The 1st May brings a fascinating reflection on the oppression of workers, a student film, and a variety of works from local artists.
Crossing Europe Day Two: What’s Worse Than Communism?
Festivals
Reviews and dispatches exploring the best new cinema premiering around the world.
Crossing Europe Day One: Been to Linz, Been to Linz
A struggling mother and an absent father make for diametrically opposed cinematic visions in a solid first day at Crossing Europe.
Football Is Nothing Without Its Ultras
The highs and lows of die-hard football fan culture is lovingly surveyed in Ragnhild Ekner’s excellent documentary Ultras.
Hard Pass: The Quixotic Politics of Cannes Rejections
Cannes is supposed to be a festival that supports auteur cinema. So why does the festival often give its most long-standing guests the cold shoulder?
True/False 2025: Our Future’s Keepers
We survey three films playing at True/False film festival and their tendency to complicate simplistic ideas of cultural homogenisation.
“The whole film had to be a meeting place for deaf and hearing audiences” — Eva Libertad on her debut feature Deaf
Eva Libertad explains being inspired by her deaf sister and bridging hearing and non-hearing worlds for her powerful Panorama breakout Deaf.
Dreams (Sex Love). Writing vs. Living
An unrequited love story powers Dreams, the final installment in Dag Johan Haugerud’s powerful Sex Love trilogy, playing in Competition.
He Just Felt Like Doing It
What Does that Nature Say to You, the latest film from Hong Sangsoo, is another poetic slice of life gem about what constitutes a good life.
Kontinental ’25 Is a Dispatch From Right Now
Kontinental ’25 is Radu Jude’s latest examination of the way we live now that is alternately humorous, terrifying and deeply stimulating.
Meet Me at the Forum
With a vital focus on Ukraine, this year’s Forum films offer a wide tent of differing visions from the cutting-edge of experimental cinema.