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Olivia: Mysterious debut about a missing butcher presents a bold new voice in Argentinian cinema
A young Argentinian woman searches the for her father in a defiantly introspective film from Sofía Petersen that looks like nothing else in the cinematic landscape.
By Travis Jeppesen
Romería: reality and fantasy intertwine in this ethereal drama about buried family histories
By Sophia Satchell-Baeza
Hokum: Damian McCarthy’s horror finds a human story amid all the creepy grotesquerie
By Anton Bitel
Inside the Archive #68: Reflections on archiving asexuality
By Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford
Surviving Earth: Slavko Sobin is a beguiling presence in this well-crafted debut
By John Bleasdale
Wild Foxes: the body keeps the score in this affecting drama about an injured young boxer
By Jason Anderson
“A story marshalled with dazzling skill and precision”: All the President’s Men reviewed in 1976
By Richard Combs
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Writer-director Thea Gajić visits BFI Southbank to discuss Surviving Earth, her drama about a Yugoslavian refugee forging a new life in Bristol while battling addiction, joined by cast members Slavko Sobin and Olive Gray.
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