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Reviews‘Black Rabbit, White Rabbit’ review: Audacious, ambitious Tajiki time-loop drama unfolds in film studio
Chosen as Tajikistan’s official Oscar submission, Shahram Mokri’s feature now plays Red Sea Competition
Reviews‘Past Future Continuous’ review: IDFA Envision winner is poignant, formally daring family portrait
Directors Firouzeh Khosrovani and Morteza Ahmadvand explore the link between a US-based woman and her parents in Tehran
Reviews‘A Fox Under A Pink Moon’ review: Strong Afghan migrant doc blends phone footage and animation
Iranian filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei’s IDFA competition title follows a young Afghan artist attempting to journey to Europe
Reviews‘Silent Flood’ review: Lyrical portrait of a religious community in Ukraine is new angle on conflict
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s thoughtful docmentary plays IDFA competition
Reviews‘Amilcar’ review: Impressionistic study of Guinea-Bissau-born poet and revolutionary Amilcar Cabral
IDFA premiere uses archive footage and Cabral’s personal writings to paint a compelling portrait
Reviews‘Gaza’s Twins, Come Back To Me’ review: Impassioned doc follows a family trying to reunite in Gaza
Mohammed Sawwaf’s emotional second feature premieres at IDFA
Reviews‘The Prince Of Nanawa’ review: Rich, rewarding doc follows a Paraguayan boy from adolescence to adulthood
Clarisa Navas’s fascinating feature plays IDFA following its Visions du Reel Grand Jury prize win
Reviews‘Steal This Story, Please!’ review: Energetic doc follows dogged US journalist Amy Goodman
Feature from ’Trouble The Water’ filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin makes its international bow at IDFA
Reviews‘Palestine 36’ review: Palestine’s Oscar entry is stirring historical drama from Annemarie Jacir
Jacir’s lavish period epic is set against the background of Palestine’s 1936 Arab Revolt against British rule
Reviews‘Ish’ review: Black-and-white UK debut proves lyrical study of adolescent male friendship
Imran Perretta’s fresh drama plays London after winning Venice Critics Week Audience Award
Reviews‘Gavagai’ review: Ulrich Kohler splits his satirical drama between Senegal and Berlin
The writer/director’s latest revolves around a fictional film version of Medea being made in West Africa
Reviews‘Dog 51’ review: Cedric Jimenez’s high-octane thriller is set in a near-future Paris
Adele Exarchopoulos and Gilles Lellouche star in engaging Venice Film Festival closer
Reviews‘Bravo Bene!’ review: Sicily’s Franco Maresco puts himself at the centre of his meta-mockumentary
Surreal Venice Competition title is a layered satire of the director’s own inability to make a film.
Reviews‘Kim Novak’s Vertigo’ review: Affectionate documentary profiles the Hollywood legend and Hitchcock star
Director Alexandre O’ Philippe joins Novak for a look back at her career, and her most famous role
Reviews‘A Loose End’ review: Daniel Hendler’s cop-on-the-run comedy is a deadpan delight
The Uruguayan director’s third film stars Sergio Prina as an Argentinian policeman forced to flee over the border
Reviews‘Duse’ review: Italian auteur Pietro Marcello’s ambitious biopic of actress Eleonora Duse
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Noémie Merlant star in Marcello’s Venice Competition title
Reviews‘The Stranger’ review: Francois Ozon adapts 1940s Algeria-set novella into artful character study
Black-and-white Venice Competition title is adapted from Albert Camus story and stars Benjamin Voisin and Rebecca Marder
Reviews‘My Tennis Maestro’ review: Pierfrancesco Favino charms as a faded Italian tennis pro
Andrea Di Stefano’s 1980s-set comedy premieres out of competition in Venice
Reviews‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ review: Jim Jarmusch and starry cast deliver tender family triptych
Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling and Vicky Krieps are among the ensemble of Jarmusch’s Venice competition title
Reviews‘A Year Of School’ review: A Swedish girl finds her way in an Italian all-male high school
Laura Samani’s engaging comedy-drama premieres in Venice Horizons