Jonathan Romney
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‘Limonov: The Ballad’: Cannes Review
Ben Whishaw commits to the part of the eternally dissident Soviet writer Eduard Limonov in Kirill Serebrennikov’s Competition entry
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‘Dog On Trial’: Cannes Review
Laetitia Dosch directs and stars in this Swiss legal comedy with more bark than bite
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‘Rumours’: Cannes Review
Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander in this G7 summit-set pulp horror co-directed by Guy Maddin
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‘Armand’: Cannes Review
A schoolboy’s accusation is the catalyst for this Norway-set Un Certain Regard standout starring Renate Reinsve
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‘Julie Keeps Quiet’: Cannes Review
A focused tennis player stays silent to protect her coach in this controlled Belgian debut
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‘Oh, Canada’: Cannes Review
Richard Gere plays a director making sense of his own history in Paul Schrader’s Competition entry
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‘The Invasion’: Cannes Review
Sergei Loznitsa presents a vivid document of the effects of the Russian invasion on Ukraine
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‘My Father’s Diaries’: Visions du Reel Review
Filmmaker Ado Hasanovic revisits the Balkan War through his father’s archival video and diary footage
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‘Mother Vera’: Visions du Reel Review
A Belorusian convent is the setting for this unique UK-produced story of spiritual self-realisation
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‘Back To Black’: Review
Pallid Amy Winehouse biopic is an impressive platform for its star, Marisa Abela
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‘Shambhala’: Berlin Review
Seductive Himalayan odyssey follows a pregnant Neplaese woman as she tries to find her husband in Llasa
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‘Black Tea’: Berlin Review
An African woman seeks a new life, and new connections, in Guangzhou, China
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‘A Traveler’s Needs’: Berlin Review
Isabelle Huppert is an enigmatic Frenchwoman in Korea in her latest collaboration with Hong Sangsoo
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‘Langue Etrangere’: Berlin Review
Two penpals from France and Germany navigate an in-person relationship in Claire Berger’s coming-of-age drama
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‘The Empire’: Berlin Review
Northern France plays host to an epic battle of good and evil in Bruno Damont’s outre sci-fi
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‘Suspended Time’: Berlin Review
Olivier Assayas’s nostalgic, introspective lockdown drama is loosely based on the director’s own life
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‘No Other Land’: Berlin Review
A Palestinian-Israeli collective documents how a beleaguered West Bank community is resisting the Israeli army
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‘Last Swim’: Berlin Review
Freewheeling London-set debut is a confident opener to Berlin’s Generations sidebar
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‘At Averroes & Rosa Parks’: Berlin Review
Nicolas Philibert profiles two Parisian psychiatric units in the second of a planned trilogy following ’On The Adamant’
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‘Small Things Like These’: Berlin Review
Cillian Murphy is a quiet man with a conscience in 1980s Ireland in this adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella