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‘Black Church Bay’ review: Tom Cullen and Joe Locke impress in intense Welsh LGBTQ+ thriller
Rhys Marc Jones’s feature debut premieres in Zurich competition before playing Busan and London
‘The Ideas’ review: Six witty vignettes power director/star Fabian Stumm’s slice-of-life German anthology
Angela Winkler and Maren Eggert join an ensemble cast for Stumm’s follow-up to ‘Sad Jokes’
‘Call Me Queen’ review: Eliane Umuhire is magnetic in Emily Atef’s well-intentioned drama based on real-life Kenyan AIDS activists
The 1990s-set feature plays Hamburg before releasing in Germany in October
‘The Other Side’ review: Nina Hoss gives a committed performance in pacy German survival thriller
Mariko Minoguchi’s follow-up to ‘Relativity’ is set in a dystopian post-pandemic world
‘Children Of The Sun’ review: Four German youngsters attempt to create a sexual utopia in poetic, puzzling Greece-set drama
Writer/director Leonie Krippendorff reunites with her ‘Cocoon’ strars Lena Urzendowsky and Jella Haase
‘Adult Supervision’ review: A chaotic school trip is the setting for a study of flawed masculinity in astute Swedish debut
Alex Schulman’s feature has been selected as Sweden’s official Oscar submission
‘Milo’ review: Marion Cotillard and Théodore Pellerin head moody, dramatically inert French thriller
The latest from veteran French filmmaker Nicole Garcia premieres in San Sebastian
‘Saints’ review: Rising star Victoria Luengo brings spiky energy to uneven Spanish heist thriller
The second feature from Basque filmmaker Mikel Gurrea premieres in San Sebastian
‘What Remains’ review: A couple head in different directions in meditative, visually striking Turkish road movie
Yesim Ustaoglu’s distinctive feature premieres in San Sebastian, and will be released in Turkey by Mubi
‘Growth Of The Soil’ review: Herbert Nordrum and Asta Kamma August are exceptional in visceral Norwegian period drama
Hans Petter Moland’s deliberate, meticulous film has been selected as Norway’s official Oscar submission
‘Ghost Song’ review: Fatih Akin’s San Sebastián opener is emotionally satisfying supernatural romance
A strong perormance from newcomer Mariam Dawoud anchors Akin’s tender Hamburg-set love story
’Brace Your Heart’ review: Quietly powerful exploration of trauma and community in a remote Swedish mountain village
Amanda Kernell follows Charter and Sámi Blood with nuanced tale of a female Sámi reindeer herder struggling to make her mark
‘Wild, Wild East’ review: Second World War thriller set in occupied Poland starts strong but can’t sustain its intrigue
Jan Holubek’s Venice Platform premiere is part Western, part noir.
‘Ground Floor’ review: Absurdist Hungarian comedy effectively turns a run-down apartment block into state of the nation satire
Ádám Tompa stars in director Gábor Reisz’s follow-up to 2023 Venice Horizons winner Explanation For Everything
‘Until The Day Ends’ review: Vivid if limited portrait of revolutionary youth in modern-day Serbia
Jelena Maksimović’s fiction debut relies heavily on the charisma of lead Jelena Maksimović
‘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
‘A Good Little Soldier’ review: A magnetic Alba Rohrwacher anchors Stéphane Brizé’s study of toxic workplace culture
Vincent Lindon also stars in timely, darkly comic Venice competition title
‘Dau’ review: Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s sprawling new installment in his conceptual project is an affecting study of Soviet tyranny
The Venice competition title follows previous features and a 2019 art installation
‘I Matter’ review: Romanian children’s home drama is sometimes conventional, always authentic
Roma actress and filmmaker Alina Serban’s heartfelt feature bows in Venice Spotlight
‘Bunker’ review: Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz navigate a marriage under siege in Florian Zeller’s elegant drama
Stephen Graham also stars in Zeller’s London-set Venice competition title






































