Alexa Dalby Archives | Dog And Wolf

★★★, 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 BDSM.

★★★★, Alexa Dalby, festivals, out now, Reviews, UKNovember 1, 2025

★★★★☆
Dragonfly is a small film. Small in the sense it’s obviously low budget (location) and a two-hander. But it’s so well written (by director Paul Andrew Williams) and exquisitely acted that it seems bigger.

★★, Edinburgh, EIFF 2025, out now, Reviews, SXSW, UKOctober 29, 2025

Odyssey (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

★★☆☆☆
The confusingly titled Odyssey is a violent thriller set in a gentrifying Britain, directed by Gerard Johnson.

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2025, out nowOctober 20, 2025

BFI LFF 2025: Winners

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
BFI LFF 2025: WINNERS

BFI LFF 2025 Winners

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2025, Female Filmmakers, Germany, out now, TorontoOctober 11, 2025

BFI LFF 2025: Sound of Falling (2025): (In die Sonne schauen)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆

Mascha Schilinsky’s superb Sound of Falling is an immersive, fractured reflection on childhood, telling the story of four young girls from different eras.

★★★★, 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.

★★★★, debut director, Drama, festivals, First-time filmmakers, out now, Picturehouse, Reviews, UKOctober 3, 2025

Urchin (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
In , the pacy, heart-breaking, award-winning first feature by actor Harris Dickinson, a young man on the streets of London embarks on an urban odyssey in hopes of re-assimilating into society.

★★, comedy, France, out now, ReviewsOctober 3, 2025

The Kitchen Brigade (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★☆☆☆
The Kitchen Brigade is a wish-fulfilment comedy about the topical issue of migration to the European Union.

★★★★, Awards, festivals, out now, ReviewsSeptember 27, 2025

Busan Film Festival 2025: 17-26 September: Awards

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Busan Film Festival 2025 Awards

★★★★, documentary, Female Filmmakers, out now, Reviews, Sundance, USASeptember 21, 2025

The Librarians (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Oscar-nominated The Librarians, directed by Kim A Snyder and executive produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, is a documentary about the unlikely defenders of intellectual freedom in schools in Trump’s changing USA.

festivals, JapanSeptember 18, 2025

Tokyo Film Festival: Tokyo Taxi (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

Tokyo Taxi, a remake of Driving Madeleine, directed by Yamada Yoji, announced as the 38th TIFF Centerpiece. The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is…

★★★★, out now, San Sebastián, San Sebastián 2025September 17, 2025

San Sebastián Film Festival: 19-27 September 2025: Awards

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
San Sebastián 2025

★★★★, festivals, out now, Palestine, ReviewsSeptember 8, 2025

From Ground Zero (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
From Ground Zero, compiled by Rashid Masharawi and executive produced by Michael Moore, is a poignant compilation of short films showing everyday life in a destroyed Gaza.