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★★★, Black filmmakers, documentary, out now, Reviews, Uganda, USA, Venice Biennale 2022August 28, 2023

Bobi Wine: The People’s President (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★ώ☆
Bobi Wine:The People’s President: an illuminating Uganda-set National Geographic documentary about the hugely popular musician turned politician who challenged the incumbent, long-serving President.

★★★★, Female Filmmakers, out now, Picturehouse, Reviews, Sundance, Sundance London 2023, UK, USAAugust 15, 2023

Scrapper (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆

Scrapper, an inventive, award-winning first feature written and directed by Charlotte Regan, was the crowd-pleasing opening film of the Sundance London Film Festival.

★★★★, festivals, Ireland, out now, ReviewsJuly 11, 2023

Galway Film Fleadh 11-16 July 2023

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Galway Film Fleadh 2023

★★★★, Female Filmmakers, out now, Reviews, Sundance London 2023, UK, USAJuly 8, 2023

Sundance London 2023 – Opening and Closing Films

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Sundance London 2023 Opening and Closing Films

★★★★, Female Filmmakers, festivals, out now, Reviews, SwitzerlandJuly 6, 2023

Locarno Film Festival 2023

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Locarno Film Festival 2023

★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2022, comedy, France, out now, Picturehouse, ReviewsJuly 5, 2023

Smoking Causes Coughing (2022) (Fumer Fait Tousser)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Smoking Causes Coughing, the brainchild of über-absurdist Quentin Dupieux, is bizarre, very, very silly, strangely disquieting and rather flimsy.

★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2022, Female Filmmakers, France, out now, Picturehouse, ReviewsJune 26, 2023

Mother and Son (2022) (Un Petit Frère)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Mother and Son is an ★★★★☆
involving, compassionate film by Léonor Serraille that poignantly shows the difficulties and the effects on a family – both positive and negative – of immigration into a strange country.

★★★★, biopic, festivals, France, Germany, out now, Picturehouse, ReviewsJune 26, 2023

La Syndicaliste (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Isabelle Huppert stars in Jean-Paul Salomé’s thriller and nuclear-industry investigation La Syndicaliste, based on the recent true story of French union official Maureen Kearney.

★★★★, Female Filmmakers, out now, Reviews, Sundance, USAJune 1, 2023

Reality (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
25-year-old former American intelligence specialist Reality Winner is confronted by FBI agents arriving at her home. Based on true events, Tina Satter’s film’s dialogue is directly from the transcript of their tense, transfixing conversation.