Director – Marie Amachoukeli – Co-Director (Animation) – Pierre Emmanuel-Lyet – 2023 – France – Cert. 12a – 84m Live Action **** / Animation ***** After her beloved nanny returns to Cape Verde, six-year-old Cléo visits her for the Summer – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th and on BFI Player from Monday, […]
Good Stewardship Wilding Directed by David Allen Certificate PG, 75 minutes Released 14 June After they inherited the Knepp farm in West Sussex from his parents in the early 1980s, Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree (Lady Burrell) kept it going for some 17 years until the late 1990s, when they were one and a half […]
Director – Matteo Garrone – 2023 – Italy – Cert. 12a – 121m ***** Two teenage Senegalese boys set out on a journey to Europe and a better life – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 5th Garrone’s earlier features (Gomorrah, 2008; Tale of Tales, 2015; Dogman, 2018; Pinocchio, 2019) have a particular, muted […]
Directors – Sarah Beddington, Susan Simnett – 2021 – UK – Cert. U – 84m ***1/2 A friendship between British artist Sarah and Palestinian refugee Fadia sparks the former into a search for a tree in the latter’s village to which she is currently unable to return – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August […]
Director – Yang Yong-hi – 2005 – Japan – 107m **** The return of a Japanese-Korean woman’s brothers to North Korea, encouraged by her parents, causes her considerable grief over the years – online in the UK as part of Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF) from Monday, January 17th to Sunday, February 6th, 2022. […]