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Film website. From blockbusters to brand new short films & festivals to world cinema. Find us on Twitter @EyeForFilm, Mastodon at universeodon.com/@EyeForFilm - or like us on Facebook facebook.com/Eye4Film Visit www.eyeforfilm.com

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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 4h
"Where the original fairy tale draws a stark divide between the royal class and everyone outside it, in No Fairy Dust low culture becomes the ultimate leveller, permeating society top to bottom" www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/no-fa... #FilmSky🎬
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No Fairy Dust (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
A retelling of the Cinderella story on the margins of modern day Serbia.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 5h
In Dice-Ching-O-Mat "Science fiction acts mostly as a prosthetic, reduced to a stylised metaphor of psychological limitations." www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/dice-... #WFF2026 #PÖFF30 #FilmSky🎬
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Dice-Ching-O-Mat (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
A middle-aged sinologist from Latvia goes out to save his family through the doors of a charming Soviet elevator.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 5h
A Quiet Man offers an "unashamedly flattering ode to the great businessman" Romain Zaleski www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/a-qui... #WFF2026 #FilmSky🎬
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A Quiet Man (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
A documentary about the life of billionaire Romain Zaleski.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 5h
Documentary Forever Is Now tracks the last 18 months of Irish Greens politician Eamon Ryan's political career www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/forev... #filmsky 🎬🌍
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Forever Is Now (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
Set between 2023 and 2025, this documentary follows Irish Green Party leader and Cabinet Minister Eamon Ryan during his final 18 months in government. Once buoyed by Europe’s Green wave, Ryan now…
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 10h
A detective looking for a missing girl finds her rationality under assault in a region known for black magic, in Frost (aka Mraz) www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/frost... #Sitges2026 #filmsky 🎬
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Frost (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
A rational, emotionally distant female police detective investigates the disappearance of a girl in a region famous for black magic and pagan heritage. Her investigation gradually becomes a journey…
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 11h
‘The only thing that makes a story universal is emotions’ Warsaw’s Industry panel discuss reaching audiences abroad www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #WFF2026 #FilmSky🎬
Industry panel talking in Warsaw
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 12h
A young man tries to renegotiate his place in a troubled family which is preparing for harsh weather in the Colorado mountains in A Long Winter www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/a-lon... #LFF2026 #filmsky 🎬
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A Long Winter (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
Returning to his childhood home deep in the mountains, Mike is drawn back into the quiet rituals of family life as the clan prepares for the winter ahead.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 23h
"We’re just trying to be as sincere as we can be & tell those stories we know & try to bring other people into our space, in the hope or rather, with the faith that they will feel something" - Chuko and Arie Esiri on Mrs Dalloway and making Clarissa www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #filmsky 🎬📖
A still from the film Clarissa. An elegant middle-aged Black woman stands in the gap where a full length panelled window has been opened between a dark room and a bright garden. Two other figures and a river with urban buildings beyond it are reflected in the window.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
European Film Academy announces shortlist of 68 feature films vying for nomination www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2026-10... #EFA
Fjord - this still shows a family posing for a photo - is among the shortlisted films
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everybody likes her better as a chair, in By Design www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/by-de... #filmsky 🎬🪑
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By Design (2025) - Film Review - Eye For Film
A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Finally for today from the Critics Project, Carla Pantile reviews Goodbye Cruel World which tackles "a difficult and sensitive subject with tenderness, humour and sprinkles of hope" www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/goodb... Read more about Carla www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/writer/Carla... #WFF2026 #FilmSky🎬
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Goodbye Cruel World (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
Otto Vidal, 14, disappears after writing a farewell letter to his classmates. While everyone believes he is dead, Léna, a girl from his high school, spots him one night roaming the streets of the…
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Also from the Warsaw Critics Project, Karolina Zdunek notes "Even the presence of a sauna does little to raise The Bog's temperature" www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-b... - read more about Karolina here www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/writer/Karol... #WFF2026 #FilmSky🎬
