100 Must-See BBC Films

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The British Broadcasting Corporation (the BBC) has been distributing, co-producing and co-financing films since 1990. Over more than three decades it has built a distinctive catalogue of British cinema, supporting emerging talent and established artists alike. From helping launch careers such as Kate Winslet’s to supporting the legacies of icons like Judi Dench and Billy … Read more

Return to Seoul (2022) Review: Davy Chou’s Striking Drama

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Return to Seoul (2022) Director: Davy Chou Screenwriter: Davy Chou Starring: Ji-Min Park, Oh Kwang-rok, Guka Han, Kim Sun-young, Yoann Zimmer, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Hur Ouk-Sook Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul is a carefully observed character study that explores identity, displacement, and the fraught process of reconnecting with one’s origins. Inspired by a personal encounter … Read more

Return to Seoul (2022) Review: A Haunting, Intimate Film

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Return to Seoul (2022) Director: Davy Chou Screenwriter: Davy Chou Starring: Ji-Min Park, Oh Kwang-rok, Guka Han, Kim Sun-young, Yoann Zimmer, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Hur Ouk-Sook When Davy Chou accompanied a close friend to a family meal in South Korea, he witnessed a profound inability to connect between his friend and her biological relatives. The … Read more

Winners (2022) – Edinburgh International Film Festival Review

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Winners (2022) Director: Hassan Nazer Screenwriters: Hassan Nazer, Hamed Emami Starring: Parsa Maghami, Reza Naji, Hossein Abedini What would you do if you stumbled upon an Oscar statue on the street? Keep it, try to sell it, or search for the owner? Winners centers on that simple premise: a young waste picker named Yahya (Parsa … Read more

Winners 2022 – Edinburgh International Film Festival Review

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Winners (2022) Director: Hassan Nazer Screenwriters: Hassan Nazer, Hamed Emami Starring: Parsa Maghami, Reza Naji, Hossein Abedini Imagine finding an Oscar statuette on the street. Do you keep it, hand it in, or try to track down its rightful owner? That moral knot forms the central premise of Winners, a 2022 drama directed by Hassan … Read more

Full Time (2021) Review from Edinburgh Film Festival

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Full Time (2021) Director: Eric Gravel Screenwriter: Eric Gravel Starring: Laure Calamy, Anne Suarez, Geneviève Mnich, Cyril Gueï Eric Gravel’s Full Time premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2021 and has since completed its festival circuit, with one of its later screenings taking place at the 2022 Edinburgh International Film Festival. The film … Read more

Full Time (2021) EIFF Film Review

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Full Time (2021) Director: Eric Gravel Screenwriter: Eric Gravel Starring: Laure Calamy, Anne Suarez, Geneviève Mnich, Cyril Gueï Premiering at the Venice Film Festival in September 2021, Eric Gravel’s acclaimed film Full Time concluded a successful festival run, including a screening at the 2022 Edinburgh International Film Festival. The film presents an intimate, urgent portrait … Read more

Axiom (2022) – Edinburgh International Film Festival Review

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Axiom (2022) Director: Jöns Jönsson Screenwriter: Jöns Jönsson Starring: Moritz von Treuenfels, Thomas Schubert Axiom, the sophomore feature from Swedish writer-director Jöns Jönsson, follows Julius, a charismatic young museum attendant whose small acts and evolving deceptions transform an otherwise ordinary group outing into a quietly unsettling character study. The film unfolds with a deliberate, observant … Read more

Axiom (2022) Review – Edinburgh International Film Festival

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Axiom (2022) Director: Jöns Jönsson Screenwriter: Jöns Jönsson Starring: Moritz von Treuenfels, Thomas Schubert Axiom, the compelling new feature by Swedish filmmaker Jöns Jönsson, follows Julius, a charming and articulate museum attendant who invites colleagues on a sailing trip. The premise is deceptively simple, but Jönsson steadily turns it into a subtle study of deception, … Read more

Cineworld Collapse: How Content Is Reshaping Cinema

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Imagine Manchester United vanished overnight—insolvent, their history erased, video archives sold, Old Trafford left to decay. For more than a century of memories, triumphs and heartbreaks, the club would become a hollow monument. Tens of thousands of supporters who visit that stadium would suddenly have nowhere to go. Local businesses—from cafés and pubs to hotels … Read more