All Festivals articles
By us, about us, for all: why films by trans people matter for everyone
Two films about transgender and gender non-conforming people at BFI Flare 2021 are representation at its finest – the wider film industry should take note.
By Thomas Flew
Five recommendations at BFI Flare 2021
By Chrystel Oloukoï
Brother’s Keeper suggests Kurdish oppression begins in school
By Caitlin Quinlan
Ted K visits the Unabomber’s neck of the woods
By John Bleasdale
French Exit sends Michelle Pfeiffer into the Parisian night
By Graham Fuller
Fabian or Going to the Dogs dives headlong with Weimar Germany’s lost generation
By Jordan Cronk
Petite Maman is a magical story of childhood love and loneliness
By Jessica Kiang
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn pokes Romania’s hypocrisies in the eye
By Carmen Gray
Azor follows a quiet Swiss banker through Argentina’s dirty war
By Nick James
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy spins yarns of connection and coincidence in the conditional tense
By Becca Voelcker
Mr. Bachmann and His Class instils migrant wisdom in a new Germany
By Carmen Gray
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? is a Georgian romance with Kafkaesque quirks
By Ela Bittencourt
A Cop Movie blows the lid off the act of policing
By Jonathan Romney
Introduction bridges the generational gap in Hong Sangsoo’s typical style
By Nick James
Ninjababy pits a reluctant mother-to-be against her sweary unborn offspring
By John Bleasdale
Gritt follows a woman’s self-destructive, determined dreams of artistic glory
By Ela Bittencourt
All Light, Everywhere is an illuminative meditation on the nature of seeing
By Laura Jacobs
Rotterdam round-up: the best of the 2021 IFFR
By Kambole Campbell
Archipelago traverses Québec’s cultural terrain as an animated anthology
By Neil Young
The Witches of the Orient shows the cultural influence of Japanese volleyball stars
By Jonathan Romney
Riders of Justice shows Mads Mikkelsen wreaking paternal vengeange
By John Bleasdale
Censor splices cut-throat video nasty violence with smart social commentary
By Ela Bittencourt
One for the Road: a stylish but superficial Thai road trip
By Thomas Flew
Flee: an evocative, animated documentary of escape from Afghanistan
By Caitlin Quinlan
In the Same Breath: the Covid-19 pandemic goes under the microscope
By Sophie Brown
Human Factors: a tense, puzzling family drama
By Thomas Flew
President: a startling story of Zimbabwean electoral fraud
By Caitlin Quinlan
I Was a Simple Man: a poetic but sluggish ghost story
By Kelli Weston
Luzzu: an earnest, neorealistic Maltese fishing drama
By Thomas Flew