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Recent highlights from film festivals around the world
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Laura Poitras
USA ·  2022

The life of famed photographer Nan Goldin and her activism against the disgraced pharmaceutical billionaire Sackler family, especially their patronage of the art world. 

​​​“Profound and incendiary” – Variety
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​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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Beginning
Dasatskisi

Dea Kulumbegashvili
Georgia/France ·  2020 

A devout young woman wrestles with persecution and patriarchal confinement in this feature debut that recalls the works of Michael Haneke, Carlos Reygadas and Chantal Akerman.

​​“A revelation” – Luca Guadagnino
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​Screening times, review and trailer >>

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BlackBerry

Matt Johnson
Canada ·  ​2023

This whip-smart Canadian comedy channels the snark of The Social Network to tell the extraordinarily dramatic rise and equally spectacular fall of the world’s first smartphone.

​“Triumphant – wonderfully funny” – Deadline
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​Screening times, review and trailer >>

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The Blue Caftan
​Le bleu du caftan

Maryam Touzani
France/Morocco/Belgium/Denmark  ·  2022

A master tailor’s wife watches as her closeted husband falls in love with his apprentice. Maryam Touzani’s sensuous feature is as elegant and finely crafted as the garments in her film. 

​“A vibrant ode to love in all its many forms” – ​Playlist

​​Screening times, review and trailer >>

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Eileen

William Oldroyd
USA/UK ·  2023

Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway star in William Oldroyd’s neo-noir follow-up to Lady Macbeth about a young secretary who is dazzled by a glamorous colleague in ’60s New England.

​“Sultry, sinister and wholly surprising” – ​Daily Beast

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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EO

Jerzy Skolimowski
​Poland/Italy  ·  ​2022

Polish veteran Jerzy Skolimowski returns with this allegorical tale of a donkey who takes a surreal journey across Europe, experiencing cruelty and kindness in equal measure.  

​“Hypnotic. Bold in a way few contemporary films truly are” – BFI

​​Screening times, review and trailer >>

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Petite Maman

Céline Sciamma
France ·  2021
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A young girl makes a mysterious new friend while staying over at her late grandmother’s country home in Céline Sciamma’s exquisitely crafted and spellbinding modern fairytale.  

​“An astonishingly insightful and heartbreakingly hopeful cinematic poem” – BFI

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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The Royal Hotel

Kitty Green
Australia/UK/USA  ·  ​2023

Based on real-life events, Kitty Green’s savvy outback thriller finds two American backpackers signing up for a holiday job tending bar at an Australian pub in the middle of nowhere. 

​“Explosive. Subverts whatever expectations you might have about a thriller.” – Indiewire

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>​

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Tótem

Eddie Lila Avilés
Mexico/France/Denmark/Netherlands ·  ​2023

This moving and sensitive semi-autobiographical feature from Mexican director Lila Avilés follows a family’s journey of grief and loss through the eyes of a young girl.

​“A richly textured, deeply compassionate portrait of a family” – Manohla Dargis, NY Times

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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