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‘Bright Future’ review: Romanian documentary revisits 1989 Pyongyang Festival of Youth and Students
Andra MacMasters’ archival essay named best debut feature in Transilvania’s Romanian Days
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‘Olivia And The Invisible Earthquake’ review: Empathetic Spanish stop-motion captures life on the poverty line
Irene Iborra Rizo’s accomplished Barcelona-set debut premieres in Annecy competition
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‘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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‘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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‘13 Days 13 Nights’ review: Roschdy Zem stars in real-life Kabul extraction thriller
Dramatisation of removal of French citizens from Afghanistan in August 2021
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‘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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‘Colours Of Time’ review: Cédric Klapisch delivers a crowdpleasing comedy of France past and present
Suzanne Lindon headlines a film which is ‘entertaining and classy, if shamelessly contrived’
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‘Caravan’ review: A mother and her disabled son take to the road in Italy
Czech debut from Zuzana Kirchnerova is born from her own personal experience and her Cinefondation-winning short
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‘Yes’ review: Nadav Lapid’s post-October 7 satire is loudly divisive
Ariel Bronz stars as a musician tasked with composing a new Israeli national anthem
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‘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
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‘Nino’ review: A cancer diagnosis prompts a weekend of reckoning in tender French drama
Theodore Pellin won the Critics’ Week Rising Star Award for his ‘soulful’ performance in Pauline Loques’ debut feature
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‘Sentimental Value’ review: Renate Reinsve and Joachim Trier reunite for moving family drama
Trier’s third picture to screen in Cannes Competition co-stars Stellan Skarsgard
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‘Romeria’ review: Carla Simon’s third, semi-autobiographical feature is ‘pensive and rather lovely’
The Spanish director continues to mine her own history for this affecting tale of a filmmaker in the making
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‘The Girls We Want’ review: Inner-city kids fumble in Marseille-set debut
The return of a prodigal daughter upsets the balance in Prïncia Car’s collaborative Directors Fortnight title
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‘Tell Her I Love Her’ review: Romane Bohringer confronts her own past in convoluted hybrid feature
Over-stuffed docu-fiction hybrid is the result of a close collaboration with French politician Clémentine Autain
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‘Kika’ review: A grieving woman turns to sex work in Belgian Critics’ Week debut
Alexe Poukine’s tonally-ambitious feature-length debut is balanced by a sensitive performance from Manon Clavel
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‘The Disappearance Of Josef Mengele’ review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s drama tracks post-War life of the SS ‘Angel of Death’
’Fascinating, if not entirely successful’ adaptation sees August Diehl play the Nazi responsible for horrific human experiments at Auschwitz
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‘Militantropos’ review: The invasion of Ukraine through the prism of everyday life
Observational documentary starts in 2022, taking a Wiseman-like approach to a country at war
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‘Fuori’ review: Mario Martone, Valeria Golino zoom in on ‘Art Of Joy’ author Goliarda Sapienza
Mario Martone’s Competition entry focuses on the author’s brief imprisonment and subsequent self-discovery
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‘A Private Life’ review: Rebecca Zlotowski directs Jodie Foster in her first French-speaking lead
Foster is a Parisian therapist embroiled in a murder mystery in this intriguing, uneven thriller