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★★★, Edinburgh, Ireland, out now, Reviews, UKSeptember 17, 2023

Ballywalter (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Northern Ireland-set Ballywalter, directed by Prasanna Puwanarajah and written by Stacey Gregg, is a moving little gem that stars Seána Kerslake and Patrick Kielty.

★★★, 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.

★★★, 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.

★★★★, 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.