World cinema
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All We Imagine As Light review – dreamlike and gentle modern Mumbai tale is a triumph
Cannes film festivalPayal Kapadia’s glorious Cannes competition selection is an absorbing story of three nurse…
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Joyland review – subtle trans drama from Pakistan is remarkable debut
Saim Sadiq’s film explores the unsettled social and sexual identities of a widower and his children with delic…
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Wrestling tigers and hurling motorcycles: how SS Rajamouli’s RRR cast a spell over the world
The Indian director was as surprised as anyone that his astonishingly larger than life, logic-defying action f…
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The Big City review – Satyajit Ray’s miraculous look at a new world of possibility
The struggles and triumphs of a 1950s Kolkata family whose highest earner is a woman is told with marvellous l…
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Indian actor Puneeth Rajkumar dies aged 46 after heart attack
Narendra Modi joins in mourning for much-loved star of southern Indian cinemaPuneeth Rajkumar, a leading star …
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Sherni review – Vidya Balan joins the hunt for a man-eating tiger
Balan excels as a resolute forest officer battling sexism and corruption, as well as nature, in the latest sat…
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Salaam Bombay! review – still fiercely unsentimental and throbbing with energy
The re-release of Mira Nair’s unflinching 1988 story of street children, prostitutes and drug dealers shows it…
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Young film-maker finds love and laughter amid the tragedy in Afghanistan’s first romcom
Movie about an affair between a woman and an older man aims to challenge stereotype of Afghan women as weak an…
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Sing Me a Song review – sombre Bhutanese internet love story
French documentarian Thomas Balmès checks in with the Himalayan monk he filmed back in 2013 to find him addict…
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The Disciple review – Indian classical musician sings a lonely tune
Years of adherence to stringent rules leave a performer at odds with modern society in this melancholy film fr…
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Gulabo Sitabo review – mildewed mansion drama bustles and crumbles
Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana star in Shoojit Sircar’s puzzling tale of class and property managemen…
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Kashmir human rights film divides UK’s Indian and Pakistani communities
Ahvin Kumar, director of No Fathers in Kashmir, says it shows the plight of families and people in Britain mus…
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Darkness Visible review – mystery and murder on the streets of Kolkata
A son hunts for his mother after her unexplained return to her home town in this intriguingly inventive horror…