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★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2025, festivals, France, out now, ReviewsMarch 1, 2026

SIRAT (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Sirat by Oliver Laxe is a desert survival story — and one of the year’s most gripping films

★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2025, Cannes Film Festival 2025, coming of age, first feature, Iraq, oscars, out now, ReviewsFebruary 12, 2026

The President’s Cake (2025) (Mamlaket al-qasab)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Despite her attempts to avoid it, a nine-year-old rural schoolgirl in Iraq wins the dubious prize of being the one chosen in her class to make a birthday cake to celebrate the dictator’s birthday in The President’s Cake, directed by Hasan Hadi.

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2025, Cannes Film Festival 2025, France, Netflix, out now, Reviews, USAJanuary 26, 2026

Nouvelle Vague (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆

Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) and Citizen Kane are generally accepted to be the most influential films ever made: Jean-Luc Godard and Orson Welles, their directors. Breathless was on television recently: it is now part of film history.

★★★, Alexa Dalby, BFI London Film Festival 2025, Cannes Film Festival 2025, debut director, out now, queer, Reviews, UKNovember 14, 2025

Pillion (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Pillion is a sensational feature debut by Harry Lighton with graphic images of sub-dom gay sex.

★★★★, Alexa Dalby, Cannes Film Festival 2024, festivals, France, out now, ReviewsOctober 8, 2025

Suleymane’s Story (2024) (L’Histoire de Suleymane)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆

Souleymane’s Story, directed by Boris Lojkine, is a searingly realistic two days in the life of one of the invisible asylum seekers – a bicycle courier in Paris.