BrainCan - world cinema

i am not a witch review - magical surrealism

Rungano Nyoni’s debut feature,the story of a girl in Zambia accused of witchcraft, is comedian, or...

closed curtain review - dreamlike and deadpan

A screenwriter finds a remote site to work and protect his dog,when his space is invaded, in Jafar...

sweet bean review - japanese foodie movie with an...

Naomi Kawase’s film approximately the redemptive,life-affirming powers of a pancake recipe falls...

tangerines review - engaging, intelligent anti war...

The Oscar-nominated film about Georgian farmers caught up in a bloody civil war finally gets its...

my pure land review - teenage girls wield guns...

A gun-trained female trio resist robbers bent on stealing their home in this Pakistan drama that...

the wave review - disaster, norwegian style

A tsunami devastates a picturesque fjord but it’s the human drama that countsThe idea of a tsunami...

taxi tehran review - jafar panahi s joy ride

Again thumbing his nose at the regime that has banned him,the courageous Iranian director makes his...

tharlo review - serviceable arthouse glimpse of...

Pema Tseden’s monochrome fable approximately an harmless shepherd coming to town is packed with...

the fencer review - touche! swordplay drama is...

Klaus Härö’s tale of a champion fencer on the run from the KGB who winds up teaching...

horse money review - austere work from the samuel...

Portuguese film-maker Pedro Costa makes challenging,uncompromising films, yet his artistry always...

we are the flesh review - welcome to the eroto...

It’s all red filter,hardcore action and impending doom in Emiliano Rocha Minter’s orgiastic...

la famille belier review - feelgood comedy

An award-winning French tale about a teenage girl and her deaf parents is frothy but movingLast...

mathieu amalric: cinema has a way of transforming...

The French star on playing a Bond villain,learning from Spielberg and calling the shots in his...

director yuri bykov: russian viewers get angry...

The Russian film-maker discusses The idiot,his latest study of corruption, moral compromise and the...

the second mother review - master and servant...

The delicate relationship between employer and servant is skilfully subverted and scrutinised in...

pink review - subtle drama that grapples with...

This epic of a shaming campaign against three young Delhi women makes a powerful and progressive...

menashe review - intensely emotional tale of a...

A Yiddish drama set in a Hasidic Jewish community unpicks patriarchal power politics with a powerful...

detective chinatown 2 review - wacky slapstick and...

Detectives from around the world descend on original York’s Chinatown in a wide action-comedy...

embrace of the serpent review - you will be...

Colombian director Ciro Guerra’s transcendent adventure takes us on a dreamlike journey to the...

when the samurai met the cowboy: why japan...

With Scarlett Johansson’s live-action Ghost in the Shell and a unusual version of The Magnificent...

cosmos review - absurdism without the laughs

The last film by Andrzej Żuławski is a characteristically eccentric outing that descends into...

prix jutra awards renamed after grandfather of...

Quebecois Oscars expunge disgraced director over revelations as more victims speak out – one...

suburra review - brash and brutal italian crime...

Gomorrah director Stefano Sollima delivers a terrific mob drama set among Rome’s political and...

embrace of the serpent review - a kurtzian vision...

Ciro Guerra’s gripping monochrome film details the west’s obsession with exploiting indigenous...

film maker sues chinese censors over ban on gay...

Mama Rainbow,approximately Chinese mothers who own learned to embrace their lesbian or gay children,...

rajini murugan review - loafer finds love in tamil...

This long-gestating slice of fun approximately the successes of the world’s least ambitious...

asia pacific floods brisbane with art, cinema and...

A festival featuring 102 movies from 42 countries across the region brought Asian Pacific culture...

tanna review - volcanic south pacific love story...

With its magnetic cast and Venice award-winning cinematography,this film treads the familiar theme...

cake review - karachi sister act ditches melodrama...

Asim Abbasi’s assured debut about a pair of siblings reunited around their father’s sickbed is...

the road to mandalay review - potent migrant drama

This memoir of a young Burmese couple fleeing to Thailand is full of touching detailsThis potent...

under the shadow review - supremely scary horror...

Babak Anvari’s disturbing ghost legend,set in Tehran during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, is a...

chevalier review - middle aged buddy movie gets...

Five men on a fishing trip indulge in a competition to rate each other’s lives in Athina Rachel...

the mafia only kills in summer review - larky...

Written and directed by its star Pierfrancesco Dilberto,this drama about growing up in 1970s Palermo...

mahabharata epic set to become indias most...

Randamoozham,starring veteran actor Mohanlal, will cost Rs 1000-crore (£120m) and is to be funded...

star of morocco sex worker film flees for france...

Actor Loubna Abidar,who played a prostitute in the Cannes hit Much Loved, claims she was ‘received...

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