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Eastern austerity: studio Lenfilm under siege

At the 12th goEast Festival in Wiesbaden, John Riley finds debate raging about the precarious future of St Petersburg’s venerated film studio.

Film review: The Giants

Mapping the clash of innocence and experience on to a rites-of-passage adventure balanced somewhere between modern-day realism and the children’s literature of yesteryear, Bouli Lanners’ elliptical widescreen fable aims straight at one’s inner child, says Trevor Johnston.

Ride a white swan: on location with Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair’s Swandown

Andrew Kötting’s new film Swandown is the result of a bizarre pedalo trip he took with the writer Iain Sinclair. Nick James joins them.

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2012: in with the old

Geoff Andrew roams from Raoul Walsh’s grand west and Sergio Leone’s expanded gangster epic to the less-fêted works of Jean Grémillon at Bologna’s festival of recovery and discovery.

Film review: You’ve Been Trumped

Real-life echoes of Local Hero are just the start of Anthony Baxter’s record of one highlander’s defiance of Donald Trump’s Scotland makeover project.

Desert of the disappeared: Patricio Guzmán on Nostalgia for the Light

Known for his radical political documentaries, the 70-year-old Chilean director is back with a film which links his country’s hidden history to the secrets of the stars. He talks to Chris Darke in an extended online interview.

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