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A young rapper teaches teens in a rough part of town how to express themselves through rhyme and verse in Morocco’s Oscar submission. Anas’s students are made up of young people playing fictionalised...

Elie Grappe’s sports and politics drama, set against the 2013-2014 Maidan Uprising, skilfully captures societal unrest through the eyes of a youngster with ambitions she tries - and fails - to separate from...

The story is timeless even if the specifics are new. A young man, entitled, the world at his feet, has his eyes on investment banking supremacy. However, in his hubris he makes a crucial error and is banished...

Executive produced by Darren Aronofsky, Wladyka’s drama begins in stress and hopelessness and then drives this terrifying mood to the maximum. Kaylee (Kali Reis) is a former boxer whose sister vanished...

Jeremy LaLonde’s near-future sci-fi, written prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, sees humanity threatened by an even more serious plague: a fungus in the world’s water supplies that leads to certain death,...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2020 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. Very little happens over the course of Blanco en Blanco (White on White), and yet each series of vignettes...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. If a society is constructed by the stories it tells, the world in Undergods is an unsettling and sparse one,...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. France’s low age of consent and wave after wave of abuse emanating from its artistic community are...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. As Aubrey Plaza’s Allison sits down to write in a luxurious cabin by a foggy lake, Black Bear introduces its...

Comparisons to Before Sunrise are inevitable when two protagonists spend an evening wandering a city contemplating life. While Linklater’s trilogy is a more polished piece of work, Our Midnight doesn’t...

The first feature documentary entirely in Gaelic, Iorram (Boat Song) is a visually poetic documentation of Outer Hebridean fishing community culture. Rediscovered and restored audio recordings dating back to...

There’s a little too much going on in Victim(s), a drama based on the true events surrounding a teenage boy stabbing three classmates, killing one in the process, supposedly over a new girl at school....

What happened is never as interesting as why it mattered. Some biopics, such as the recent Schemers, are like Wikipedia pages when they should be novels. Creation Stories goes some way to rectifying this. A...

Tae-il (Hong Isaac) reconnects with Ji-won (Jang Haeun), former bandmate and now teacher at a music school. Her devotion is to her teenage pupils, four of whom have started a metal band, hoping to win a local...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2020 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. Melina León weaves events and references from throughout Peru’s tumultuous 1980s into a feature debut that...