By Katie Goh
The challenges and ethics of showing life in an active conflict zone were a key theme of the festival's 2022 edition.
By Katie Goh
One of the UK’s most promising young actors reveals how contemporary politics influenced his role in Munich: The Edge of War.
By Katie Goh
A selection of our favourite under-the-radar highlights from this year’s LFF to add to your viewing calendar.
By Katie Goh
With Living Proof: A Climate Story, director Dr Emily Munro hopes to inspire change by looking to the past.
By Katie Goh
Studio Ghibli alums Masashi Ando and Masayuki Miyaji channels Princess Mononoke in their visually striking “medical fantasy”.
By Katie Goh
Cindy Jansen’s intriguing documentary chronicles one man’s life on one of Scotland’s most remote islands.
By Katie Goh
My Childhood, My Country sees filmmaker Phil Grabsky and journalist Shoaib Sharifi capture a young man’s life.
By Katie Goh
Steve McQueen and James Rogan’s three-part docuseries examines three pivotal events from 1981.
By Katie Goh
Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby forge a connection on the American frontier in Mona Fastvold’s period romance.
By Katie Goh
Gabrielle Zilkha’s documentary Queering the Script looks at how fans have fought for more diverse representation.
By Katie Goh
Director Alice Winocour and star Eva Green deliver a moving addition to the parent-in-space genre.
By Katie Goh
Beanie Feldstein brings bags of charm to this deft adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s coming-of-age novel.
By Katie Goh
Ron Peck’s Nighthawks survives as much more than a historical document of gay life in a bygone era.
By Katie Goh
Céline Sciamma’s sumptuous, quietly radical 18th century love story is one of the year’s very best.
By Katie Goh
This origin story of an American hero, starring Cynthia Erivo, is rendered as a bland adventure yarn.
By Katie Goh
Cynthia Erivo is superb in this otherwise sketchy and underpowered biopic of rebel slave, Harriet Tubman.
By Katie Goh
This nifty adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s 2014 bestseller boasts a charming central turn by Beanie Feldstein.
By Katie Goh
Eva Green is an astronaut preparing to leave her young daughter for a year-long mission in Alice Winocour's emotional fourth feature.
By Katie Goh
This Changes Everything asks why things aren’t improving for women in the film industry.
By Katie Goh
Four school friends hit the Scottish Highlands in first-time writer/director Ninian Doff’s offbeat adventure.
By Katie Goh
The musician-turned-filmmaker explores the history of the genre in her insightful debut, Romantic Comedy.
By Katie Goh
Dykes, Camera, Action! features first-hand accounts from Barbara Hammer and Desiree Akhavan.
By Katie Goh
This overlooked classic pioneered an entire subgenre of films about women living in the big city.
By Katie Goh
Films like Blade Runner 2049 project male fantasies by placing women in roles of domestic servitude.
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