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‘The Ceremony’: Edinburgh Review g4516
Two undocumented migrants take a strange road trip through the wilds of Yorkshire in this black-and-white British debut
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‘Smiles And Kisses You’: Edinburgh Review 12532s
Sensitive documentary explores the relationship between a North Carolina man and his AI-enhanced sex doll
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‘A Shrine’: Edinburgh Review 304y6j
Mobile phone-shot drama about an Iranian ex-pat in Montreal and a dubious get-rich-quick scheme he comes to regret
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‘At The Door Of The House, Who Will Come Knocking’: Sarajevo Review 61451x
Maja Novakovic’s award-winning documentary is an enigmatic portrait of life in rural Bosnia and Herzegovina
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‘To Kill A Wolf’: Edinburgh Review 5v1ja
Strong debut effectively updates Little Red Riding Hood to the modern day forests of Oregon
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‘Acting’: Edinburgh Review 1bu5s
Documentarian Sophie Fiennes teams with theatre company Cheek By Jowl for this illuminating exploration of the acting process
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‘Dad’s Lullaby’: Sarajevo Review 1r6y27
The impact of the war in Ukraine is felt through the experiences of a single family in this debut documentary
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‘Xibalba Monster’: Edinburgh Review e6c11
The Mayan ruins in Yucatan are fertile ground for a young boy’s fascination with death in this Edinburgh highlight
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‘Sunlight’: Edinburgh Review 6d3e6h
British comedian Nina Conti’s feature debut is an off-kilter road trip romance between a man and a woman dressed as a monkey
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‘Toxic’: Locarno Review 1561l
Golden Leopard-winner hones in on teenage girls and what they’ll do to get out of their dead-end town
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‘All The Mountains Give’: Edinburgh Review 456w2h
Kurdish smugglers eke out an existence in the Iran/Iraq borderlands in this impressive documentary filmed over six years
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’Lilies Not For Me’: Edinburgh Review 2o79
Fionn O’Shea is a gay novelist struggling with the homophobia of 1920s England in this surprisingly staid period debut
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‘Holy Electricity’: Sarajevo Review f4932
Colourful, uneven Georgian debut explores the city of Tbilisi through the exploits of two door-to-door salesmen
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‘Fugue’: Edinburgh Review 1f3wg
A man must return the body of his transgender lover to a remote Peruvian Amazon village for burial in this enigmatic Competition film
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‘Family Therapy’: Sarajevo Review 356l1s
A glass house in a Slovenian forest plays host to Sonia Prosenc’s satire of the nouveau riche
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‘Alien: Romulus’: Review 1w3b13
Cailee Spaeny picks up the cudgel in this efficient, derivative addition to the Alien franchise
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‘A Sister’s Tale’: Locarno Review 356q5j
Iranian documentarian Leila Amini follows her sister over seven years as she attempts to make it as a singer in Tehran
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‘Mexico 86’: Locarno Review 4q195n
Bérénice Béjo stars as a Guatemalan activist exiled to Mexico who must rebuild her relationship with her 10-year-old son
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‘The Sparrow In The Chimney’: Locarno Review 416gy
A family celebration proves a melting pot for sisterly tension in the final part of Ramon and Silvan Zurcher’s animal trilogy
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’Fréwaka’: Locarno Review x4df
Aislinn Clarke follows up The Devil’s Doorway with another atmospheric Irish horror