German position on Israel-Gaza debate ‘putting artists off’ film festival

Berlinale head, Tricia Tuttle, says some artists fear criticism of Israeli actions will be condemned as antisemitism

Sundance 2025: Olivia Colman, Jennifer Lopez and Josh O’Connor lead lineup

Next year’s Utah-based film festival will see world premieres of much-anticipated new titles also starring Benedict Cumberbatch, A$AP Rocky and Rebecca Hall

Rumours review – close encounters for Cate Blanchett and the magnificent G7

Seven world leaders – including Charles Dance’s dozy US president – are trapped in a forest in this amusing but bizarre apocalyptic comedy

‘What can we do to make this better?’ Alec Baldwin film Rust finally premieres in Poland

First screening for troubled western whose cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot on set takes place at niche film festival, boycotted by high-profile figures over a separate sexism row

Joy review – warm and intensely English portrayal of the birth of IVF

Bill Nighy, James Norton and Thomasin McKenzie form the unlikely trio who doggedly, quietly and courageously made the discovery that would change lives around the world

No Other Land review – an Israeli and Palestinian’s remarkable relationship

When Palestinian villages were bulldozed to make way for the Israeli military, it brought together a film-maker and a journalist from across the divide

Bird review – Andrea Arnold’s untamed Barry Keoghan tale is a curate’s egg

Toads who sweat hallucinogens, lonely pre-teens and a sudden German in a kilt: Arnold’s pick’n’mix latest dives as much as it soars

‘Emotionally resonant’ animation wins top prize at London film festival

Jury names Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail as best film in first for stop-motion feature

Undercover film exposing UK far-right activists pulled from London festival

Film festival organisers make ‘heartbreaking’ decision not to show Undercover: Exposing the Far Right amid concerns over staff welfare

‘Engrossing and mysterious’: the Powell-Pressburger masterpiece that might have been

Lyon’s Lumière festival screened a fascinating footnote to the great duo’s career: Behold a Pale Horse, an adaptation of Emeric Pressburger’s novel by Fred Zinnemann

The Apprentice review – cartoon version of chump-in-chief Donald Trump’s early years

Ali Abbasi’s film presents young Donald as an amoral narcissist, wastes the talent of Jeremy Strong and includes a grisly rape scene that is quickly glossed over

Endurance review – search for Shackleton’s Antarctic wreck overshadowed by history

Shackleton’s truly perilous 1915 ordeal – gussied up with colourised footage and AI voices – minimises the stakes of a 2022 hunt for its remains by Dan Snow and friends

Dance Umbrella: Mamela Nyamza: Hatched Ensemble; The Featherstonehaughs Draw on the Sketchbooks of Egon Schiele – review

This year’s festival opens with a formally rigorous work from the South African choreographer and a film premiere from Lea Anderson

Superboys of Malegaon review – boisterous heartwarmer about movie-loving underdogs

Inspired by a true story, this feelgood Indian film is about some Bollywood superfans making their own movies with a cheeky but admirable DIY ethos

A Traveler’s Needs review – Isabelle Huppert hypnotises in cool Korean comedy of manners

Huppert plays Iris, a modestly dressed French woman living in Korea who gives French lessons according to a strange procedure of her own that does not seem to involve speaking French