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Dublin Film Festival 2026: Rebuilding
Introspective and disarming, with nuanced performances, Rebuilding is a wonderfully magnetic piece starring Josh O’Connor and Lily LaTorre…
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Dublin Film Festival 2026: No Ordinary Heist
Intriguing and anxiety-inducing, No Ordinary Heist sets the scene in the crisp, wet winter air of Belfast, recounting…
By Mae Trumata
Berlinale
“I want everybody to have a discussion”: Mohammed Hammad on Safe Exit at Berlin Film Festival 2026
At Berlin Film Festival 2026, we spoke with director and screenwriter Mohammed Hammad about his poignant film, Safe…
By Laura Della Corte
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Dublin Film Festival 2026: Hello Betty
Heartwarming and deeply family-focused, Hello Betty is a beautiful film that revisits the early emergence of the Betty…
By Mae Trumata
Glasgow
Broken English
“Marianne died before we could finish this,” Tilda Swinton states directly into the camera towards the end of…
By Andrew Murray
Glasgow
The Curse
Ever since Sadako crawled out of the TV during the climax of Ringu, curses and dead girls have…
By Andrew Murray
Glasgow
Effi O Blaenau
Adapted from Gary Owen’s one-woman play, Iphigenia in Splott, Marc Evans’s Welsh-language feature Effi O Blaenau centres around…
By Andrew Murray
Glasgow
Psalms of the People
A Gaelic psalm is a traditional form of Scottish song in which a solo voice (the precentor) leads…
By Andrew Murray
Berlinale
“It’s an unusual space for a biopic, and that was interesting to me”: Grant Gee on Everybody Digs Bill Evans at Berlin Film Festival 2026
Despite its genre classification, Everybody Digs Bill Evans could almost be described as an anti-biopic. Instead of being…
By Selina Sondermann
Glasgow
Dead Man’s Wire
In February 1977, disgruntled businessman Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) stormed into the offices of a mortgage company he…
By Andrew Murray