Allan Hunter
Reviews‘The Last Spy’ review: CIA spymaster Peter Sichel shares his eye-opening life story
Katharina Otto-Bernstein’s extensive documentary follows Sichel’s involvement in key moments of 20th-century history
Reviews‘Saturn’ review’: Transilvania non-fiction winner paints complex portrait of fractured Spanish family
Director Daniel Tornero turns the camera inwards for his What’s Up, Doc? winning debut
Reviews‘Bright Future’ review: Romanian documentary revisits 1989 Pyongyang Festival of Youth and Students
Andra MacMasters’ archival essay named best debut feature in Transilvania’s Romanian Days
Reviews‘The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo’ review: Un Certain Regard winner is set in 1980s Chile
AIDS is making its presence felt within an alternative community in the mining region
Reviews‘Caravan’ review: A mother and her disabled son take to the road in Italy
Czech debut from Zuzana Kirchnerova is born from her own personal experience and her Cinefondation-winning short
Reviews‘Nino’ review: A cancer diagnosis prompts a weekend of reckoning in tender French drama
Theodore Pellin won the Critics’ Week Rising Star Award for his ‘soulful’ performance in Pauline Loques’ debut feature
Reviews‘Kika’ review: A grieving woman turns to sex work in Belgian Critics’ Week debut
Alexe Poukine’s tonally-ambitious feature-length debut is balanced by a sensitive performance from Manon Clavel
Reviews‘Aisha Can’t Fly Away’ review: A Cairo careworker finds herself caught up in local gang tensions
Morad Mostafa’s feature debut mixes drama and magical realism
Reviews‘Love Letters’ review: Drama charts lesbian couple’s rocky road to parenthood in 2014 France
Alice Douard’s confident feature debut stars Mona Rumpf and Monia Chokri
Reviews‘Wild Foxes’ review: Samuel Kircher lands a punch in school boxing drama
Kircher headlines Valery Carnoy’s thoughtful Directors’ Fortnight debut
Reviews‘Her Will Be Done’ review: A young woman faces an ancient evil in rural French horror
Polish actor Maria Wrobel impresses in Julia Kowalski’s atmospheric second feature
Reviews‘The Girl In The Snow’ review: Louise Hemon turns to drama with a story from her own family’s past
Documentarian’s debut is beautifully based in the Hautes Alpes
Reviews‘Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk’ review: Gaza documentary is a poignant final testimony
Sepideh Farsi’s ACID film pays tribute to its subject Fatma Hassona, killed in Gaza in April
Reviews‘Promised Sky’ review: Follow-up to ‘Under The Fig Trees’ opens Un Certain Regard
Three migrants struggle to make a home in Tunisia in Erige Sehiri’s engaging drama
Reviews‘The Vanishing Point’ review: How Iran’s 1979 revolution unleashed generational trauma in one family
Their memories become an act of resistance in Visions du Reel ‘Burning Lights’ winner
Reviews‘The Last Shore’ review: The aftermath of the tragic death of a Gambian migrant
Jean-Francois Ravagnan’s debut traces the impact of Pateh Sabally’s 2017 death in Venice
Reviews‘To The West, In Zapata’ review: Life on the extremes in pandemic-era Cuba
David Bim’s hypnotic black-and-white documentary debuts at Visions du Reel
Reviews‘Flophouse America’ review: Poverty, addiction and one-room living wreak havoc on a child’s life
Close-quarters doc is a study of a family on the margins
Reviews‘Shifting Baselines’ review: Behind the scenes at Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starbase
Boca Chica, Texas lives with the thrills and unquantifiable spills of the space race
Reviews‘The Big Chief’ review: Close-up on controversial Red Army spy Leopold Trepper
‘1970’ director Tomasz Wolski deploys archive footage to document wartime double agent