Wendy Ide, Senior international critic
Reviews‘Magic Atlas’ review: Chinese-language animation deploys multiple techniques to striking, confounding effect
Sun Xun’s experimental feature plays DOK Leipzig and Tokyo after a Locarno premiere
Reviews‘Wildwood’ review: Animation studio Laika break new ground with dazzling stop-motion adventure
The latest work from the ‘Coraline’ and ‘Kubo’ studio features the voices of Jacob Tremblay, Carey Mulligan and Peyton Elizabeth Lee
Reviews‘Ray Gunn’ review: Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson head starry voice cast for Brad Bird’s stylish but unwieldy animation
The Skydance Animation feature premieres in London before a limited theatrical release and Netflix bow in December
Reviews‘Beach Fictions’ review: A woman’s experiences reshape her day in elegant South Korean time-shift debut
Lim Hayeon’s absorbing first feature bows in Busan competition
Reviews‘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
Reviews‘Faith’ review: Erin Doherty and James McAvoy drive delicate, genre-fluid exploration of grief and the unknown
Paul Andrew Williams’ wrenching follow-up to Dragonfly bows as a Toronto Special Presentation
Reviews‘A Bit Of Light’ review: Ali Asgari’s profoundly affecting drama finds hope amid despair in contemporary Tehran
The Iranian filmmaker makes his Venice Competition debut with the story of a doctor pushed to breaking point
Reviews‘Big Little Things’ review: A gay Chinese woman invents a boyfriend to appease her family in candid, personal debut
Writer/director Michelle Zhou takes inspiration from her own life for Venice Horizons drama
Reviews‘Place To Be’ review: Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi star in odd-couple comedy which never quite takes flight
Kornél Mundruczó follows up Berlin title ‘At The Sea’ with Venice out of competition premiere
Reviews‘The Color Of The Sun’ review: Sensual Okinawa-set coming-of-age tale makes for a striking, enigmatic debut
Venice Horizons title is visually assured exploration of adolescence against the tensions of contemporary Okinawa
Reviews‘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
Reviews‘A Common Story’ review: Alba Rohrwacher is extraordinary in distinctive, daring Italian empty nest drama
Anna Foglietta’s accomplished debut premieres in Venice Horizons
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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