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‘The Summer Book’: London Review
Glenn Close and the Finnish landscape take centre stage in this adaptation of Tove Jansson’s novel
‘Endurance’: London Review
Doc uses digital technology to bring Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic expedition back to colourful life
‘The Wolves Always Come At Night’: London Review
Immersive docu-fiction from the director of ‘Island Of The Hungry Ghosts’ charts climate change in Mongolia
‘Daddy’s Head’: Review
Benjamin Barfoot follows ‘Double Date’ with this UK-set creature feature for Shudder
‘Spirit World’: Busan Review
Eric Khoo’s whimsical tale of the afterlife stars Catherine Deneuve as a chain-smoking chanteuse and is set in Tokyo
‘Blitz’: London Review
Steve McQueen’s weighty wartime drama starring Saoirse Ronan opens the London Film Festival
‘Yen And Ai-Lee’: Busan Review
Kimi Hsia Yu-chiao and Yang Kuei-mei impress in this striking black-and-white Taiwanese mother-daughter drama
‘Crocodile Tears’: London Review
Atmospheric debut is set in a West Java crocodile farm
‘Piece By Piece’: Review
Pharrell Williams proves why he is a real block star as his life gets the Lego treatment
‘For Rana’: Busan Review
A circus motorcyclist in Iran is desperate to find a new heart for his ailing daughter
‘Montages Of A Modern Motherhood’: Busan Review
A first-time mother comes under increasing pressure in this astute Hong Kong drama
‘Waterdrop’: Busan Review
A bereaved teenager goes to extreme lengths to find a new family in this uneven Korean debut
‘The Land Of Morning Calm’: Busan Review
The disappearance of a local fisherman sends ripples through his South Korean coastal community
‘Mr K’: Busan Review
Crispin Glover finds himself trapped in the hotel from hell in this Kafka-esque surrealist comedy
‘Abel’: Busan Review
The life of a Kazakh farmer unravels after the collapse of the Soviet Union
‘The Height Of The Coconut Trees’: Busan Review
Cinematographer Du Jie makes his directorial debut with this enigmatic Japanese ghost story
‘As The River Goes By’: Busan Review
Debut from China tracks the ripples of the past into present-day life in a small town
‘Motherland’: Busan Review
Brillante Ma Mendoza’s police thriller is inspired by a 2015 bloodbath in Mindanao
‘To Kill A Mongolian Horse’: Busan Review
An Inner Mongolian herdsmen fights to keep hold of his heritage in this dramatisation of his life
‘Regretfully At Dawn’: Busan Review
An elderly Thai ex-soldier helps his granddaughter towards a brighter future in Sivaroj Kongsakul’s contemplative drama
‘Village Rockstars 2’: Busan Review
Rima Das returns to rural Assam to follow-up her 2017 docu-drama
‘Tale Of The Land’: Busan Review
The ongoing battle for Indigenous lands in Borneo informs this slow-burn debut
‘MA - Cry Of Silence’: Busan Review
A young textile worker in Myanmar struggles to find her voice against a backdrop of political unrest
‘Serpent’s Path’: Busan Review
Kiyoshi Kurosawa updates his 1998 crime thriller and moves the action from Tokyo to France
‘Kaneko’s Commissary’: Busan Review
Super Eight’s Ryuhei Maruyama stars in this ‘plodding’ prison drama from Japan
‘Travesty’: Busan Review
A city cop finds himself cast adrift in this pointedly political Mongolian hostage thriller
‘Pooja, Sir’: Hamburg Review
A police officer struggles to solve a kidapping case within Nepal’s disenfranchised Madhesi community
‘Uprising’: Busan Review
Busan opens with a sweeping Netflix period actioner co-written by Park Chan-wook
‘Edge Of Night’: Hamburg Review
A confident debut from Cologne-born director Türker Süer marks the director out as a talent to watch
‘Of Dogs And Men’: Hamburg Review
Dani Rosenberg’s docufiction captures the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel
‘Nickel Boys’: Review
RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead’s novel of southern racism and abuse in a boys penitentiary
’Marco’: San Sebastián Review
Eduard Fernandez grounds this Incredible true-life story of a fake Holocaust survivor that closes San Sebastian
‘The Last Breath’: San Sebastian Review
Costa-Gravas deals with death in this wordy philosophical drama
‘The Wailing’: San Sebastian Review
A mysterious entity stalks three young women in this effective Spanish-language horror debut
‘The Man Who Loved UFOs’: San Sebastian Review
Diego Lerman’s based-on-real-life dramedy stars Leonardo Sbaraglia as a TV reporter gone rogue
‘Modi - Three Days On The Wings Of Madness’: San Sebastian Review
Johnny Depp directs a chaotic romp through three days in the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani
‘Bound In Heaven’: San Sebastian Review
Veteran screenwriter Huo Xin makes her directorial debut with a genre-infused drama about domestic abuse
‘Afternoons Of Solitude’: San Sebastian Review
Albert Serra’s immersive, unflinching documentary follows Peruvian bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey
‘On Falling’: San Sebastian Review
A Portugese factory worker in Scotland struggles to make a connection in this effective debut
‘When Fall Is Coming’: San Sebastián Review
Francois Ozon is in fine fettle for this later-life puzzle piece starring Helene Vincent
‘Hard Truths’: San Sebastián Review
Mike Leigh bites back with this trenchant piece starring a superb Marianne-Jean Baptiste
‘Emmanuelle’: San Sebastian Review
Audrey Diwan presents a ‘paralysingly pointless’ update of the 70s soft-porn figure
‘They Will Be Dust’: Toronto Review
Toronto Platform winner is a dance about death and a suicide pact between a theatrical couple
‘Speak No Evil’: Review
A full-throttle performance from James McAvoy drives Blumhouse’s remake of the 2022 Danish horror
‘The Fire Inside’: Toronto Review
Barry Jenkins scripts cinematographer-turned-director Rachel Morrison’s dynamic portrait of Black female boxer Claressa Shields
’How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies’: Review
A young man forges a fresh relationship with his ailing grandmother in this Thai box office sensation
‘The Wild Robot’: Toronto Review
Lupita Nyong’o and Pedro Pascal lend their voices to this gorgeous animation about a robot finding her place in the world
‘Blue Road’: Toronto Review
Sinead O’Shea’s spirited documentary is a fitting tribute to Irish author Edna O’Brien
‘Harbin’: Toronto Review
Hyun Bin is a soldier embarking on a suicidal mission in early 20th century Korea in Woon Min-ho’s stylish period actioner
‘The Return’: Toronto Review
Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite for this restrained retelling of Homer’s Odyssey
