023 Venice Horizons winner Explanation For Everything
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Reviews‘Until The Day Ends’ review: Vivid if limited portrait of revolutionary youth in modern-day Serbia
Jelena Maksimović’s fiction debut relies heavily on the charisma of lead Jelena Maksimović
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Reviews‘Guria’ review: Textured community portrait finds humour and hardship in post-Soviet Georgia
Levan Koguashvili’s black-and-white Venice Spotlight title finds its own distinctive rhythm amid poverty and tradition
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Reviews‘A Good Little Soldier’ review: A magnetic Alba Rohrwacher anchors Stéphane Brizé’s study of toxic workplace culture
Vincent Lindon also stars in timely, darkly comic Venice competition title
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Reviews‘Dau’ review: Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s sprawling new installment in his conceptual project is an affecting study of Soviet tyranny
The Venice competition title follows previous features and a 2019 art installation
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Reviews‘I Matter’ review: Romanian children’s home drama is sometimes conventional, always authentic
Roma actress and filmmaker Alina Serban’s heartfelt feature bows in Venice Spotlight
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Reviews‘Bunker’ review: Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz navigate a marriage under siege in Florian Zeller’s elegant drama
Stephen Graham also stars in Zeller’s London-set Venice competition title