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‘Tutu’ review: Sam Pollard’s latest documentary is galvanizing study of South African leader Desmond Tutu
Pollard’s incisive work follows ’MLK/FBI’ and ’Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me’
‘Dust’ review: Anke Blonde’s claustrophobic late-90s Belgian drama lacks high-stakes tension
The film stars Jan Hammenecker and Arieh Worthalter as successful software developers on the brink of disaster
‘Rose’ review: Sandra Hüller is phenomenal in arresting character study set in 17th-century Germany
Markus Schleinzer’s black-and-white Berlin Competition title also stars impressive newcomer Caro Braun
‘The Education Of Jane Cumming’ review: Real-life 19th-century scandal inspires elegant, toothless period drama
Sophie Heldman’s second feature is set in an all-girls Scottish boarding school
‘Chronicles From The Seige’ review: Arabic-language debut feature is intense tapestry of life, death and courage
Palestinian-Syrian director Abdallah Alkhabtib’s Berlin Perspectives title is fuelled by its performances
‘Salvation’ review: Emin Alper weaves timely tale of prophecy, paranoia and blood feuds in rural Turkey
The director’s second Berlin competition title follows two warring clans in the Turkish mountains
‘Wax & Gold’ review: Ruth Beckermann explores Addis Ababa’s Hilton Hotel as a microcosm for modern Ethiopia
The Austrian filmmaker’s follow-up to ‘Favoriten’ premieres as a Berlin Special Screening
‘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
‘Nightborn’ review: Hanna Bergholm follows ‘Hatching’ with audacious motherhood horror
Seidi Haarla and Rupert Grint star in the director’s English-language Berlin competition title
‘Light Pillar’ review: Xu Zao’s distinctive animated debut finds poetry in digital escape
Berlin Perspectives title is set around a decaying film production facility and utilises immersive hand-drawn visuals
‘Safe Exit’ review: Mohammed Hammad follows ‘Withered Green’ with spare Egyptian drama
Marwan Waleed anchors a restrained portrait of alienation in Hammad’s second feature
‘Animol’ review: Ashley Walters’ directorial debut burns with raw, claustrophobic intensity
Tut Nyout leads a gritty youth-detention drama with support from Stephen Graham
‘Rosebush Pruning’ review: Callum Turner, Elle Fanning and Riley Keogh head stylish, soulless Karim Aïnouz drama
The English-language Berlin Competition title also stars Jamie Bell, Lukas Gage, Tracy Letts and Pamela Anderson
‘Heysel 85’ review: Technically astute, narratively laboured dramatisation of 1985 European Cup Final stadium tragedy
Teodora Ana Mihai’s third fiction feature premieres as a Berlin Special Gala
‘Allegro Pastell’ review: German drama is precise, emotionless study of millennial malaise
Anna Roller adapts Leif Randt’s book about a shaky long-distance Berlin-Frankfurt romance
‘Dao’ review: Alain Gomis returns with sprawling meditation on migration, ritual and memory
The director follows ’Félicité’ with an expansive docu-drama spanning France and Guinea-Bissau
‘A Prayer For The Dying’ review: Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly fight for survival in American West
Berlin Perspectives title is a striking, if tonally uneven debut from Dara Van Dusen
‘Yellow Letters’ review: Ilker Catak follows ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ with powerful Turkish drama
Ozgu Namal and Tansu Bicer star in Catack’s meticulously-calibrated Berlin competition title
‘Sunny Dancer’ review: Bella Ramsey heads confident and upbeat UK teen drama
George Jaques’ second feature also includes Ruby Stokes, Daniel Quinn-Toye and Neil Patrick Harris
‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans’ review: Anders Danielsen Lie is phenomenal as the iconic American jazz musician
British documentarian Grant Gee’s absorbing fiction feature debut bows in Berlin competition
‘Mouse’ review: Rich, bittersweet US coming-of-age drama from ‘Saint Frances’ filmmakers
The latest work from Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson bows in Berlin Panorama
‘Trial Of Hein’ review: Assured, enigmatic German debut blends rural unease and social allegory
Kai Stänicke’s impressive blend of period drama and folk horror bows in Berlin’s Perspectives strand
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‘In A Whisper’ review: Hiam Abbass is magnetic in sensitive Tunisian LGBTQ drama
Lelya Bouzid’s nuanced Berlin competition title is set over six days of mourning
