Eagles of the Republic – Manchester Film Festival 2026
The country’s most loved actor is pressured into taking on a role he doesn’t want to – as the (stillContinue Reading
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The Stranger – Manchester Film Festival 2026
Indifference, colonialism, a murder trial, and a lot of sunshine in François Ozon’s black and white adaptation of Albert Camus’Continue Reading
Sophia – Manchester Film Festival 2026
A little girl goes missing in Tunisia on a visit with her mother to meet her estranged father. Sophia is a tenseContinue Reading
The Fence (Le Cri des Gardes) – Manchester Film Festival 2026
An English language film from French legend Claire Denis, who visits Africa again for a tense standoff between a localContinue Reading
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) – Manchester Film Festival 2026
Teenager Rico is struggling to make a living, and transitioning into fatherhood is not as easy as he imagines. Mad BillsContinue Reading
The Last Viking – Manchester Film Festival 2026
Darkly humorous and absurd, the latest from Andres Thomas Jensen and his ensemble also has a human side. The Last Viking playsContinue Reading
The End – Manchester Film Festival 2025
Fittingly drawing a close to Marie’s coverage from Manchester Film Festival 2025, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End sees a family of apocalypse survivorsContinue Reading
Transplant – Machester Film Festival 2025
Surgeon-in-training grasps the opportunity of a lifetime to learn from one of the most renowned surgeons in the country –Continue Reading
Cloud – Manchester Film Festival 2025
A young man with a side hustle in online reselling finds himself at the mercy of a disgruntled customer inContinue Reading
Aontas – Manchester Film Festival 2025
A reverse-chronology heist movie in the Irish language, Aontas is more a tale of personal tragedy than a thriller. But it’s worthContinue Reading