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Ok #filmsky. Another year, another banging #LFF line-up to cover! Over the next few weeks, I’ll be dropping reactions & reviews for everything weird & wonderful #LondonFilmFestival has to offer. There’ll be coverage on insertmontage.com & bite sized thoughts in the thread below 👇 #LFF2026 🎞️🎬📽️

2. HOT WATER (dir. Ramzi Bashour) I’m a sucker for a good road trip movie & this is an ok road trip movie. Ticks all the genre boxes but never develops them. The mother-son dynamic is sweet but for a trip that takes in so many miles geographically, it doesn’t go anywhere. Dale Dickey steals the show

3. FLIES (dir. Fernando Eimbcke) Such a lovely little film. A low-key black & white delight about the unlikely bond between an isolated woman & the 9-year-old son of a man she begrudgingly rents a room out to. Beautifully shot with a playful spirit & tonnes of heart despite its downplayed emotions

4. DAO (dir. Alain Gomis) Took minute to dial in on but once locked in I loved it. Dao is a 3-hour epic that cleverly plays with form & time as it bounces back & forth between France, Africa & the film’s rehearsals to bring us a soulful, thematically rich look at culture, identity, family & ancestry