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In the Scottish borders, this bold independent film festival champions new ways of seeing, with a 2024 focus on the work of Palestinian artist Noor Abed.

The Ross Brothers create a portrait of youth in revolt in their first fiction film.

Across three timelines, a pair of lovers find each other again and again in Bertrand Bonello's ambitious, genre-defying latest.

Thanks to the efforts of the LUMA Foundation and Jarman's friend James Mackay, a series of shorts produced by the pioneering filmmaker have been restored and screened for the first time in London.

A gothic ghost story, a Tokyo love story and a Bob Hoskins classic are among the highlights headed for new editions this month.

An Iranian judge appointed to Tehran's Revolutionary Court grapples with dissent both at work and at home in Mohammad Rasoulof’s politically charged thriller.

Two sisters share an unshakable bond in Ariane Labed's uniquely strange feature debut.

Noémie Merlant's sophomore feature, co-written by Celine Sciamma, is a riotous black comedy set on the hottest day of the year in Marseilles.

An archetypal good girl meets a boy from the wrong side of the tracks in Gilles Lellouche's sweeping melodrama.

A young enforcer for a Brazilian gangster finds himself hiding out at a sleazy sex hotel in Karim Aïnouz's neo-noir.

Payal Kapadia's first fiction feature is a gorgeous romance, concerning the lives of two contrasting nurses in present-day Mumbai.

Ben Whishaw rises to the occasion of essaying the poet, provocateur and political dissident Eduard Limonov.

A visually ravishing if emotionally and thematically opaque travelogue is the latest from Portuguese maestro, Miguel Gomes.

Oliver Stone's portrait of Brazil's beloved president sadly fails to really capture what it is that makes Lula da Silva such a galvanising political force.

Paolo Sorrentino, Italy's lustiest working filmmaker, spins a tedious yarn about one woman's otherworldly beauty.

A young exotic dancer shacks up with the son of a Russian billionaire, much to the despair of his parents, in Sean Baker's latest down-and-dirty dramedy.

Ali Abbasi's attempted takedown of America's previous (and perhaps next) President of the United States, charting his early years under the mentorship of Roy Cohn, lacks the killer instinct.

The clashing cultures of Canada and Iran are fused in Matthew Rankin’s dryly comic follow-up to The Twentieth Century.

Another lacklustre animated foray into the lasagne-smeared world of Jim Davis’ most famous comic creation.

David Cronenberg’s melancholy exploration of how we retain our connection with the dead makes for one of his most beautiful love stories.

India Donaldson's feature debut is a naturalistic portrait of the tensions between young women and their fathers as a teenager takes a hiking trip with her dad and his best friend.

A fading star signs up for a strange medical procedure in Coralie Fargeat's vacuous attempt at a Hollywood body horror.

A large Italian-American family gather for the holidays in Tyler Taormina's freewheeling festive feature.

A young tennis star refuses to open about an abusive coach in Leonardo Van Dijl’s impressive feature debut.

This ghastly musical melodrama from Jacques Audiard tells of a Mexican cartel bosses’s gender affirming surgery.

The Chinese maestro delivers his greatest film in this cut-and-paste jukebox musical melodrama.

Nicolas Cage stars as a man who comes a cropper of a local surfer gang in Lorcan Finnigan's unsuccessful psychological thriller.

A celebrated documentary filmmaker makes a deathbed confession in Paul Schrader's adaptation of Russell Bank's novel Foregone.

Yorgos Lanthimos returns with another scorcher in this innovative and darkly comic trio of films about spiritual domination.

Ignore the haters – this is the kaleidoscopic, enriching, Wellsian vision of a grand old master with nothing to lose.