All articles by Boyd van Hoeij
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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‘The Burning Giants’ review: Shape-shifting Thai displacement drama blurs myth and reality
’Manta Ray’ director Phuttiphong Aroonpheng turns his attention to marginalised S’gaw community in ambitious third feature
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Reviews‘Citizen Osama’ review: A Palestinian journalist balances war reportage with family life in harrowing Gaza doc
Ahmed Hassouna’s Venice out of competition title has been selected as Palestine’s official Oscar submission
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Reviews‘Love Lessons’ review: A retired teacher finds he has a lot to learn in Martin Provost’s light, unsurprising French drama
Fabrice Luchini, Emmanuelle Devos, Chiara Mastroianni and Carole Bouquet star in the Locarno Piazza Grande premiere
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Reviews‘Alive’ review: Actress-filmmaker Aina Clotet’s grounded debut channels personal and global anxiety
Clotet’s Critics’ Week title delivers a controlled study of illness, impulse and the fear of time running out
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Reviews‘A Family’ review: Mees Peijnenburg follows ‘Paradise Drifters’ with fractured portrait of messy divorce
Lukas Dhont co-produces the uneven Dutch drama, which stars Carice van Houten
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Reviews‘Bearcave’ review: Lyrical, overlong debut follows two queer women in rural Greece
Venice Giornate degli Autori Europa Cinemas Label winner makes its home debut at Thessaloniki
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Reviews‘Last Night I Conquered The City Of Thebes’ review: Intriguing Spanish debut explores platonic male intimacy
Galicia’s ancient Roman baths make an atmospheric setting for this wordy drama
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Reviews‘Gorgona’ review: Dystopian Greek queer feminist fable is entertaining but uneven
Evi Kalogiropoulou’s debut plays Thessaloniki after its Venice Critics Week debut
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Reviews‘Another Man’ review: A gay man suffers an identity crisis in intimate, earnest Catalan drama
David Moragas’s authentic follow-up to ‘A Stormy Night’ premieres in Thessaloniki
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Reviews‘Beachcomber’ review: ‘Dogtooth’ star Christos Passalis anchors enigmatic Greek coastal drama
Director Aristotelis Maragkos was inspired by the work of symbolist sailor-poet Nikos Kavvadias
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Reviews‘The Last One For The Road’ review: Francesco Sossai’s bittersweet comedy-drama follows a trio of Italian drinkers
Italy’s fading Veneto region plays host to Sossai’s effective arthouse drama
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Reviews‘Whitetail’ review: Natasha O’Keeffe impresses in Nanouk Leopold’s haunting Irish drama
The Dutch director’s latest feature plays Thessaloniki after its Toronto premiere
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Reviews‘Barrio Triste’ review: Colombian-American photographer Stillz sets his debut in 1980s Medellin
Harmony Korine produces the unfocused feature about disaffected kids, which premieres in Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘Lost Land’ review: Two young siblings from Myanmar journey alone in search of a better life
Well-intentioned Venice Horizons title from Japanese filmmaker Akio Fujimoto is first-ever Rohingya-language feature
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Reviews‘The Last Viking’ review: Mads Mikkelsen stars in Anders Thomas Jensen’s wry Danish comedy
Mikkelsen plays the traumatised brother of a criminal looking for his loot
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Reviews‘Calle Malaga’ review: Carmen Maura stars in Maryam Touzani’s tame Tangier-set domestic drama
Moroccan filmmaker Touzani follows ‘The Blue Caftan’ with a predictable story about finding things to live for in old age
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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
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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
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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