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7850 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 17/06/2025. 778 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Small Body by Laura Samani

10/07/2021

CANNES 2021: Laura Samani’s debut film is a story about women in north-east Italy at the beginning of the 20th century who rebel against the dominant culture and hold on to hope  

Piccolo corpo

Piccolo corpo

Small Country: An African Childhood by Eric Barbier

27/08/2020

Éric Barbier successfully and faithfully adapts Gaël Faye’s excellent novel, about the Rwandan genocide seen through the eyes of a mixed race child from neighbouring Burundi  

Petit Pays

Petit Pays

Small Homeland by Alessandro Rossetto

30/08/2013

The first fiction feature length film by documentary filmmaker Alessandro Rossetto is set in Triveneto: a cultural reality that goes from being local to universal  

Piccola Patria

Piccola Patria

Small, Slow But Steady by Shô Miyake

14/02/2022

BERLINALE 2022: In co-production with France, Japan’s Shô Miyake carves out a seemingly modest yet subtle and masterful movie about a young, deaf female boxer with a big heart  

Keiko, me wo sumasete

Keiko, me wo sumasete

Small Things Like These by Tim Mielants

15/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Based on Claire Keegan’s book of the same name, the third feature by Belgian director Tim Mielants is a portrait of a small town troubled by indifference  

Small Things Like These

Small Things Like These

Small-town Boys by Gaël Lepingle

08/07/2022

Gaël Lépingle spins a diffracted and atmospheric three-part tale about the solitude experienced by gay youngsters during the long, slow days spent in communities deep in the provinces  

Des Garçons de province

Des Garçons de province

Smaragda - I Got Thick Skin and I Can't Jump by Emilios Avraam

19/11/2024

Emilios Avraam’s debut feature centres on a quirky character but struggles to commit to taking a clear direction  

Σμαράγδα

Σμαράγδα

Smell of Burnt Milk by Justine Bauer

18/03/2025

Justine Bauer’s film, which scooped an award at the Mons Love International Film Festival, is a look at German rural life, encompassing matriarchy and the cyclical nature of time  

Milch ins Feuer

Milch ins Feuer

Smile by Steffen Köhn

15/07/2019

Steffen Köhn's debut feature is an ambitious project in theory, but the final result is a chaotic potpourri full of clichés  

Smile

Smile

Smiling Georgia by Luka Beradze

07/07/2023

In his debut feature, Luka Beradze takes a surreal and darkly funny story as the starting point for a moving portrait of bitterness and alienation in the Georgian countryside  

Gimiliani Sakartvelo

Gimiliani Sakartvelo

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