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‘Writing Hawa’: IDFA Review
IDFA breakout charts one Afghan mother’s quest to educate herself - just as the Taliban rolls into Kabul
‘Wicked’: Review
Lavish, full-throated and lengthy adaptation of half the hit stage musical
‘Spring Came On Laughing’: Cairo Review
Heightened Cairo-set melodrama features five tales of fracturing female relationships
‘An American Pastoral’: IDFA Review
Timely documentary tracks small-town school board elections in Pennsylvania
‘Wishing On A Star’: Tallinn Review
Hybrid documentary follows an Italian astrologer who sends people around the world in search of their dreams
‘Out Of Control’: Tallinn Review
Omar Sy and Elodie Bouchez star in Anne Le Ny’s domestic drama set in Brittany
‘The Shadow Scholars’: IDFA Review
Steve McQueen-produced doc shines a light on Kenya’s academic ghostwriter-for-hire industry
‘The Propagandist’: IDFA Review
Chilling portrait of Dutch filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Jan Teunissen
‘A Want In Her’: IDFA Review
Affecting documentary sees Irish artist Myrid Carten turn her camera on her troubled mother
‘The Shepherd And The Bear’: IDFA Review
Immersive documentary follows the controversial reintroduction of wild bears to the remote French Pyrenees
‘About A Hero’: IDFA Review
IDFA opener is an uneven AI-generated hybrid murder mystery in the style of Werner Herzog
‘The Exalted’: Tallinn Review
Highly-effective satire focuses on an elite Latvian couple whose lifestyle is about to implode
‘Raqqa: Spy Vs Spy’: Seville Review
High-octane Syria-set spy thriller
‘Passing Dreams’: Cairo Review
Cairo opens with a defiantly upbeat Palestinian road movie about a young boy and his missing pigeon
‘Reading Lolita In Tehran’: Tallinn Review
Golshifteh Farahani plays a literary professor trying to stem the tide of repression in revolutionary Iran
‘Dismantling An Elephant’: Seville Review
A mother’s alcoholism casts a shadow over a wealthy Barcelona family
‘A Missing Part’: Seville Review
Romain Duris is a French father working in Tokyo who falls foul of Japanese custody laws
‘The Antique’: Seville Review
Georgia’s Oscar submission was shot in Russia and tracks exiles in St Petersburg
‘Gladiator II’: Review
Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington cross swords in Ridley Scott’s stirring return to ancient Rome
‘Spilt Milk’: Tallinn Review
An 11-year-old wannabe detective has his eyes opened to the harsh realities of 1980s Dublin in this ambitious debut
‘Carnival Is Over’: Tallinn Review
A couple attempt to escape Brazil’s criminal underworld in Fernando Coimbra’s darkly comic drama
‘Alpha.’: Seville Review
Frosty drama sees an estranged father and son battle for dominance in the unforgiving Swiss Alps
‘Cosmos’: Thessaloniki Review
The burgeoning relationship of a sixtysomething couple crosses Mexico’s cultural divide
‘Red Path’: Thessaloniki Review
A Tunisian teenager encounters violent extremism in this drama based on the 2015 killing of Mabrouk Soltani
‘Red One’: Review
Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans must team up to save Christmas in Amazon’s by-the-numbers festive adventure
‘Meat’: Thessaloniki Review
This turbulent rural family drama has its roots in Greek tragedy
‘She Loved Blossoms More’: Thessaloniki Review
A trio of brothers attempt to resurrect their dead mother in this stylish slice of Greek Weird Wave horror
‘Went Up The Hill’: Thessaloniki Review
Vicky Krieps and Dacre Montgomery are haunted by the past in this atmospheric New Zealand ghost story
‘Hunt’: Thessaloniki Review
Melancholy Greek character study of a man being pushed to the limit
’Lust In The Rain’: Tokyo Review
Ambitious, uneven erotic love triangle drama set in 1940s Japan
‘Paddington In Peru’: Review
The marmalade-loving bear goes back to his Peruvian roots in this fun, if more formulaic, adventure sequel
‘La Jetée, The Fifth Shot’: DOK Leipzig Review
Meandering doc explores a personal connection to Chris Marker’s 1962 short La Jetée
‘The Unseen Sister’: Tokyo Review
Midi Zi’s first China-shot feature is a thriller starring Zhao Yiling
‘Under The Volcano’: Thessaloniki Review
Poland’s Oscar entry is a drama about a Ukrainian family stranded in Spain on the outbreak of war
‘Teki Cometh’: Tokyo Review
A retired university professor faces an unseen enemy in this frighteningly-effective drama from Japan
’Barbara Morgenstern: Doing It For Love’: DOK Leipzig Review
Niche documentary follows German electro-pop musician Barbara Morgenstern as she creates her new album
‘The Last Dance’: Tokyo Review
Dayo Wong and Michael Hui are the odd couple at the heart of this Hong Kong drama set in a Taoist funeral home
‘My Friend An Delie’: Tokyo Review
Chinese actor Dong Zijian makes his directorial debut with this significant drama
‘Daughter’s Daughter’: Tokyo Review
Huang Xi’s drama stars Sylvia Chang in an elegant story of motherhood and loss
‘Israel Palestine On Swedish TV 1958-1989’: Tokyo Review
Göran Hugo Olsson digs into the archives for this sobering look at the Middle East conflict
‘Tracing Light’: DOK Leipzig Review
DOK Leipzig opener takes a deep dive into the concept of light through both science and art
‘11 Rebels’: Tokyo Review
Tokyo opens with a blisteringly old-fashioned Samurai slice-’em-up
‘Juror #2’: Review
Modest, comfy crime from Clint Eastwood puts Nicholas Hoult in the dock
‘Flowers Of Ukraine’: DOK Leipzig Review
A Kyiv woman fights to maintain her city garden under the shadow of war in this life-affirming documentary
‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’: Review
A welcome return for Wallace, Gromit and that dastardly penguin in another ‘instant classic’ from Aardman Animation
‘Here’: Review
Tom Hanks and Robin Wright headline Robert Zemeckis’s ambitious study of lives across time
‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’: Review
A kooky contemporary French riff on the famed 18th century British novelist
‘Salve Maria’: Valladolid Review
A new mother’s thoughts turn murderous in Mar Coll’s gripping psychodrama
‘Venom: The Last Dance’: Review
Tom Hardy takes his inner demon out for one final spin in this fun if familiar sequel
‘Rita’: Valladolid Review
Paz Vega takes a child’s eye view of domestic violence in her 1980s Seville-set directorial debut
