Boyd van Hoeij
Reviews‘The Girls We Want’ review: Inner-city kids fumble in Marseille-set debut
The return of a prodigal daughter upsets the balance in Prïncia Car’s collaborative Directors Fortnight title
Reviews‘Militantropos’ review: The invasion of Ukraine through the prism of everyday life
Observational documentary starts in 2022, taking a Wiseman-like approach to a country at war
Reviews‘Imago’ review: Critics’ week doc looks at a Chechen enclave in Georgia
Filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev visits the picturesque Pankissi valley in search of his roots
Reviews‘I Only Rest In The Storm’ review: Pedro Pinho visits neo-colonialism in Guinea-Bissau
A Portuguese engineer becomes embroiled with two locals while working in Guinea-Bissa
Reviews‘Lesbian Space Princess’ review: Queer Australian animation could be a crowdpleaser
Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese’s debut is set in a gaylaxy far, far away
Reviews‘Ari’ review: Léonor Serraille delivers an engaging Rohmer-style drama
Lille-set piece is the third film from the director of ’Montparnasse Bienvenue’
Reviews‘Night Stage’ review: Sexy queer drama from Brazil has thematic smarts to match
Felipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon’s third feature premieres in Berlin’s Panorama
Reviews‘La Jetée, The Fifth Shot’: DOK Leipzig Review
Meandering doc explores a personal connection to Chris Marker’s 1962 short La Jetée
Reviews‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’: Review
A kooky contemporary French riff on the famed 18th century British novelist
Reviews‘Edge Of Night’: Hamburg Review
A confident debut from Cologne-born director Türker Süer marks the director out as a talent to watch
Reviews‘The Quiet Son’: Venice Review
A solid Vincent Lindon dominates this disappointingly apolitical film about a French youth enthralled by the far right
Reviews‘Finally’: Venice Review
The 51st feature from French maestro Claude Lelouch is a playful ‘greatest hits’ musical fable
Reviews‘Vermiglio’: Venice Review
Maura Delpero’s second feature is an accomplished, restrained family drama set in the Italian Alps during the Second World War
Reviews‘My Everything’: Venice Review
Call My Agent!’s Laure Calamy stars in Anne-Sophie Bailly’s well-acted if one-sided debut feature