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Recent highlights from film festivals around the world
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3 Faces
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Se rokh

 Jafar Panahi
Iran  ·  2018

Defying a ban on filmmaking, Jafar Panahi takes to the road with actress Behnaz Jafari for a funny and incisive film which questions traditional values.

​​​“Artful, surprising… thrillingly intelligent” – LA Times
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​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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Godland
Vanskabte land

Hlynur Pálmason
Denmark/Iceland/France/Sweden  ·  2022 

Pálmason’s stunning historical epic charts course for the forbidding landscapes of remote southeastern Iceland, recalling the grandeur and madness of Herzog at his best.

​​“An Arctic There Will Be Blood” – Variety
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 Screening times, review and trailer >>

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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
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Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant

Ariane Louis-Seize
Canada ·  ​2023

A sensitive vampire meets a depressed teenage boy in this deadpan French-Canadian romantic comedy.

​“Decidedly cool, impossibly hip” – Screen Zealots
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​Screening times, review and trailer >>

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La Chimera

Alice Rohrwacher
Italy/France/Switzerland/Germany  ·  2023

This fantastical comedy stars Josh O’Connor as a lovelorn Englishman who teams with an eccentric gang of grave-robbers to plunder ancient Etruscan artefacts.

​“A joyous, masterful work of magic” – ​Sight and Sound

​​Screening times, review and trailer >>

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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon

Ana Lily Amirpour
USA ·  2021

A young woman with dangerous powers escapes a mental asylum and lets loose on the seedy neon-lit streets of New Orleans. 

​“A demon-out-of-water fairy-tale thriller” – ​Variety

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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Universal Language
Une langue universelle

Matthew Rankin
​Canada  ·  ​2024

An absurdist homage to the humanist Iranian films of Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi, relocated to an alternative universe somewhere between Teheran and Winnipeg.

​“Bizarre and enchanting” – Hollywood Reporter

​​Screening times, review and trailer >>

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