A BDSM romcom, a Japanese horror video game adaptation, and a medieval fantasy featuring Charli xcx: here are our top picks from this year’s festival
Sep 15, 2025
India Donaldson’s debut feature follows 17-year-old Sam as she heads out to the Catskills for a camping trip with her father, Chris, and his newly divorced best friend Matt
May 21, 2025
Georgian director Déa Kulumbegashvili speaks to Dazed about filming a real birth, the current state of Georgian politics and cinema, and her new film, April
Oct 09, 2024
This year’s festival features Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of William Burroughs’ novel Queer, plus a heartwarming animated film about a ragtag group of animals who are brought together after a flood of biblical proportions
Sep 12, 2024
Featuring Hayao Miyazaki’s swansong, a subversive love story set in Senegal, and a dark comedy charting a runaway teen girl’s journey across America
Sep 25, 2023
Featuring a donkey-starring drama, Noah Baumbach’s black comedy about family life, and an interpretation of Twin Peaks courtesy of Lars von Trier
Sep 13, 2022
Director Fred Baillif discusses his bold new unscripted film, which takes place in a care home in Geneva
Feb 25, 2022
The Japanese auteur’s latest film is a feminist retelling of Beauty and the Beast, adapted for an Extremely Online generation
Feb 03, 2022
The French auteur and director of 2016’s Raw discusses shock values and taboos, and how society makes women ‘designated victims’
Dec 25, 2021
Valdimar Jóhannsson’s debut, out from A24, is a warped comedy drama about a couple in rural isolation and a lamb – it’s Iceland’s Oscar entry, but the team behind the movie don’t want you to watch the trailer, or read this interview
Dec 15, 2021
The Hand of God is the Italian filmmaker’s tribute to football legend Diego Maradona and 1980s Naples, imbued with his own deeply personal experiences: ‘to see Maradona... was my first contact with art’
Dec 10, 2021
Romanian auteur Radu Jude talks winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, making polarising art critics call ‘too progressive’, and Pizza Hut buffets
Nov 26, 2021
Following the success of her Oscar-nominated Portrait of a Lady on Fire, the French director’s latest offering, Petite Maman, is a pared back fairytale about grief and familial bonds
Nov 22, 2021
Based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, the Japanese filmmaker’s Drive My Car is a drama filled with secrets, infidelity, and increasingly complex human relationships
Nov 19, 2021
2021’s line-up includes Paul Verhoeven’s nunsploitation shocker Benedetta, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Tilda Swinton-starring Memoria, and Céline Sciamma’s time-travelling fantasy Petite Maman
Sep 16, 2021