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★★★★☆ Set against the hum and heat of the Deep South, The Rivals of Amziah King follows Matthew McConaughey’s Amziah as he drifts back into the life of Kateri, his former foster daughter, played by Angelina LookingGlass. What follows is a loose, unruly blend of music, crime, and community, a…

★★★★½ An epic family saga told in muted tones and under one’s breath. That is how one can describe The Mountain Bride (Vermiglio), the sophomore film of writer-director Maura Delpero. It is a film that prostrates before the first principles of human existence – life, death, and marriage. No family on our…

★★★★☆ At the heart of the botanical garden in the medieval university town of Marburg stands a Ginkgo biloba tree, ancient and patient, watching a century of lives pass beneath its branches. Across three stories set in 1908, 1972 and 2020, Silent Friend follows those who cross paths with it, their lives…

★★★★☆ Premiering at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival, Sorda (Deaf) won the Panorama Audience Award and has been widely praised for its authenticity and striking use of sound. Ángela, a deaf woman, is expecting a child with her hearing partner, Héctor. The baby’s arrival unsettles the fragile equilibrium of their lives, forcing…

Pillion is the Dom Rom Com of the year, and it’s got everyone talking. It just scooped three awards at the British Independent Screen Awards, including Best British Film and Best Screenplay, and it won the Un Certain Regard Best Screenplay Award at Cannes. Written and directed by Harry Lighton…

A father searches for his missing daughter at a rave in southern Morocco, accompanied by his young son. The country is in a state of emergency. The military arrives to evacuate the LSD-soaked ravers from their beat-driven utopia. Father and son escape the militia and follow a band of raver…

It may have been my post-cinema high, but DREAMS (Sex Love) has earned a spot as one of my favourite films. Poetic in all the right moments, but never showy or self-important, the film doesn’t try to be something it’s not. Instead, it tells a deeply relatable and vulnerable story…

In DJ Ahmet, writer-director Georgi M. Unkovski delivers a gentle, observant coming-of-age story set far from dance floors and spotlights. Rooted in rural Macedonia, the film is less concerned with musical transformation than with the quiet rhythms of adolescence, responsibility, and the tentative pull of freedom in a tightly bound…

What does it mean to be ‘honoured’ by a state that wants you out of sight? The Brazilian film The Blue Trail asks a question that feels alarmingly urgent in our era of performative politics and social neglect. Tereza is 77 years old and lives in a small industrial town…

Kelly Reichardt, the director of The Mastermind, is best known for her minimalist, character-driven films that explore everyday struggles. Interesting then, that she chose to make a heist movie in The Mastermind. The heist trope usually contains slick characters, sharp clothes, a glamorous crew of experts, witty dialogue, intricate and…