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In the realm of great storylines, “A formerly flamboyant hairdresser takes a long walk across a small town to style a dead woman's hair” certainly hits the jackpot. Throw in two contrasting legends in the...

At the cusp of leaving her job and moving away to fulfil a long-time dream of going to college, Beta (Baize Busan) receives news her father died by suicide after battling an unnamed disease. Upon getting the...

“There is no normal in teenage years” utters a young girl as the sun goes down, her friends carrying cans of beer and chatting from the top of old, beaten trucks. It is a fitting observation to set the...

In 1995, commuters in Tokyo were deliberately exposed to a deadly gas called sarin in an act of domestic terrorism. Twelve people were killed and over a thousand injured. Me and the Cult Leader: A Modern...

Lisa Rovner explores women’s work in electronic music in her feature documentary debut Sisters With Transistors. The film is told through a combination of edited archival footage and voiceover, featuring...

László Nemes’ previous film, Son of Saul, was a harrowing and visceral fever dream, dragging the viewer through the charnel house of a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Much of its power came from...

Dopo La Guerra tells the half-true story of a group of Italian far-left political terrorists, whose amnesty to live in France was rescinded in 2002. Annarita Zambrano’s tense film combines thriller and...

Roaring down the trail blazed by the likes of Lena Dunham’s Girls, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag and Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child, Jeune Femme is the most memorable and entertaining film of the...

If you ever get invited to a Cannes beach party, never play "Would You Rather… ?" with Yorgos Lanthimos. The Greek writer-director has a perverse mind quite unlike anyone else working today, with previous...

Extreme Buddhism might sound like the brainstorm of a BBC Three producer, but in Barbet Schroeder’s ferocious documentary it’s about as far from a laughing matter as you could imagine. Despite their serene...

Desiree Akhavan's feature debut, Appropriate Behaviour, follows Shirin (Akhavan), a bisexual Persian American woman in Brooklyn struggling to rebuild her life after breaking up with her lesbian...

Jafar Panahi writes, directs and stars in this charming and humorous display of the eccentric spirit of Iranian society. Ostensibly a hidden camera documentary, a large part of the film's appeal lies in...

The One I Love is a crumpled-up love letter being tumble-dried inside one of the drums of The Twilight Zone. Charlie McDowell manages to crack open a window and pump a fresh breeze into a genre bloated with...

Drunktown’s Finest is Sydney Freeland’s directorial debut on a feature - and it shows. This film, which combines the increasingly interwoven stories of three young Native Americans, is never quite able to...