Festivals

Chigozie Obioma is less interested in the Booker Prize trophy he might have won than the lifeblood the shortlist offered his novel The Fishermen – inciting interest in his literary work, but also questions on the state of a nation: Nigeria Read more »

Two films from London Film Festival centred on female protagonists who are trapped: Alex Ross Perry's Queen of Earth and Room, based on Emma Donoghue's novel of the same name Read more »

Two debut features from LFF: Sanna Lenken's My Skinny Sister and Matt Sorbel's Take Me To The River. Read more »

Rhys Ifans tells us how his new film, Under Milk Wood, a cinematic version of Dylan Thomas's radio play of the same name, blows the dust off the 1954 text and visualises its dark, erotic core Read more »

Two genre films that upend audience expectation catch our eye at BFI London Film Festival: Robert Eggers' period horror The Witch and The Assassin, from great Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien Read more »

We were charmed by Saoirse Ronan-starring Brooklyn and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Our Little Sister, two films concerning female protagonists making new lives for themselves, at BFI London Film Festival Read more »

Two of our finest gay filmmakers, Todd Haynes and Terence Davies, are screening two exceptional women’s pictures, Carol and Sunset Song, at this year’s London Film Festival Read more »