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Many years after War for the Planet of the Apes, the ape empire grows and the future for all apes and humans alike hangs in the balance.
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Bird: Andrea Arnold’s tender contemporary fable
Newcomer Nykiya Adams triumphs in this otherworldly kitchen sink story of a young girl who forms a bond with a peculiar stranger.
By Ela Bittencourt
5 things to watch this weekend – 17 to 19 May
By Sam Wigley
Hidden City: mapping the co-ordinates of Stephen Poliakoff’s psychogeographic mystery
By Adam Scovell
“Not all trauma smells the same”: Luna Carmoon on Hoard
By Katie McCabe
Luis Ospina: the politics of vampires
By Ela Bittencourt
10 great French avant-garde films of the 1920s
By David Parkinson
Hoard: Luna Carmoon wields disgust like a weapon in this filthily captivating debut
Hoard: Luna Carmoon wields disgust like a weapon in this filthily captivating debutEvents
Writer-director Luna Carmoon and actor Joseph Quinn visit BFI Southbank to talk about Carmoon's debut feature, in which a young woman journeys through childhood trauma and emerging sexuality.
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