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★★★, festivals, out now, Reviews, Sundance, USASeptember 16, 2023

Fremont (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Fremont directed by Babak Jalali is an absurdist but moving look at displacement and the immigrant experience.

festivals, out now, ReviewsSeptember 7, 2023

Toronto International Film Festival 2023

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆

Toronto International Film Festival 2023

BFI London Film Festival 2023, festivals, London, out now, Reviews, UKAugust 31, 2023

BFI London Film Festival 2023: 4–15 October

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
BFI London Film Festival 2023 – programme

★★★, comedy, Galway Film Fleadh, Ireland, out nowAugust 30, 2023

Apocalypse Clown (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Apocalypse Clown directed by George Kane is bizarre and and anarchic: it won Best Irish Film at the Galway Film Fleadh.

★★★★, festivals, out now, Reviews, Venice Biennale 2023, Venice Biennale 2023August 30, 2023

Venice Film Festival 2023: 30 August-9 September

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Venice Film Festival 2023

★★★★, France, Germany, Mubi, out now, Reviews, Sundance, USAAugust 28, 2023

Passages (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Passages is Ira Sachs’ toxic European love triangle set in Paris, starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulos.

★★★, 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.

★★★★, 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.