All Festivals articles

30 great films playing at BFI London Film Festival 2021

Spencer is a portrait of a royal on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Rituals and cycles of grief: 10 picks from FrightFest 2021

Locarno round-up: the best of the 2021 festival

Dead Flash proves Bertrand Mandico is best tolerated in smaller doses

The Legionnaire examines racial tensions amongst Roman riot police

She Will unearths feminine trauma buried by time

Mad God writhes through an underworld drenched in bodily fluids

The Cannes dispatch: notes from the riviera

Cannes 2021: Un Certain Regard round-up

Directors’ Fortnight: round-up

The Story of My Wife is all at sea in its exploration of marital dysfunction

Memoria shows Apichatpong at the peak of his mesmerising powers

The Year of the Everlasting Storm forges international bonds with a pandemic-era anthology

After Yang finds gif-sized glimpses of life after AI death

Paris, 13th District drains the colour from its French neighbourhood

France shows that all the world’s a stage for the media

In Front of Your Face finds beauty in its impermanent immediacy

Red Rocket shoots for the (porn)stars and finds them in the gutter

A Hero finds a debt-ridden prisoner walking streets paved with gold

Titane is a full-throttle masterpiece of road-rage, violence and queerness

The Tsugua Diaries delights with a playful Portuguese puzzle

The French Dispatch pens a lavishly Andersonian love letter to journalism

Three Floors is a Roman apartment block story not worth writing home about

Bergman Island looks at a filmmaking couple’s creative processes through a glass darkly

Întregalde drags bickering charity workers kicking and screaming through the mud

Drive My Car takes a meditative trip down memory lane

Ali & Ava serenades its Bradfordian sweethearts