FILMS OUT THIS WEEK
Three nuns and a bereaved boy go on an adventure this week in Holy Days, a bereaved girl goes to stay with her island-dwelling grandmother in The Summer Book, and a woman battles a homophobic attempt to take her son from her in Love Me Tender - read what director Anna Cazenave Cambet told us about it. A suburban neighbourhood undergoes a cosmic event in The End Of Oak Street, a filmmaker explores life as a jackal in Bouchra - we interviewed directors Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani - and Spike Lee adapts David Byrne’s American Utopia for the screen. Plus there are big screen re-releases for Taika Waititi comedy Hunt For The Wilderpeople, animated mouse movie Flushed Away and swashbuckling claymation romp The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists.
In addition to the above, we have a great selection of streaming suggestions in our Stay-at-Home Seven, and there's more to explore in our Eye for books column and podcast.
DVD/STREAMING HIGHLIGHTS
Hunt For The Wilderpeople : 10th anniversary edition
Blu-Ray Review
Lesbian Space Princess
Streaming now on VoD
FESTIVALS
We're bringing you all the latest from the Edinburgh International Film Festival, where Sea Of Glass is screening, as well as the Locarno Film Festival.
We still have reviews coming in from the Fantasia International Film Festival, and we're looking forward to Frightfest.
Coming of age in a conflict zone Skintown director on The Troubles, male friendship and winning Sean Connery Prize
Behind Dern’s ‘late-life masterpiece’ Northbound director on the ultimate actor’s actor, mortality and a sentimental journey
Hitting the road to find a creative voice Borges And Me director on a literary odd couple, inspiration and coping with midges
Veterans learning new tricks Courtenay and Calder-Marshall on intimacy, trust and the value of friendship in Queen At Sea
The people's medium Theodore Schaefer on The Arrow At Rest At Every Instant Of Its Flight
We're looking forward to Frightfest, the Viennale, Fantastic Fest and San Sebastian.
We've recently brought you coverage of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Locarno Film Festival, the Fantasia International Film Festival, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the Muslim International Film Festival, Docs Ireland, Sheffield DocFest and ImagineNative.
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It's a busy time for festivals and here's the latest:
Sarajevo Woody Harrelson awarded Heart of Sarajevo after lively masterclass
EIFF Gets back its mojo
Locarno Isabella Rossellini receives Excellence Award
London Jesse Eisenberg's The Debut to close festival
San Sebastian announces José Giovanni retrospective
