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About Dry Grasses | Review
February 23, 2024To Sir, With Ego: Ceylan Waltzes with Narcissism in Captivating Character Study The filmography of Nuri...
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Io Capitano | Review
February 23, 2024Journey to Italy: Garrone Details Arduous Migrant Odyssey It might be a rite of passage for...
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Sons (Vogter) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 22, 2024A Poison Tree: Moller Employs Wrathful Mother in Jailhouse Revenge Drama “A man that studied revenge...
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Interviews
Interview: Hanna Gray Organschi / Rubber Hut – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
February 22, 2024We can confirm that it’ll have been a noteworthy 2024 for Hanna Gray Organschi. With a...
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Reviews
The Great Yawn of History | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 22, 2024Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Rasti Hunts for Spiritual Treasures There have been countless films about the...
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Who Do I Belong To | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 22, 2024Return of the Soldier: Joobeur Explores Ghosts of War Matriarchs confronted by their radicalized children have...
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Film Festivals
The Momentum Fellowship: Raven Jackson, Sing J. Lee, Laura Moss & D. Smith Among 2024 Fellows
February 22, 2024Featured prominently among the coverage from our media outlet, eight filmmakers in Raven Jackson (All Dirt...
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Interviews
Interview: Jane Casey Modderno / Here for the Weekend – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
February 21, 2024After crafting half a dozen shorts and adding to her repertoire with recent social platform/television writing...
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Reviews
Black Tea | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 21, 2024Spill the Tea: Sissako Flounders with Tepid Brew The level of ineptitude apparent in every regard...
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Gloria! | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 21, 2024Music of the Heart: Vicario Pays Symphonic Homage to Erased History Composer Margherita Vicario makes her...
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The Devil’s Bath (Des Teufels Bad) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 20, 2024Agnes of God: Franz & Fiala’s Bleak Portrait of Women & Madness “A Witch is born...
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Reviews
Matt and Mara | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 20, 2024Friends Forever: Radwanski Reteams With Deragh Campbell For Another Captivating Character Study In Close-Up The tension...
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Interviews
Interview: Francesca Canepa & Miguel Ángel Papalini / La Otra Orilla – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
February 20, 2024Prior to embarking on the writing journey for La Otra Orilla, a project supported by the...
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Foreign Language (Langue étrangère) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 20, 2024Tongues Untied: Love Lies Easy in Burger’s Cross Culture Coming of Age Drama There’s a lot...
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Pepe | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 20, 2024Cocaine Hippo: de Los Santos Arias Explores an Assassination To say Pepe, the second narrative feature...
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Architecton | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 20, 2024Judgment in Stone: Kossakovsky Gazes Into the Concrete Jungle Celebrated documentarian Viktor Kossakovsky explores our complex...
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A Traveler’s Needs | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 19, 2024The Traveler Has Come: Huppert Shines in Latest Collaboration with Sang-soo There are few directors who...
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Raíz (Through Rocks and Clouds) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 19, 2024A Walk in the Clouds: Becerra Mines Escapism and Innocence in Quiet Drama A dwindling group...
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My New Friends (Les gens d’à côté) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 19, 2024Your Friends & Neighbors: Téchiné Tries for Ethical Sentiments Now in his eighties, director André Téchiné...
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Dying (Sterben) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 19, 2024Family Matters: Glasner’s Sprawling Portrait of Chaotic Dysfunction Exemplifying Tolstoy’s famous Anna Karenina quote on ‘every...
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Some Rain Must Fall | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 19, 2024Mistress of Misery: Yang Explores the Turmoil of Transformation Here comes the rain again, falling on...
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Dahomey | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 19, 2024Plunder Years: Diop Reflects on the Complex Realities of Reparation The spirit of Ozymandias, the classic...
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Reas | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 19, 2024Caged Birds Singing: Arias Re-enacts Prison Experiences If Orange is the New Black was being workshopped...