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The Bog (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
A small-town detective reopens a decades-old murder case after a boy’s body is found in a Latvian bog, confronting memories and secrets no one wants to unearth.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"De Givry’s love of ambiguity often approaches the danger zone of unwillingness to commit" in Goodbye Cruel World www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/goodb... - another review from Warsaw Film Festival's FIPRESCI critics project. Read about Lukasz here www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/writer/Lukas... #WFF2026 #FilmSky🎬
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Goodbye Cruel World (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
Otto Vidal, 14, disappears after writing a farewell letter to his classmates. While everyone believes he is dead, Léna, a girl from his high school, spots him one night roaming the streets of the…
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Martina Buchelová and her cast on young romance and its complications in Lover, Not A Fighter www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #WFF2026 #FilmSky🎬
Lover, Not a Fighter stillthe director
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A former one-hit-wonder Eighties pop star from England is thrilled when he's invited to Belfast to put on a show, but there's a lot he doesn't understand in short BAFTA contender turned Oscar hopeful Nostalgie www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/nosta... #filmsky 🎬
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Nostalgie (2025) - Film Review - Eye For Film
A washed-up Eighties one-hit-wonder turned IT entrepreneur is stunned when a Belfast club invites him to perform at its centenary celebration.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces Baltic Competition, Critics' Picks and Rebels With A Cause titles www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2026-10... #PÖFF30
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Eye For Film: Tallinn announces Baltic Film Competition line-up
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In Everest: The Other Side "while there are undeniably parts built for the big screen spectacle, which are juxtaposed with an emotional weight, the film's rudimentary form is the enemy within" www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/evere... #LFF2026 #LFF #FilmSky🎬
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Everest: The Other Side (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
Follows two mountaineers as they attempt to climb and ski the direct North Face of Mount Everest.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In Forastera "Aleñar Iglesias... presents the ordinary world as loaded with meaning" www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/foras... #FilmSky🎬
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Forastera (2025) - Film Review - Eye For Film
During her Mallorca summer, Antonia recognises similarities with her late grandma. She develops an influence over her mourning grandpa through dress-up, blurring who inhabits who.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
After suffering a head injury and waking up with a foreign accent, a Canadian woman is persuaded to pretend that she's Bosnian, in Foreign Tongue www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/forei... #filmsky 🎬
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Foreign Tongue (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
After suffering a head injury and waking up with a foreign accent, a Canadian woman is persuaded to pretend that she's Bosnian, but everything becomes more complicated when she falls in love.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Finally, from the Critics Workshop for today, Elizabete Didza also takes a look at Lover, Not A Fighter, noting "Growing up looks messy here, but being lost together offers its own comfort." eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/lover... - read more about Elizabete here eyeforfilm.co.uk/writer/Eliza... #WFF2026
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Lover, Not A Fighter (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
The troubled young adult Andrej tries to get things back on track in his life. But love always turns things upside down.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Also from the Critics Workshop, Boldizsar Forro takes a look at the "wry yet charming" Lover, Not A Fighter www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/lover... #WFF2026 - read more about Boldizsar here www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/writer/Boldi...
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Lover, Not A Fighter (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
The troubled young adult Andrej tries to get things back on track in his life. But love always turns things upside down.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
First up, Lehel Fazakas takes a look at Low Expectations www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/low-e... #WFF2026 - read more about Lehel here www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/writer/Lehel...
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Low Expectations (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
A successful young artist's career derails, forcing her back to her hometown. While teaching high school to make ends meet, she navigates depression and rediscovers herself in unexpected ways.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
We're really happy to be back at Warsaw Film Festival this week showcasing the work from the FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project. Look out for the reviews from this year's participants in the coming days...
