uk cinema

Still from Rohan Parashuram Kanawade's 'Cactus Pears'

Beneath the Shade of Your Leaves, I Grow: ‘Cactus Pears’ (2025) by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade

Reviews - Olivia Popp - 9 June 2025

SXSW LONDON / INSIDE OUT 2025: This multi-award winner is a quiet journey into sensorial discovery between a man who goes to the Maharashtra countryside for his father’s funeral and an unwed farmer.

Movement Beyond the Surface: Notes on Shatara Michelle Ford’s ‘Dreams in Nightmares’

Non Classé - Olivia Popp - 7 June 2025

INSIDE OUT 2025: The writer-director’s sophomore feature encourages us to think critically about their characters in space and through the liberatory act of movement.

Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal in Oliver Hermanus' 'The History of Sound'

Sepia, Silence, and Sad Gays: ‘The History of Sound’ (2025) by Oliver Hermanus

Reviews - Emel-Elizabeth Tuulik - 22 May 2025

CANNES 2025: Led by heartthrob favourites Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, the South African director’s new queer drama is disappointingly lukewarm, caught up in its own languorous melancholia.