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L’Empire (The Empire) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 18, 2024The Satire Strikes Back: Dumont Claims His Own Multi-Verse It’s sometimes difficult to predict what mode...
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My Summer with Irène | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 18, 2024Summertime Sadness: Sironi Escapes to Sicily in Oblique Friendship Drama There’s no running away from the...
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Another End | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 18, 2024The Power of Goodbye: Messina Gets Maudlin with Future Grief The devil’s unfortunately absent in the...
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Arcadia | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 18, 2024None of Us Strangers: Zois Probes Unrest of Our Shadows “It is a defect of God’s...
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From Hilde, With Love | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 18, 2024Germany, Pale Mother: Dresen Locates the Good Germans of WWII It comes as no surprise an...
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Hors du Temps (Suspended Time) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 17, 2024Time Regained: Assayas Agonizes in Pretentious Pandemic Reflection In what stands as evidence of a surprising...
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My Favorite Cake | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 17, 2024Layer Cake: Moghaddam & Sanaeeha Find Love in a Hopeless Place If ever there were a...
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The Editorial Office | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 16, 2024The Winds of War: Bondarchuk Straddles a World On a Wire While it should play like...
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A Different Man | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 16, 2024The Face of Another: Schimberg Scrutinizes the Pratfalls of Face Value Those familiar with his 2018...
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La cocina | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 16, 2024Soap Kitchen: Ruizpalacios Underwhelms & Over Bakes Food Drama Making his English language debut with fourth...
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Small Things like These | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 15, 2024All the Small Things: Mielants Mines the Evils of Complicity “The only thing necessary for the...
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Interviews
Interview: Alexandra Qin – Thirstygirl (Short)
February 14, 2024In our recently published Top 10 short films of 2024 Sundance Film Festival, we identified Thirstygirl...
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American Indie Films News
Metrograph Pictures Pitches Up Tent: India Donaldson’s “Good One” Set for Summer Release
February 13, 2024One of the critically best-ranked films (according to Indiewire’s Critics Poll – and our publication) to...
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Interviews
Interview: Numan Acar – The Suitcase (short)
February 12, 2024After more or less a solid decade of notable parts in multiple languages (most notably Fatih...
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Foreign Film News
Off Set: 2023 Red Sea Film Festival Portrait Series – Dear Jassi
February 12, 2024At the 2023 edition of the Red Sea Film Festival (3rd edition), we had the pleasure...
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Interviews
Interview: Tarsem Singh – Dear Jassi
February 11, 2024There is a moment in Dear Jassi where the film tonally comes to a halt. A...
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Interviews
Interview: Kantarama Gahigiri – Terra Mater – Mother Land (Short)
February 9, 2024In what could be best described as a slideshow formatted collection of smartly composed frames moving...
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Interviews
Interview: Àlex Lora Cercós – The Masterpiece (La Gran Obra) (Short)
February 9, 2024Known for a cinema that tackles social issues via the fiction and documentary feature form, it’s...
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Film Festivals
2024 Sundance Film Festival: Alexandra Qin’s Thirstygirl & Kate Jean Hollowell’s Say Hi After You Die Lead Our Top Ten Short Films
February 9, 2024We watched, we came and we conquered. 12,098 shorts were submitted for the 2024 edition of...
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Reviews
Perdidos en la noche (Lost in the Night) | Review
February 9, 2024Night Moves: Escalante Cultivates a Moody, Capricious Mystery Replete with a slew of customary features encountered...
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Interviews
Interview: Amat Escalante – Lost in the Night
February 8, 2024From the very onset with his feature debut Sangre (2005), filmmaker Amat Escalante has proposed a...
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Foreign Film News
Autumn in Belgium: Dardenne Bros. & Laura Wandel Currently Prepping Next Projects
February 7, 2024If the shooting schedule remains intact, we can circle a 2025 Cannes Film Festival playdate for...