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Daisy-May Hudson’s often wrenching but ultimately uplifting drama Lollipop revolves around two women, Mollie (Posy Sterling) and Amina (Idil Ahmed). Fr... Read more »

You wouldn't want to watch Pig, the debut film by writer-director Michael Sarnoski, in Smell-O-Vision. While it’s set in the world of Portland’s ... Read more »

Europa follows young migrant Kamal (Adam Ali) as he attempts to enter Europe by foot after fleeing Iraq. The gruelling journey reaches a dangerous apex on th... Read more »

Yngvild Sve Flikke’s riotous take on the unplanned pregnancy comedy unfolds through the creativity, rage and vulgarity of its protagonist. Comics artis... Read more »

“So may we start?” asks the French director Leos Carax during Annette’s opening scene, set in a recording studio. Brothers Ron and Russell ... Read more »

The summer of 2019: the citizens of Hong Kong pour into the streets dressed in black, their faces hidden behind masks. Two million voices protest against the... Read more »

Jeff Goldblum, as Dr Ian Malcolm, once said “life finds a way”. This is true both for the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park and their creator, spec... Read more »

The most striking shot in Lena Karbe's documentary Black Mambas is one of its last. Qolile, a Black Mamba, an all-female anti-poaching unit from So... Read more »

Armed with a camera phone, an amateur cast and a skeleton crew largely comprised of just himself (as pointed out in charmingly idiosyncratic closing credits)... Read more »

The confident stomp of Dr. Martens down the streets of London. Leather jackets rolled up at the sleeves. Protest signs brandished without fear. From the seco... Read more »

“There is no special,” says Gloria, leaning against the dimly lit counter. “What you see is what you get.” She’s not wrong. Thi... Read more »

Manuela Irene’s exploration of death through a child’s eyes begins with a chance encounter on the side of the road, when Rogelio stuffs his pocke... Read more »

Ukrainian filmmaker Kateryna Gornostai wanted to make a ‘boring film’ about adolescence. Stop-Zemlia was the outcome: a debut coming-of... Read more »

AI is considered to be the holy grail of computer programming – a sentient entity capable of computing impossibly complex equations in microseconds. Ye... Read more »

In My Small Land, Japanese writer-director Emma Kawawada, who’s making her feature debut, presents a touching and honest exploration of the Kurdish ref... Read more »

Coming to grips with the fact that we aren’t fortunate enough to walk down the street without fear or paranoia is part of every girl’s transition... Read more »

It’s hard to think of an animation studio held in higher esteem, with a more boundless influence, than Studio Ghibli. At first glance, you might think ... Read more »

Director Janis Pugh has a feel-good hit on her hands with this exuberant, poignant love story set in North Wales. Helen (Louise Brealey) finds camaraderie in... Read more »

When we sit down with American musician and filmmaker Amanda Kramer, she’s preparing for an LA screening of Please Baby Please – one of two ... Read more »

Lotteries, so we are told, have the power to change lives, and this couldn’t be more true than for Twiggy, Captain and Arrow, three homeless men on the... Read more »

It’s a powerful film that can make a working-class lad from the Lowlands care about Highland gentry, but that’s precisely the case with Cindy Jan... Read more »

Since his debut in Karl Markovics’ Breathing, Thomas Schubert has been attracted to difficult characters who may not fully understand their own motivat... Read more »

It feels odd calling a film about brothers murdering their abusive dad on a hunting trip 'accessible', but any film about parents and children benefits from ... Read more »

The stunning, foreboding rural Oregon landscape is the backdrop to director Kelsey Taylor’s modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. An unnamed wood... Read more »

Chris Stokes is not what most people would envision when they hear about the guy who married his AI-animated sex doll (or “love doll”, to use Chr... Read more »

The city of Fremont in northern California is an innocuous place – quiet, everyday, nondescript. It is not, perhaps, a particularly cinematic place; or... Read more »

Orlando is a poet and aristocrat who can change their sex, found in the pages of Virginia Woolf’s fictionalised biography of Orlando's centuries-long l... Read more »

It's going to be a bit longer than planned before we see the new look Edinburgh International Film Festival programme. The programme launch was original... Read more »

Today Edinburgh International Film Festival launched its The Young & the Wild programme, the festival’s strand devoted to films about and for young... Read more »

Under traditional sharia law, there is a doctrine named the qisas that is still practised in parts of the Islamic world. Based in retaliatory justice, it pla... Read more »