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
'It’s really being part of stories, that raise questions, shake things up, and challenge the status quo' - Léa Drucker chats to us about Case 137, A Woman's Life and more www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #FilmSky🎬
Lea Drucker and Jonathan Turnbull in Cae 137Lea Drucker ('photo Marie Rouge for uniFrance)
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Breaking Bad and The Oak Room star RJ Mitte has been found dead at the age of just 34 www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2026-10... #filmsky #TVsky 🎬📺
A still from the film The Oak Room. A close-up of a young white man in a bar.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
UK readers can check out the best films to be found on TV this week in our Stay-at-Home Seven www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #filmsky #tvsky 🎬📺
A still from the film North By Northwest. A white man in a 1950s suit runs away from a crop dusting plane across a flat field.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Heathcliff refuses to fade out of the narrative in this year's second take on the work of Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights: House Of The Damned www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/wuthe... #filmsky 🎬📖
A still from the film Wuthering Heights: House Of The Damned. A close up of a white woman with long dark hair pulling a bearded man of Indian appearance towards her.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"You must be strong if you want to hold onto your vision and you have to believe in it" - Avelina Prat on The Portuguese House www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #filmsky 🎬
A still from the film The Portuguese House. Six people stand beside the steps that lead up to the entrance of a white villa with a roof made of curved red tiles.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Eisenberg’s obvious love of amateur dramatics provides The Debut with a foundation that feels akin to a warm hug" - we take a look at the London Film Festival's closing film www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-d... #LFF #74SSIFF #LFF2026 #FilmSky🎬
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The Debut (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
A shy housewife is unexpectedly cast in a local am-dram original musical. Under the spell of the strong-willed and enigmatic director, she loses herself in the role.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning has won Best Film in Dinard. Read our full report on this year's awards www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2026-10... #filmsky 🎬
The filmmaker Clio Barnard. A white woman with short, tousled brown hair, tortoise-shell framed glasses, a cream jacket and a brightly coloured scarf holds a microphone.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"When we came up with the idea and we decided that Barkhad had to be Magan, we wrote it specifically for him" - Dana White and Christopher Knoblock on Oscar-qualified short Magan’s Fare www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #filmsky 🎬
A still from the film Magan's Fare. An older Cambodian woman and a Somalian man sit side by side in a pew in an otherwise empty church. The woman has her hands pressed together in prayer.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Seeking to learn more about the mother who died giving birth to her, a woman uncovers a shocking secret, in Posthumous www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/posth... #FantasticFest #filmsky 🎬
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Posthumous (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
A young woman returns home to her estranged father, seeking comfort from a series of VHS birthday recordings left behind by her deceased mother, and uncovers an occult ritual that upends everything…
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Tender Loving Care is all about the little bits of conversation that make the world a bit more comfy for others" - www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/tende... #LFF #LFF2026 #74SSIFF #FilmSky🎬
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Tender Loving Care (2026) - Film Review - Eye For Film
In contemporary London, social workers Amy and Rosie navigate the stressors and joys of life together, be that work, family or messy dating lives.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"When I started to think about it, the soundscape music came in on one side and the Elfi’s book and the poetry came on the other side and then everything flowed" - we chat to Yeşim Ustaoğlu about What Remains (Artakalan) www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #FilmSky🎬#74SSIFF
A woman looking contemplative Yeşim Ustaoğlu in San Sebastian
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Dinard Festival of British and Irish Film has begun its 37th edition, but faces financial uncertainties www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2026-10... #filmsky 🎬
A white man in a pale grey pinstripe suit and two white men and two white women all wearing black walk along a red carpet in the middle of a city.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There are horror treats in store in new anthology V/H/S Mixtape, presented by GWAR, featured at #BeyondFest, and now coming out on Shudder www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/vhsmi... #filmsky 🎬
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V/H/S/Mixtape - Film Review - Eye For Film
This anthology where music and sound become the source of terror.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"I wanted to create a film authentically showing madness & anguish & some of the things I've been through. It's not an autobiographical film but there's some autobiographical elements," Billy Lumby & his cast on mental health & Florid #LFF2026 #74SSIFF www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #FilmSky🎬
Still of Jonathan Jules in Florid. It shows a Black man whose face is blurred because it's in motionBilly Lumby in a baseball cap with the word icon on it spelled back to frontSaskia Chana in San SebastianJonathan Jules in San Sebastian
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"In Florid lear-sighted perspective, coupled with carefully calibrated sound design from Dario Swade, doesn’t make light of what Jamal experiences, but nor does it sensationalise them" www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/flori... #LFF2026 #LFF #74SSIFF #FilmSky🎬
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Florid - Film Review - Eye For Film
A young man in supported housing tries to juggle his musical aspirations and mental health issues.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Heavy metal vampires take on a town full of monsters in the warmed-over slop that is Devour www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/devou... #filmsky 🎬
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Devour - Film Review - Eye For Film
Stranded after a disastrous gig, an all-female heavy metal band finds a woman in danger in a town ruled by a warlock, and crawling with cannibals, vampires, and a deadly werewolf, forcing them to figh...
