Ben Rolph

2 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Ben Rolph

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2 weeks ago | awardswatch.com | Ben Rolph

Director Chie Hayakawa’s sophomore feature, after 2022’s Plan 75, sees her pivot from telling a futuristic story about euthanasia to a past-set coming-of-age tale. Renoir is a gentle, yet sombre tale told from the perspective of a young Japanese girl whose father is suffering from a terminal form of cancer. The Japanese Cannes competition title begins as 11-year-old Fuki (ace newcomer Yui Suzuki) is killed by a mysterious man who strangles her to death.

2 weeks ago | nextbestpicture.com | Ben Rolph

THE STORY – A young aspiring Japanese-British writer visits her Japanese mother outside of London, where she asks for details about her mother’s experiences living in Nagasaki during-and-after the war. THE CAST – Yoh Yoshida, Camilla Aiko, Kouhei Matsushita, Tomokazu Miura, Hirose Suzu & Fumi NikaidoTHE TEAM – Kei Ishikawa (Director/Writer)THE RUNNING TIME – 123 MinutesWorld history is taught very differently in countries around the world.

3 weeks ago | awardswatch.com | Ben Rolph

The grim iron gates of a Soviet prison open up as director Sergei Loznitsa begins his exploration of Soviet state repression, told through the lens of a young graduate-turned-prosecutor with a fierce drive for justice. Two Prosecutors marks Loznitsa’s return to fiction, after 2022’s The Kiev Trial and 2024’s The Invasion, and his third entry in Cannes competition.

Feb 18, 2025 | awardswatch.com | Ben Rolph

Almost every healthcare system worldwide is in crisis, overwhelmed with record demand, underfunding and a lack of staff on shifts. Swiss writer-director Petra Volpe highlights this pressing issue through the lens of a young nurse at a Swiss hospital, where she deals with an endless barrage of irritated and peeved patients seeking attention in a hospital ward staffed by only two nurses. The film opens with nurse Floria Lind (Leonie Benesch) arriving at the surgical ward of a hospital.