The showcase event screens exclusive extracts from each project introduced by their filmmakers to an invited audience of international buyers, UK sales agents and festival programmers.

From The Ice Storm to Inherent Vice: 10 period pieces that capture a nation caught between the aftershocks of the 60s and the dawn of Reagan era.

Shot on the streets of the Italian capital at the end of the Second World War, Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City was made under precarious conditions but created an earthquake in film history with ...

Highlights include filmmakers Jon M. Chu discussing his groundbreaking vision of Oz in the Wicked films, and Rian Johnson on Knives Out and the art of whodunnit.

Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro on reanimating Frankenstein. Inside the issue: A journey to the Zanzibar International Film Festival in the Black Film Bulletin, an interview with The ...

Director Justin Kurzel’s first documentary offers poignant insight into the world of Warren Ellis as it follows the musician to the animal sanctuary he co-founded with activist Femke den Haas.

Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie have fantastic chemistry, but instead of a grand romance, Kogonada’s magic realist road trip is about two lonely people sharing their emotional baggage.

As Billy Elliot turns 25, we revisit an interview with its director Stephen Daldry on the film’s political context, emotional rhythms and expressive physicality. From our October 2000 issue.

Olivier Assayas makes the distracting decision to have half the cast speaking in English accents, but his political drama about Vladimir Putin (Jude Law) and his spin doctor (Paul Dano) shows great ...

Intended to spark conversation in 1940s Britain, this series of posters offers a range of fictional responses to the film’s provocative question about postwar reconciliation: “Would you take Frieda ...

Nadia Fall’s film about two teenage girls fleeing their British seaside town to join ISIS recalls the exuberant portraits of teens in Girlhood (2014) and Rocks (2019), focusing on the girls’ ...

As a new documentary about Warren Ellis arrives in cinemas, we spoke to the veteran composer and Bad Seed about four of his finest scores and a favourite soundtrack he didn’t write.