Nikki Baughan

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Australian co-pro tracks a lethal winter migration  Dir: Kasimir Burgess. Australia/Mongolia. 2025. 89mins Last year, Mongolia suffered a severe ‘iron winter’, bringing extreme cold, heavy snow and thick ice. For the country’s traditional herders it proved catastrophic, with over seven million animals killed and thousands of people impoverished and displaced.

1 month ago | screendaily.com | Nikki Baughan

Projects written by Estonian Smoke Sauna Sisterhood filmmaker Anna Hints and Mounia Akl, the Lebanese director of Costa Brava Lebanon, are among the 16 selected by Italy’s TorinoFilmLab (TFL) for the 2025 edition of ScriptLab, the programme that supports fiction features through early stages of development.

1 month ago | screendaily.com | Nikki Baughan

2006 Navy SEAL mission starring Cosmo Jarvis and Will Poulter is relayed in real time  Dirs: Ray Mendoza, Alex Garland. US/UK. 2025. 95mins This visceral, immersive real-time retelling of a 2006 Navy SEAL Iraq surveillance mission gone horribly wrong is as raw and direct as its title suggests.

1 month ago | screendaily.com | Nikki Baughan

Jaume Collett-Serra directs the latest chiller from the genre powerhouse Dir: Jaume Collett-Serra. US. 2025. 88mins An isolated farmhouse in rural Georgia becomes a battleground for a grieving mother and her two children in this familiar, intermittently effective horror. A raw central performance from Danielle Deadwyler brings some depth to this Blumhouse thriller, which otherwise maintains a creepy atmosphere but mostly trades in familiar psychological horror tropes and an abundance of jump scares.

2 months ago | screendaily.com | Nikki Baughan

Drama explores the Welsh actor’s journey from the valleys to stardom Source: Icon Film Distribution Dir: Marc Evans. UK. 2025. 124mins The true story of the teacher who inspired and encouraged the metamorphosis of Welsh schoolboy Richard Jenkins into Hollywood acting legend Richard Burton follows the usual contours of such films — a heartwarming story of triumph against adversity, glossy production values and a rousing score.