Crashing out: critics Katie McCabe and Tim Grierson join to discuss festival premieres including Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, and more
War report: intimate and epic, My Undesirable Friends: Part One follows a small cohort of oppositional journalists in Putin’s Russia during the run-up to the military invasion of Ukraine
Video life: many of the best films at this year’s festival—including Blue Heron, God Will Not Help, and Dry Leaf—explored the imperfect nature of recollection
Charged as guilty: Roman Polanski‘s J'accuse, which dramatizes the infamous Dreyfus Affair, premiered to great acclaim in France—but soon led to further allegations of sexual abuse by the director