Reviews were middling, but the film picked up a couple of Oscar nominations (including one for Holly Hunter, who had less than six minutes of screen time), and was a roaring success at the box office.

Peter Hastings’s movie incarnation of the popular graphic novel series presents a cheerful whirlwind of goofball gags, silly puns and moments of real poignancy in an endearing, unpolished package.

Set in Connemara, Christopher Andrews’s bloody debut stars Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott as two feuding shepherds caught in a cycle of patriarchal violence.

With Japan’s first full-colour film, Carmen Comes Home, screening around the UK, we dive into the luminous world of Japanese colour filmmaking in the 1950s and early 1960s.

K editions of Throne of Blood and La Haine, Slade in Flame on Blu-ray and a new Flipside are among our titles now available for pre-orders.

UK/Ireland box office generates £979 million, with Wicked the biggest film of 2024 and Back to Black leading the UK independent chart.

The in-person events programme will include Hot Spot sessions with actor and filmmaker Alice Lowe (Timestalker, Prevenge), and theatre and film director Nadia Latif (The Man in My Basement).

On its 65th birthday, we go looking for the locations where Federico Fellini filmed his classic vision of Rome’s high society and beautiful people.

Co-produced by Luca Guadagnino, the new film from the acclaimed director of Beginning will be in UK and Irish cinemas from 25 April.

Erotic thriller Night Stage and road trip movie Dreams in Nightmares both have their UK premieres at the festival.

He made two towering classics of modern cinema and became the vital chronicler of urban malaise in contemporary Taiwan. But where to start with Taiwan New Cinema giant Edward Yang?