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Eye for Film

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Eye for FilmUKExpanding the possible by Paul Risker Ana, En Passant Brazilian director Fernanda Salgado's beguiling, animated feature Ana, En Passant, fuses together 2D hand-drawn animation, rotoscopy, collage and stop-motion with real-life footage.

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Eye for FilmUKFlesh And Fuel - Lukasz Al-Darawsheh - 20580 Flesh And Fuel transplants the clichés of tenderqueer cinema to unexpected, truck-driving recipients, Frenchman Étienne (Alexis Manenti) and Poland-born Bartosz (Julian Świeżewski).

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Eye for FilmUKImperium takes top prize at LFF by Amber Wilkinson - 2026-10-19 15:47:06 Imperium took the top prize at LFF Photo: Courtesy of London Film Festival Sergei Loznitsa’s documentary Imperium has been named Best Film in London Film Festival's Official Competition .

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Eye for FilmUKLeopard Spots joins Tallinn Works In Progress by Amber Wilkinson - 2026-10-19 12:45:49 Leopard Spots is directed by Josh Trigg Photo: Courtesy of POFF UK co-production Leopard Spots is among the 16 Works in Progress projects that will feature in Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 's…

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Eye for FilmUKStay-at-Home Seven: October 19 to 25 by Amber Wilkinson, Jennie Kermode Palme d'Or winner Titane Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival Titane , 12.55am, Film4, Tuesday, October 20 As we draw closer to Halloween, genre cinema is starting to walk abroad across the…

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Eye for FilmUKWhat Belongs To Others - Amber Wilkinson - 20579 “I have no interest in other people’s lives,” says a woman as she’s quizzed about her neighbour Kasia (Monika Sabina Kwiatkowska) by the other woman’s landlady.

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Eye for FilmUKI Play Rocky - Paul Risker - 20578 I Play Rocky, directed by Peter Farrelly and written by Peter Gamble, recounts one of cinema's great underdog stories.

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Eye for FilmUKA burning thing by Jennie Kermode Getar Hero Getting off a train in Mumbai, a man (Shashank Arora) wearing an elaborate red and white cowboy costume discovers to his horror that his guitar has been stolen.

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Eye for FilmUKWhat Belongs To Others takes Warsaw Grand Prix by Amber Wilkinson - 2026-10-18 10:18:57 Grzegorz Dębowski, centre, and the What Belongs To Others team Photo: Klaudia Kot/WIFF What Belongs To Others has won the Grand Prix at the 42nd Warsaw International Film Festival.

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Eye for FilmUKDigger - Andrew Robertson - 20577 Digger Rockwell. A titan of industry. A figure of fun? Sharing his name with the aviation firm that gave us the Apollo Command Module and the Hellfire missile, a Christian Socialist splinter from the…

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Eye for FilmUKOne Last Shot - Jennie Kermode - 20576 If James Nunn’s original One Shot movie sometimes resembled a first person shooter, this supposedly final instalment looks like a computer game trying to be a thriller, complete with forest and…

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Eye for FilmUKNothing is impossible by Jennie Kermode Gays Against Guns The movement against gun violence in the US is expansive these days, and multifarious, but still, Paul Rowley’s documentary Gays Against Guns – named after the campaign group it…

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Eye for FilmUKMum, I'm Alien Pregnant - Jennie Kermode - 20575 Mother and adult child relationships, unplanned pregnancy and all the social expectations that go with it are in the spotlight in Thunderlips’ comedic festival hit, the kind of film that Aotearoa/New…

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Eye for FilmUKHope - Andrew Robertson - 20574 Hope Harbor is a small town. Its distance from the big city suggests it's on the North Eastern coast, bound by the sea, a vast swathe of National Park, and the Demilitarized Zone.

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Eye for FilmUKDice-Ching-O-Mat - Boldizsar Forro - 20573 Just like its mashup title, Lithuanian director Kristijonas Vildžiūnas’s latest film is a collage of diverse sensations, genre and cinematic references.

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Eye for FilmUK‘The only thing that makes a story universal is emotions’ by Carla Pantilie, Karolina Zdunek, Elizabete Didza Eliza Subotowicz, Mariusz Włodarski, Grzegorz Dębowski, Sergio Garcia de Leaniz and Anna Bielak Photo: Courtesy of Warsaw Film Festival “Tasteless” and “vanilla” are hardly the words a filmmaker…

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Eye for FilmUKWinter Of The Crow - Donald Munro - 20572 Winter Of The Crow, directed by Kasia Adamik, is an adaptation of the short story Professor Andrews In Warsaw by the Nobel and Booker prize winning author Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk.

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Eye for FilmUKNo Fairy Dust - Nikola Jovic - 20571 Fourteen years after Clip (2012) won her a Tiger Award at Rotterdam International Film Festival, Maja Miloš returns with a sophomore feature that keeps much of the same rawness of her debut.

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Eye for FilmUKThe only thing worth saying by Paul Risker Sophie Okonedo in Clarissa Photo: courtesy of Neon Nigerian sibling directors Chuko and Arie Esiri adapt Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway for their sophomore feature Clarissa.

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Eye for FilmUKEuropean Film Academy shortlist announced by Amber Wilkinson - 2026-10-15 18:49:07 Fjord Photo: Film i Väst The European Film Academy has announced the shortlist of 68 feature-length films vying for a nomination at this year's European Film Awards, which will take place in Athens…

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