All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic
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Reviews‘Hellcat’ review: Claustrophobic US horror sees woman trapped in Airstream trailer
Editor-turned-director Brock Bodell’s debut features a compelling performance from Dakota Gorman
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Reviews’Better Go Mad In The Wild’: Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe winner follows Czech twins living off-grid
Miro Remo’s documentary pays tribute to idosyncratic brothers Frantisek and Ondrej Klisik
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Reviews‘Don’t Call Me Mama’ review: Complex Norwegian debut follows an ill-fated small town affair
A wealthy socialite seduces a teenage asylum seeker in elegantly uncomfortable Karlovy Vary competition title
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Reviews‘Bidad’ review: A female singer fights to be heard in potent Tehran-set drama
Iranian filmmaker Soheil Beiraghi’s fourth feature premieres in Karlovy Vary competition
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Reviews‘Broken Voices’ review: Powerful Czech choir drama is loosely based on real-life abuse scandal
Ondrej Provaznik’s 1990s-set feature explores the dark underbelly of an elite all-girls choir
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Reviews‘The Visitor’ review: Lithuanian debut takes a fresh approach to the issue of migration
A Lithuanian ex-pat struggles to return home in Vytautas Katkus’s impressive move to features
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Reviews‘The Luminous Life’ review: A Lisbon spring brings new opportunities for a troubled 20-something
The debut feature from Joao Rosas is a continuation of three previous short films
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Reviews‘Re-creation’ review: Vicky Krieps stars in reimagining of Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder trial
Unwieldy feature presents a fictional Irish trial for the real-life 1996 murder of the French film producer
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Reviews‘Sand City’ review: Two disparate lives are linked by sand in lyrical Bangladeshi feature
Dhaka-set drama is debut feature of short filmmaker Mahde Hasan
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Reviews‘Out Of Love’ review: Camille Cottin stars as a French woman flung into motherhood
Nathan Ambrosioni’s intimate drama premieres in Karlovy Vary
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Reviews‘Dragonfly’ review: Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn headline potent Paul Andrew Williams drama
Williams returns to the big screen with unnerving study of a community in crisis
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Reviews‘All That’s Due’ review: A German family comes undone in Franz Müller’s strained domestic drama
The Munich premiere is a sequel to Müller’s 2009 feature ‘Wallace Line’
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Reviews‘Endless Cookie’ review: Annecy’s Contrechamp winner is an inventive portrait of Canadian half-brothers
Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver’s animated documentary is a “picture infused with love”
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Reviews’ChaO’ review: Anarchic Japanese anime imagines a fantastical near-future Shanghai
Animator Yasuhiro Aoki makes his debut with this energetic tale of human-merpeople relationships
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Reviews‘Arco’ review: Natalie Portman produces appealing French time-travel animation
Ugo Bienvenu’s 2D debut feature sees a boy from the far future crash-land in 2075
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Reviews‘Stitch Head’ review: Burtonesque animation is adapted from Guy Bass children’s books
Asa Butterfield and Rob Brydon lend their voices to Steve Hudson’s charming creature feature
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Reviews‘Animal Farm’ review: Director Andy Serkis softens George Orwell classic for family animation
Seth Rogen and Kieran Culkin lend their voices to this long-gestating project
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Reviews‘Dandelion’s Odyssey’ review: Artistic animation takes a plant’s eye-view of the apocalypse
Momoko Seto’s dialogue-free feature blends computer animation and time-lapse photography
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Reviews‘Young Mothers’ review: Five teenage mothers form the nucleus of the Dardenne brothers’ latest
The writer/directors filmed in a residential shelter for mothers near Liege
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Reviews‘Heads Or Tails?’ review: John C. Reilly is Buffalo Bill in this ‘rambunctious’ spaghetti Western
Rising French star Nadia Tereszkiewicz also stars in this surrealist Un Certain Regard premiere