‘The Red Hangar’ review: Tightly-controlled 1970s Chilean thriller proves powerfully timely
Juan Pablo Sallato’s impressive feature debut takes place at the beginning of the Pinochet regime
‘Only Rebels Win’ review: Hiam Abbass anchors this uneven but impassioned Beirut melodrama
Danielle Arbid’s latest feature confronts social prejudice and displacement in contemporary Lebanon
‘No Good Men’ review: Berlin opener is breezy if somewhat conventional Afghan rom-com
Writer/director Shahrbanoo Sadat also stars in this Kabul-set romance
‘Who Killed Alex Odeh?’ review: Fascinating doc re-examines 1985 assassination of Palestinian-American activist
Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans’ film plays as a Berlin Special Screening after its Sundance premiere
‘Crime 101’ review: Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo face off in slow-burn LA crime caper
Halle Berry and Barry Keoghan also star in Burt Layton’s adaptation of Don Wislow’s 2020 novella
‘La Belle Année’ review: Delicate documentary follows a Swedish-French woman revisiting her past
Filmmaker Angelica Ruffier’s personal debut won Rotterdam’s Special Jury Prize
‘Wuthering Heights’ review: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi sizzle in lavish, melodramatic adaptation
‘Saltburn’ director Emerald Fennell leans into the feverish emotions of Emily Brontë’s original novel
‘Master’ review: An idealistic politician is corrupted in assured, slow-burn Bangladeshi drama
Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s second feature was named Rotterdam’s Big Screen competition winner
‘Variations On A Theme’ review: Rotterdam Tiger winner is intimate South African doc-fiction
Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar follow ’Carissa’ with community drama set in the country’s Kamiesberge region
‘Moonglow’ review: Isabel Sandoval directs and stars in underpowered Filipino neo-noir
Police corruption procedural bows in Rotterdam’s Big Screen Competition
‘Supporting Role’ review: Georgian star Dato Bakhtadze anchors fluid, tragi-comic Tbilisi-set drama
Ana Urushadze’s follow-up to ’Scary Mother’ debuts in Rotterdam’s Tiger competition
‘Silenced’ review: Damning Australian doc explores the legal backlash to the #MeToo movement
Filmmaker Selina Miles focuses on several high-profile women who have faced defamation cases, including Amber Heard
‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ review: Sam Rockwell rages against the machines in glib, gonzo AI satire
Director Gore Verbinski’s nihilistic return to the big screen also stars Juno Temple and Haley Lu Richards
‘To Hold A Mountain’ review: Tender, immersive doc follows mountain life in Montenegro
Sundance World Cinema Documentary Grand Prize winner proves both intimate and universal
‘Projecto Global’ review: Dynamic Portuguese drama stars an impressive Jani Zhao as real-life 1980s rebel
Ivo M Ferriera’s knowing, nostalgic feature bows in Rotterdam’s Big Screen Competition
‘Nuisance Bear’ review: Sundance US Documentary winner is thoughtful, impactful study of Canada’s polar bears
Directors Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden expand their 2021 short to impressive results
‘Butterfly’ review: Renate Reinsve crackles in intriguing but tonally frustrating Gran-Canaria set drama
The Rotterdam Big Screen competition title reunites Reinsve with her ‘The Worst Person In The World’ co-star Helen Bjornesby
‘Providence And The Guitar’ review: Rotterdam opener is quirky, stretched Portuguese comedy
Joao Nicolau’s fourth feature is based on a work by Robert Louis Stevenson
‘Shelter’ review: Jason Statham is a killer with a conscience in muscular UK-set actioner
Bill Nighy, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays and Bodhi Rae Breathnach also star for director Ric Roman Waugh
‘Run Amok’ review: A student plans a musical about a school shooting in audacious, uneven US debut
Newcomer Alyssa Marvin joins Patrick Wilson and Margaret Cho in NB Mager’s expansion of her 2023 short
‘The Only Living Pickpocket In New York’ review: John Turturro impresses in stylish crime drama
Actor/director Noah Segan’s second feature also stars Steve Buscemi and Giancarlo Esposito
‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist’ review: ‘Navalny’ helmer Daniel Roher co-directs toothless AI study
Roher and co-director Charlie Tyrell attempt to personalise this hot-button topic, to disappointing results
