Triangle of Sadness (2021)
★★★★☆
Triangle of Sadness, Ruben Ôstland’s second Palme d’or winner, is an uncompromising black contemporary satire.
★★★★
BFI LFF 2022: The Blue Caftan
★★★★☆
The Blue Caftan by Maryam Touzani, screening at the BFI LFF 2022, is a beautiful film celebrating understated love and tenderness in everyday life.
Emily (2022)
★★★★☆
Emily Brontë’s creative inspiration is explored through an imagined version of the author’s short life in Frances O’Connor’s stirring directorial debut Emily.
BFI LFF 2022: Triangle of Sadness
★★★★☆
Triangle of Sadness, Ruben Ôstland’s second Palme d’or winner screening at the BFI LFF 2022 on 11 and 12 October 2022 , is an uncompromising blackly contemporary satire.
BFI LFF 2022: Holy Spider
★★★★☆
Holy Spider, angrily written and directed by Ali Abbasi (Border), and screening at the BFI London Film Festival, is a grisly, reality-based story of violence against women in a patriarchal, theocratic society.
BFI LFF 2022: Godland
★★★★☆
Godland, directed by Hlynur Pálmason, is an incredibly visually beautiful and involving unfolding story of the consequences of a Danish Lutheran priest’s loss of faith in 19th-century Iceland.
BFI LFF 2022: No Bears
★★★★☆
BFI LFF 2022:No Bears , screening at the BFI LFF 2022, is Jafar Panahi’s latest multi-layered film, boldly showing his plight and that of filmmaking itself in the context of Iran’s draconian restrictions.
BFI LFF 2022: 1976
★★★★☆
Chilean political thriller 1976 screening at the BFI London Film Festival is an unbearably tense and involving debut from actor turned director Manuela Martelli, starring award-winning Aline Kuppenheim.
BFI LFF 2022: Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters (2022)
★★★★☆
Kanaval, an immersive documentary by Leah Gordon and Eddie Hutton-Mills screened at the BFI London Film Festival reveals the traditional and cultural significance of carnival in Haiti with striking footage and in Haitians own words.
BFI LFF 2022: Corsage
★★★★☆
A compelling woman-led re-imagining of the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Corsage, directed by Marie Kreutzer and starring Vicky Krieps , screened in the BFI London Film Festival 2022.
It Is In Us All (2022)
★★★★☆
It Is In Us All is a strange and mystical film debut by Antonia Campbell-Hughes. held together by Cosmo Jarvis’s extraordinarily visceral central performance, set against awe-inspiring, massive Irish landscapes.
Faya Dayi (2021)
★★★★☆
Faya Dayi, a poetic documentary by director, producer and cinematographer Jessica Beshir, paints a tapestry of haunting recollections and stories about khat that create a vivid picture of the socio-political landscape in Ethiopia.
Everything Went Fine (2021) (Tout s’est bien passé)
★★★★☆
Everything Went Fine by François Ozon is a tender, surprisingly darkly humorous look at euthanasia and family relationships.
The Worst Person in the World (2021)
★★★★☆
The Worst Person in the World is an enchanting but dark Nordic coming-of-age-rom-com by Joachim Trier, starring a luminous, award-winning central performance by Renate Reinsve.