Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Berlinale Generation at 50: The Crystal Bears are to take centre stage at the Berlinale Palast in 2027 by Neil Baker 1st September 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Sad Girlz (Tribeca Festival) review – Tovar’s Double Berlinale Winner is a stunning reflection of girlhood and trauma by Daisy Grace Greetham 6th June 2026
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ What Will I Become? (BFI Flare) review – a powerful, emotional, heartfelt and urgent exploration of the transmasculine experience by Neil Baker 25th March 2026
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television We Are All Strangers (Berlinale) review – Chen constructs a family portrait that preserves human dignity even as it repeatedly falters by Rino Lu 25th February 2026
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Wolfram (Berlinale) review – Thornton’s film is a powerful and visceral big-screen experience that lacks cohesion by Neil Baker 24th February 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Rose (Berlinale) review – a haunting folk tale where historical and contemporary discussions on gender identity merge by Neil Baker 23rd February 2026
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television River Dreams (Berlinale) review – Mikhailova’s documentary flows with hope in the power of sisterhood and solidarity to usher in change by Neil Baker 22nd February 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Filipiñana (Berlinale) review – Rafael Manuel’s bold debut feature is a sensory adventure in vision and sound by Neil Baker 21st February 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Queen at Sea (Berlinale) review – Hammer’s film is an intimate, haunting and powerful exploration of the complexities of consent by Neil Baker 21st February 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Where To? (Berlinale) review – an assured and poignant exploration of repressed and intergenerational trauma by Neil Baker 20th February 2026
1 Just an Illusion (review) – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age film is a pure delight
2 CATS (review) – The open-air theatre in Regent’s Park becomes the cats’ secret world in this masterful new production
3 The Edinburgh Fringe Award-winning, wickedly funny and unflinching Goblin takes to the stage at the Park Theatre this November
4 Tom Daley adds the final stitch to the giant ‘Baa-Ewe’ Tapestry celebrating Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
5 The Oresteia (review): What Stone brings from Greek tragedy into the present is not the myth but the people
6 Saturday Night Live UK announces Jeff Goldblum as the first host of the new series and the addition of Freddie Meredith to the cast
7 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
8 Her Worm (review) – a deliciously dark, lovingly crafted short film that asks us all to reflect on the real parasites in our midst
9 Blue Film: Elliot Tuttle on his provocative, nuanced, artistically ambitious exploration of trauma, memory, identity and guilt
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