Film

The acclaimed make-up artist talks working on Killers Of The Flower Moon, Avatar: The Way of Water, and his long working relationship with Jeff Bridges.

Eight moments of iconic Oscar's drama, brought to you by Variety contributor Ben Croll. Illustrations by Orfeo Tagiuri.

Exploring the real life story of teenage girls radicalised by extremists, Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters merges documentary with re-enactment to create an intimate analysis of their past and present. 

Adapted for screen by Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things, Alasdair Gray’s 1992 steampunk novel, references La Salpêtrière, the famous hysteria hospital of late 19th century Paris. Does its heroine Bella Baxter, a 25 year-old woman with the brain of a baby, epitomise the notion of the ‘wandering womb’?

Shona Heath has long been one of the most in-demand production designers around. Luke Georgiades caught up with Heath to discuss her collaboration with Yorgos Lanthimos and how she and James Price breathed life into the world of Poor Things.

Hong Sang Soo’s third film with Isabelle Huppert is a rhythmically structured drama that explores the performance and perambulations of the everyday. 

A collaboration between Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, this urgent documentary about life on the West Bank explores the resistance of memory to obliteration.

Susan Finlay reviews Mati Diop’s ‘Dahomey’, a searching documentary about the repatriation of colonial artefacts to Africa. Watching from a controversial edition of Berlinale, she finds Germany's contemporary politics are brought to the fore.

Hannah Ghorashi speaks to Julia von Heinz about 'Treasure', a feature about intergenerational trauma starring Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham.

Annie Baker's quiet debut feature explores the dynamics between a carefree mother and her questioning daughter.