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Beneath its religious Beneath its religious trappings, Edward trappings, Edward Berger ’s papal thriller Berger’s papal thriller asks secular and highly asks secular and highly topical questions about topical questions about leadership and how leadership and how we treat our opponents. we treat our opponents. PLUS The director PLUS The director and the f ilm’s star Ralph and the f ilm’s star Ralph Fiennes on ambition Fiennes on ambition and Roman Catholicism. and Roman Catholicism. By Catherine Wheatley By Catherine Wheatley

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BLACK FILM BULLETIN This edition revisits a 1995 interview with director Haile Gerima, explores the progress being made on hair and make-up on sets, and reflects on the Black female filmmakers represented at the BFI London Film Festival

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PAYAL KAPADIA Audiences and critics at Cannes were swept away by Payal Kapadia’s first fiction feature All We Imagine as Light, the moving story of the lives of three women as well as a lyrical portrait of Mumbai. She talks to Isabel Stevens

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ANDREA ARNOLD Bird blends magical and social realism to tell a violent but hopeful fable about a 12-year-old girl struggling to navigate life. The director tells Sophia SatchellBaeza about the thrill of giving free rein to her unconscious

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EMILIA PÉREZ

Jacques Audiard’s musical about a Mexican cartel boss undergoing gender reassignment surgery might sound like a radical new direction for the director, but it chimes with his films’ tireless fascination with self-reinvention. He talks to Mary Harrod