AWARDS
Loveless triumphs at London16/10/2017 - Andrey Zvyagintsev’s film won the official competition, while John Trengove’s The Wound took home the Sutherland Award for Best First FilmCOMPETITION
The Breadwinner
Nora Twomey
The Breadwinner : Girl becomes boy in a fight for survival09/10/2017 - Irish animation company Cartoon Saloon (Song of the Sea) presents its new feature by Nora Twomey, which focuses on the journey of a little girl in AfghanistanWajib
Annemarie Jacir
Wajib : A father and sons’ reunion and journey through Nazareth09/08/2017 - LOCARNO 2017: Annemarie Jacir's third film shows a journey that goes far beyond the clear-cut title of the film, all the while respecting the power of the rule of three: time, action and placeLoveless
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Loveless : The hammer and the anvil18/05/2017 - CANNES 2017: Andrey Zvyagintsev has made a brilliant, unforgiving and brutally dark film centring on a child caught in the prevailing headlights of hatredLean on Pete
Andrew Haigh
Lean on Pete : Beating a dead horse02/09/2017 - VENICE 2017: British director Andrew Haigh's latest is an adaptation of a novel by singer and author Willy Vlautin and something of a departure from his previous workThe Guardians
Xavier Beauvois
The Guardians : A feminist WWI war film18/09/2017 - TORONTO 2017: French auteur Xavier Beauvois delivers a low-key drama on the impacts of WWI on the women who were left behind, dominated by rising star Iris Bry’s performance
Xavier Beauvois • Director09/09/2017 - TORONTO 2017: In conversation with French filmmaker Xavier Beauvois about his new film The Guardians, world-premiering at TorontoGood Manners
Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra
Good Manners , an existentialist genre film08/08/2017 - LOCARNO 2017: Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s film, presented in Competition at Locarno, plays with genres and references, giving us a film like no otherAngels Wear White
Robin Campillo
Angels Wear White : Female trouble08/09/2017 - VENICE 2017: Writer-director-producer Vivian Qu comes back to the Venice Film Festival with a brutally honest, if uneven, second feature
Vivian Qu • Director09/09/2017 - VENICE 2017: In Angels Wear White, Vivian Qu, the only female director in the main competition at Venice, lifts the lid on society’s dirty secrets


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