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NYFF 63 2025 OFFICIAL SELECTION QUINZAinE DES CINÉASTES Société des réalisateurs de films CANNES BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTION 2025 "NO-ONE, ABSOLUTELY NO-ONE IS DOING IT LIKE PETZOLD MELLIFLUOUS, MELODIOUS AND MYSTERIOUS IN EQUAL MEASURE" David Jenkins, Little White Lies "AN UTTERLY EXTRAORDINARY GIFT" Anne-Katrin Titze Eye for Film "PAULA BEER'S PERFORMANCE IS ANOTHER SHIMMERING WONDER" Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire PAULA BEER BARBARA AUER MATTHIAS BRANDT ENNO TREBS MIROIRS NO.3 A FILM BY CHRISTIAN PETZOLD IN CINEMAS APRIL 17th new wave films german films www.newwavefilms.co.uk
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CONTENTS AKIRA Released in the West just as Japan's 1980s boom was hitting the skids, Otomo Katsuhiro's cyberpunk sensation brought a first taste of anime's cinematic scale and potency, as well as its apocalyptic leanings. As it returns to UK cinemas 38 years on, can it speak to our 21st-century condition? By Roger Luckhurst 40 30 MARK JENKIN Cornish auteur Mark Jenkin returns with Rose of Nevada, in which two fishermen slip through time's net to a more hopeful past. He talks to Mike Williams about embracing his identity, the joy of analogue filmmaking and the influence of Jaws and Jeanne Dielman 50 D IS FOR DISTANCE Chris Petit and Emma Matthews' film turns a heartrending account of their son Louis's drug-resistant epilepsy into a richly illustrated contemplation of inner landscapes. The trio tell Jason Wood about turning their medical anguish into cinematic wonder 56 AT THE MOVIES WITH RAOUL PECK As his doc Orwell: 2+2=5 plays in UK cinemas, the I Haitian filmmaker talks to Nick Bradshaw about white cinema, bonding with Krzysztof Kieślowski and Agnieszka Holland, and great artistry in movies today 46 QUENTIN TARANTINO ON THE RIP Writing exclusively for Sight and Sound, the director sings the praises of Joe Carnahan's thriller The Rip, which puts the heat on Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's cops in a cartel stash house and shows that Hollywood can still make em like it did in the 70s glory days AKIRA IMAGE: 1988 MASH ROOM AKIRA COMMITTEE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. QUENTIN TARANTINO PORTRAIT BY JULIAN UNGANO IN THIS ISSUE

NYFF 63 2025 OFFICIAL SELECTION

CANNES

BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTION 2025

"NO-ONE, ABSOLUTELY NO-ONE IS DOING IT LIKE PETZOLD MELLIFLUOUS, MELODIOUS AND MYSTERIOUS IN EQUAL MEASURE"

David Jenkins, Little White Lies

"AN UTTERLY EXTRAORDINARY GIFT" Anne-Katrin Titze Eye for Film

"PAULA BEER'S PERFORMANCE IS ANOTHER SHIMMERING WONDER" Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire

PAULA BEER BARBARA AUER MATTHIAS BRANDT ENNO TREBS MIROIRS NO.3 A FILM BY CHRISTIAN PETZOLD

QUINZAinE DES CINÉASTES Société des réalisateurs de films

IN CINEMAS APRIL 17th

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