All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic
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Reviews‘Boatbuilders’ review: Luke Lorentzen’s Maine-set boatyard documentary is a finely crafted delight
The ‘Midnight Family’ director slows the pace for this beautifully observed portrait of craftsmanship and community
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Reviews‘Eklipse’ review: Tender 1999-set debut explores an Austrian childhood in the shadow of AIDS
Secrecy and stigma threaten a childhood friendship in Manuel Wetscher’s Venice Horizons premiere
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Reviews‘Furies’ review: George Clooney exec-produces this propulsive female-led Beirut bank-heist caper
Two sisters take on Lebanon’s broken economy in Rami Kodeih’s messy but hugely enjoyable Venice Spotlight title
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Reviews‘Falling House’ review: Unsubtle Iranian family drama turns a condemned home into a symbol of patriarchal control
A Tehran family is pushed to breaking point in Mohsen Gharaei’s Venice Horizons premiere
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Reviews‘Someone’s Daughter’ review: A knotty survival tale set against the hostile Canadian wilderness
Pascale Bussieres’s tightly controlled performance highlights this Fantasia premiere from director Wiebke Von Carolsfeld
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Reviews‘Corpus’ review: Hedonistic horror debut plays out against the sweaty club scene of late ’90s New York
The feature debut of former intimacy coordinator Corrin Evans makes its debut in Fantasia competition
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Reviews‘Hijamat’ review: Jafar Panahi produces Nader Saeivar’s disjointed study of a Turkish immigrant family in Berlin
The fourth feature from Panahi collaborator and It Was Just An Accident co-writer Saeivar premieres in Karlovy Vary competition
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Reviews‘Black Money For White Nights’ review: Absurdist drama reckons with Bulgaria’s culture of corruption
Directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov return to Karlovy Vary following their Crystal Globe-winning The Father
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Reviews‘The Lion At My Back’ review: Cypriot migrant drama is anchored by persuasive performances
Tonia Mishiali’s second feature makes its debut in Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe competition
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Reviews‘The Guest’ review: Trine Dyrholm is magnetic at the heart of knotty Danish domestic drama
Mads Mengel’s feature debut premieres in Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe competition
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Reviews‘The Violinist’ review: Annecy Cristal winner is sedate, traditional Singapore-set animation
Source: Annecy ‘The Violinist’ Dir. Ervin Han, Raúl García. Singapore/Spain/Italy. 2026. 114mins When an enterprising Spanish journalist tracks down a veteran virtuoso violinist and asks to hear the story of her cherished instrument, the result is an epic, multi-decade-spanning tale of love and loss, musical creation and ...
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Reviews‘Blaise’ review: Droll French animation follows an introverted teen and his dysfunctional parents
Dimitri Planchon and Jean-Paul Guigue’s follow-up to their popular TV series premieres in Annecy
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Reviews‘Julián’ review: Latest animation from Ireland’s Carton Saloon is vibrant Brooklyn-set coming-of-age drama
Louise Bagnall’s feature debut makes its bow at Annecy
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Reviews‘Rogue Trooper’ review: Duncan Jones adapts 2000 AD comic strip into eccentric, entertaining animated actioner
Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden and Hayley Atwell lend their voices to Jones’s Annecy premiere
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Reviews‘Lucy Lost’ review: Charming, playful animated adaptation of Michael Morpurgo novel ‘Listen To The Moon’
Olivier Clért’s feature debut plays Annecy competition following its Cannes premiere
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Reviews‘Iron Boy’ review: French animator Louis Clichy’s first feature is striking, personal study of a challenging childhood
Clichy’s debut bowed in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard before moving on to Annecy competition
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Reviews‘In Waves’ review: French debut animation is handsome, empathetic study of love and grief
French-Vietnamese director Phuong Mai Nguyen’s first feature plays Annecy competition after opening Cannes Critics’ Week
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Reviews‘Crescendo’ review: A French opera is rocked by scandal in Agnès Jaoui’s tone-deaf #MeToo satire
Daniel Auteuil, Vincenzo Amato and Claire Chust star alongside Jaoui in blunt Cannes Out Of Competition premiere
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Reviews‘A Man Of His Time’ review: A superb Swann Arlaud powers Emmanuel Marre’s ambitious, overlong Vichy France drama
The Cannes Competition title follows real-life opportunist Henri Marre as he seeks to make a mark in 1940s France
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Reviews‘Death Has No Master’ review: Asia Argento finds herself adrift in heady, uneven Venezuelan drama
Jorge Thielen Armand’s hallucinatory thriller premieres in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight