Alexa Dalby

★★★, Belgium, Berlin Film Festival 2024, Netherlands, out now, queer, ReviewsFebruary 18, 2024

Berlinale 2024: Young Hearts (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Heart-warming coming-of-age story Young Hearts is award-winning Anthony Schatteman’s feature debut at the Berlinale.

★★★, Berlin Film Festival 2024, out now, Reviews, UKFebruary 18, 2024

Berlinale 2024: The Visitor (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
The Visitor is a provocative feature allegory of contemporary British issues by Bruce LaBruce, the Canadian artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground director.

★★★, Amazon, Female Filmmakers, festivals, out now, Reviews, UAEFebruary 14, 2024

The Letter Writer (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
The Letter Writer by Layla Kaylif is about the painful coming of age, emotionally and politically, for a boy and a country.

★★★★, Belgium, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Cannes Film Festival 2023, France, oscars, out now, Picturehouse, ReviewsFebruary 6, 2024

The Taste of Things (2023) (The Pot-au-Feu) (La Passion de Dodin Bouffant)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Taste of Things, directed by Tran Anh Hung is so, so French. It’s beautiful and it’s a 19th-century love story that is also food and beauty obsessed.

★★★, documentary, Female Filmmakers, out now, Reviews, UK, USA, Women FilmmakersFebruary 6, 2024

Your Fat Friend (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Your Fat Friend, a documentary directed by Jeanie Finlay, is the touching story of obesity rights campaigner Aubrey Gordon.

★★★, Argentina, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Cannes Film Festival 2023, Chile, Denmark, First-time filmmakers, France, Germany, Mubi, oscars, out now, Reviews, Sweden, TaiwanFebruary 5, 2024

The Settlers (2023) (Los Colonos)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
The Settlers is an angry, violent Western-type version of the brutal colonial birth of Chile by first-time filmmaker Felipe Gálvez.

★★★★★, Alexa Dalby, Berlin Film Festival 2024, out now, Reviews, Short Films, Women FilmmakersJanuary 29, 2024

Berlinale 2024: Programme and line-up

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Berlinale 2024: line-up

★★★, Alexa Dalby, Denmark, Female Filmmakers, festivals, Finland, Iceland, out now, Reviews, thrillerJanuary 28, 2024

IFFR 2024: Natatorium (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Natatorium is a female-centred, atmospheric thriller debut in a World Premiere at the IFFR for Iceland’s Helena Stefánsdóttir.

★★★, Alexa Dalby, out now, Reviews, thriller, UKJanuary 23, 2024

Jackdaw (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Jackdaw directed by Jamie Childs is a fast-moving action thriller that beautifully exploits the northeast’s brutal post-industrial landscape and breath-taking country.

★★★, Germany, Italy, out now, Reviews, UK, USAJanuary 23, 2024

Padre Pio (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio links religious fervour, the growth of fascism and socialism, and the Ukraine invasion, and is based on true events culminating on 14 October 1920.

★★★★, Alexa Dalby, out now, Reviews, UKJanuary 23, 2024

This Blessed Plot (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
This Blessed Plot: this charming film, directed by Marc Isaacs, celebrates this disappearing England and its real people, current and historical.

★★★★, festivals, horror, Modern Films, out now, Reviews, SXSW, Toronto, UKDecember 24, 2023

Raging Grace (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Raging Grace is an unusual contemporary social-comment-psychological-horror feature debut by British/Filipino Paris Zarcilla, an exciting new filmmaking voice.

★★★, Croatia, festivals, Lithuania, Mubi, oscars, out now, Reviews, SerbiaDecember 5, 2023

Traces (2022) (Tragovi)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Traces (Tragovi) is a sensitive portrayal by first-time feature director Dubravka Turic of a Zagreb academic’s journey through grief to identity. It is Croatia’s entry for the 2024 Oscars.