The absurdities of the privileged in the face of incoming disaster is smartly dissected in João Nuno Pinto’s Tallinn entry 18 Holes to Paradise.
18 Holes to Paradise Keeps Things Under Par
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A Diamond on The Hudson
Craig Brewer’s Song Song Blue is a surprisingly powerful musical biopic that rests upon the remarkable easygoing charm of Kate Hudson.
Peeping Trojans, Slivering Sofas
A sleek German answer to Philip Noyce’s Sliver, Interior uses a sexual taboo to interrogate a world where all we do is watch — and rarely intervene.
Forastera. Teenage Grief Under the Mallorcan Sun.
Lucía Aleñar Iglesias’ promising debut finds a unique angle on coming-of-age and haunted house tropes — marking her as a director to watch.
Between Dreams and Hope. Between Risk and Compromise.
Farnoosh Samadi’s blistering thriller Between Dreams and Hope captures the compromises of a young trans man navigating the difficulties of modern-day Iran.
THAT GIRL
A transgender Macedonian woman radically transforms the lives of a group of tomboys in Kukla’s assured and heartfelt Fantasy — live from Locarno!
Mosquitoes Is Big, Bold and More Than a Little Messy
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 Seasons, Two Strangers. Wistful and Intimate Compassion.
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.
Mare’s Nest Belongs in a Museum
Ben Rivers’ latest feature is a long and meandering slog through the apocalypse that might work in a museum, but is deadening on the big screen.
White Snail. Love Covered in Slime.
Space Dogs directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter’s first fully fiction feature is a dark and disturbing love story set in Belarus.