★★★★ Archives | Dog And Wolf

★★★★, Awards, BFI London Film Festival 2024, debut director, documentary, Female Filmmakers, out now, Reviews, UK, USANovember 26, 2024

The Taste of Mango (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Taste of Mango is an impressionistic collage of female abuse through three generations bound by enduring love.

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2024, out now, Reviews, TIFF 2024, UK, USANovember 22, 2024

★★★★☆
After the death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading the conclave to recruit a successor with rumour and conflict threatening to overtake the Vatican’s battle for power in Edward Berger’s thriller Conclave.

★★★★, Berlin Film Festival 2025, Berlinale, Costa Rica, documentary, Female Filmmakers, first feature, out now, Reviews, Spain, Women FilmmakersNovember 13, 2024

Memories of a Burning Body (2024) (Memorias de un Cuerpo que Arde)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Memories of a Burning Body is an incredibly moving, candid docufiction about older women’s sexuality, directed by award-winning Antonella Sudasassi Furniss.

★★★★, fashion, Italy, music, out now, Reviews, Rome 2024October 26, 2024

Rome 2024: The Opera! Arias for an Eclipse (2024) (Arie per un’eclissi)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Opera! Arias for an Eclipse is the extraordinary, unique artistic vision of Davide Livermore and Paolo Gep Cucco.

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2024, Reviews, TIFF 2024, UK, USAOctober 12, 2024

BFI LFF 2024: Conclave (2024)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
After the death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading the conclave to recruit a successor with rumour and conflict threatening to overtake the Vatican’s battle for power in Edward Berger’s thriller Conclave.

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2024, France, Italy, out now, Qatar, Reviews, Saudi Arabia, Venice Biennale 2024October 11, 2024

BFI London Film Festival 2024: Aïcha (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Aïcha, directed by Mehdi Barsaoui, is a gripping, thrilling study of the evolution of a young woman as she tries to find a new life and new identity after being assumed dead, amid endemic corruption in Tunisia.

★★★★, Berlin Film Festival 2024, BFI London Film Festival 2024, Canada, Female Filmmakers, France, out now, Reviews, TunisiaOctober 11, 2024

BFI LFF 2024: Who Do I Belong To (2024) (Mé el Aïn)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Who Do I Belong To, an unsettlingly topical first feature by Meryam Joobeur, looks at identity in a post-ISIS world and sets out to challenge perceptions and prejudices.

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2024, Cannes Film Festival 2024, Croatia, Iceland, Netherlands, out now, ReviewsOctober 11, 2024

BFI LFF 2024: When the Light Breaks (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
When the Light Breaks is a beautiful, poetic study of young people’s grief by Rúnar Rúnarsson.

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Cannes Film Festival 2023, France, out now, ReviewsSeptember 20, 2024

The Goldman Case (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Goldman Case directed by Cédric Kahn grippingly reconstructs the 1976 trial of voluble and charismatic leftist Pierre Goldman and tackles antisemitism and history.

★★★★, coming of age, Female Filmmakers, first feature, India, Modern Films, out now, Reviews, SundanceSeptember 16, 2024

Girls Will Be Girls (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Girls Will Be Girls, writer/director Shuchi Talati’s first feature, is a well-observed dramatisation of the misogyny that affects the lives of girls and women.

★★★★, Belgium, first feature, out now, Reviews, sci-fi, TIFF 2024, UkraineSeptember 11, 2024

Toronto 2024: U Are The Universe (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
U Are The Universe is Ukrainian writer and director Pavlo Ostrikov’s gem of an amazing first feature.

★★★★, France, Italy, out now, Qatar, Reviews, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Venice Biennale 2024September 8, 2024

VENICE 2024: Aïcha (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Aïcha, directed by Mehdi Barsaoui, is a thrilling study of a young woman’s life amid endemic corruption in Tunisia, as she tries to find a new life and new identity.