Farnoosh Samadi’s blistering thriller Between Dreams and Hope captures the compromises of a young trans man navigating the difficulties of modern-day Iran.
Between Dreams and Hope. Between Risk and Compromise.

Exploring the Outer Edge of Film
Farnoosh Samadi’s blistering thriller Between Dreams and Hope captures the compromises of a young trans man navigating the difficulties of modern-day Iran.
David Pablos’ riveting Mexican film En El Camino, winner of the Queer Lion, presents a fresh take on the queer road trip movie.
Stephan Komanderev uses the coronavirus pandemic to explore the horrors of labour exploitation in one of Europe’s poorest regions.
Evi Kalogiropoulou’s deeply disappointing Gorgonà leans so heavily into fascist aesthetics it starts to resemble the very thing it criticises.
Noomi Rapace is highly forbidding as the Saint of the Peripheries in Mitevska’s Mother Teresa biopic, yet this seven-day narrative ends up disappointing.
A father makes a devastating mistake in Tereza Nvotová’s Otec, bleak and hellish depiction of every parent’s worst nightmare.
A transgender Macedonian woman radically transforms the lives of a group of tomboys in Kukla’s assured and heartfelt Fantasy — live from Locarno!
Not everything in Mosquitoes lands, but its big, and bold swings show off the ambition of Nicole and Valentina Bertani’s off-kilter coming-of-age vision.
Two distinct, writerly stories emerge from Sho Miyake’s pen in his wistful adaptation of Yoshiharu Tsuge’s manga Mr. Ben and His Igloo, A View of the Seaside.
Dry Leaf, Alexandre Koberidze’s much anticipated follow up to What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?, is another meandering exploration of family and football.