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"We turn to our right and we see this man, and he's just covered in this paraphernalia that's anti-extraterrestrial" Brad Abrahams and Simon Ennis discuss encounters with conspiracy theorists and Gimme Truth www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #FantasticFest #filmsky 🎬
A still from the film Gimme Truth. A light-skinned bald man in elaborate blue robes sits in the lotus position against a backdrop of sunny red rocks.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tallinn Black Nights announces Official and First Feature titles - including films from UK and Ireland www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2026-10... #PÖFF30 #FilmSky 🎬
An Elvis impersonator with his back to camera in One Sweet Hour
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
On The Waterfront Oscar-winner Eva Marie Saint has died at 102 www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2026-10...
Eva Marie Saint with Marlon Brando in On The Waterfront
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
London Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, so we're looking ahead to some of the highlights www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #LFF2026 #LFF #FilmSky🎬
Clockwise from top left: Filipiñana, Julian, Fatherland and I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A teenager alone for four years after a devastating plague has one last go at attracting trick or treaters to her Halloween haunted house, only to find herself in danger when she succeeds, in Hallowarrior www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/hallo... #BeyondFest #filmsky 🎬🎃
A still from the film Hallowarrior. An androynous white teenager with a shock of bright red hair stands in a darkened room. She is wearing a black jumper with pumpkins on it, and has bright orange triangles drawn around her eyes on her transparent full face breathing mask.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As the world is slowly ending, a woman dating a locksmith finds a wooden door in the side of her body in Little Doors www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/littl... #FantasticFest #filmsky 🎬
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Little Doors - Film Review - Eye For Film
Two socially awkward people find love and then define it for themselves in a barren, post-apocalyptic world before they discover a small, wooden door in the side of her body and decide whether or not ...
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's Monday, so it's time for our weekly Stay-at-Home Seven round-up of films to catch on telly, some classics old and new this week www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #FilmSky🎬📺 #StayAtHome7
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Harry Lime in The Third Man
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Dark Gets In parodies the true crime documentary format to tell a sinister story about a missing girl www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-d... #BeyondFest #filmsky 🎬
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The Dark Gets In - Film Review - Eye For Film
When a documentary team set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young girl, events soon take an unexpected turn, leading the filmmakers down an increasingly dark and horrifying path.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"You turn up and you expect to see [actors] doing their thing, whatever that thing is. Mine's probably hitting them over the head with a stick and shouting, so it's lovely to do something gentle" - Steve Oram on his role in Crushed www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #filmsky 🎬
A still from the film Crushed. A middle-aged white vicar stands in a church pulpit. He has thinning, greying red hair and beard, a red patterned waistcoat and his glasses on a ribbon round his neck.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The way Zischler and Hüller play their relationship is so wonderfully real and subtle and appropriately opaque for all us non-Mann family members, that it at times brought tears to my eyes" - we review Fatherland, playing at #NYFF64 tonight www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/fathe... #74SSIFF #LFF2026
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Fatherland - Film Review - Eye For Film
Drama focusing on Thomas Mann's post-war life, as he and his daughter embark on a road-trip across Germany.
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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'People tend to easily forget the value of love, so I wanted to address that' - Yoon Dan-bi chats to us about young love and adolescence in San Sebastian New Directors Special Mention Winner The World Before www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #74SSIFF #FilmSky🎬
Yoon Dan-bi in San SebastianA young woman clutches a shirt looking pensively out of a window in The World Before
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