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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...
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Interviews
Interview: Tran Anh Hung – The Taste of Things
February 6, 2024In the Cannes Best Director-winning, The Taste of Things (aka The Pot-au-Feu) the passage of time...
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Reviews
The Taste of Things | Review
February 5, 2024Where’s the Beef?: Tran Anh Hung Activates the Salivary Glands Gastronomy has never seemed so forlornly...
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Reviews
Perfect Days | Review
February 2, 2024Road to Nowhere: Wenders Welcomes the Pleasures of a Simple Life in Quiet Drama In his...
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Reviews
Disco Boy | Review
February 2, 2024Mal Travaille: Abbruzzese Finds the Rhythm of the Night in Hypnotic Debut “E’en hell hath its...
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Reviews
Grey Bees | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
February 1, 2024Life During Wartime: Dmytro Moiseiev Chronicles Everyday Survival In Donbass Before Russia’s Invasion How did life...
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Reviews
Steppenwolf | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
February 1, 2024Move Over John Wick: Adilkhan Yerzhanov Unleashes A Bloody Tale Of Vengeance In His Latest Feature...
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Foreign Film News
Exclusive: Clip for André Téchiné’s My New Friends (2024 Berlinale)
February 1, 2024Today we feature an exclusive clip of veteran French filmmaker André Téchiné‘s latest oeuvre in My...
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Reviews
Flathead | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
January 31, 2024Days And Nights In Bundaberg: Jaydon Martin’s Docu-Fiction Journey Leaves Outsiders Adrift Falling under an atmospheric...
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Reviews
Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
January 30, 2024Camera Crew: Filmmakers Become Family In Farshad Hashemi’s Quietly Defiant Meta-Movie The problem with being lonely...
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Interviews
Interview: Yann Mounir Demange & Rosa Attab – Dammi (short)
January 30, 2024Yann Mounir Demange quite literally blasted onto the scene back in 2014 with his feature debut...
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Reviews
Swimming Home | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
January 29, 2024Marriage Story: Justin Anderson Serves Up An Enigmatic Challenge Is His Feature Debut A marriage in...
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Foreign Film News
Exclusive: Clip for Carlo Sironi’s My Summer with Irène (2024 Berlinale)
January 29, 2024Part of the Generation 14plus selection at the upcoming Berlinale, My Summer with Irène is the...
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Interviews
Interview: Lila Avilés – Tótem
January 29, 2024Among the titles competing for the Golden Bear at the 2023 Berlinale, the sophomore feature by...
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Reviews
Tótem | Review
January 29, 2024Life and Death of the Party: Aviles’ Bustling Ensemble Piece Balances Pain & Profundity Taking place...
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Reviews
Under the Fig Trees | Review
January 29, 2024Figment of their Imagination: Sehiri’s Baskets Filled with Hope, Humor and Harsh Truths There is a...
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Reviews
Mambar Pierrette | Review
January 29, 2024In Fabric: Mbakam Conveys a Season’s Struggles in Cameroon “In the ant’s house, the dew is...
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Reviews
In the Land of Brothers | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
January 22, 2024Family of Straw: Amirfazli & Ghasemi Present a Trilogy of Familial Tragedies The title, of course,...
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Reviews
Malu | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
January 21, 2024A Streetcar Named Desejo: Freire Mines Matriarchal Tendencies Having directed several short films and television series,...
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Foreign Film News
Exclusive: Clip for Roman Bondarchuk’s The Editorial Office (2024 Berlinale)
January 20, 2024We’ve got an exclusive clip to Ukrainian filmmaker Roman Bondarchuk‘s The Editorial Office (Redaktsiya) – his...
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Reviews
Veni Vidi Vici | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
January 20, 2024Destroy Everything You Touch: Hoesl & Riemann Come to Conquer with Dark Satire As ABBA once...
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Reviews
Sujo | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
January 19, 2024Goodbye Horses: Valadez & Rondero Explore a Valley of Violence Working as co-directors on their latest...
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Reviews
Thelma | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
January 18, 2024Grandma Scamma: Margolin Steals a Win with Squibb Although there’s a prodigious sub-genre of kooky comedies...
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Interviews
Interview: Pavia Sidhu & Yugam Sood – Dear Jassi
January 17, 2024A tale as old as time, and tragically a tale that was never meant to be....
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Reviews
Origin | Review
January 15, 2024Caste of the Unjust: DuVernay’s Scholarly Drama Traces the Universal Social Ills of Hierarchy For her...
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Film Festivals
2024 Cinema Eye Honors Awards: Sam Green’s 32 Sounds Lands Best Picture – Oscar Nom Next?
January 13, 2024Sam Green‘s 32 Sounds took the top honor of Best Feature at the 2024 Cinema Eye...
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Film Festivals
2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellows: Dozen Projects & 16 Participants for the Class of ’24
January 12, 2024Sixteen fellows with a dozen projects (out of 3,400 submissions) will be headed to the mythic...
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Interviews
Interview: Selman Nacar – Hesitation Wound
January 11, 2024Every few years, a notable new Turkish filmmaker emerges, and in this instance, we find Selman...
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Interviews
Interview: Sofia Alaoui – Animalia
January 10, 2024When the balance of the universe is disturbed, the hierarchy of nature’s totem can be reconfigured....
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Film Festivals
2024 Berlinale Co-Prod Market: Andrea Pallaoro, Andreas Fontana, Huang Ji & Ryuji Otsuka
January 9, 2024The Berlinale has revealed the lineup of its Co-Production Market and we’ve got some projects we’ll...
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Film Festivals
2024 MyFrenchFilmFestival: “The Beast in the Jungle”, “Junkyard Dog” & Zeno Graton’s “Le Paradis”
January 9, 2024Unifrance’s Gilles Pélisson and Executive Director Daniela Elstner announced the selections for the 14th edition of...
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Reviews
The Settlers | Review
January 8, 2024Once Upon a Time in Chile: Haberle Crafts Colonialist Past as a Vicious Western A quote...
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Interviews
Interview: Amjad Al Rasheed – Inshallah A Boy
January 7, 2024Set in Amman and in an unjust, severely outdated legal system where archaic rules are meant...
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Interviews
Interview: Halima Ouardiri – The Camel Driving School (Work in Progress)
January 4, 2024Cutting her teeth on the short form for just over a decade with award-winning trio of...
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Foreign Film News
Direct to Video: Léa Seydoux & Co. Learn Their Lines for Quentin Dupieux’s “À notre beau métier”
January 2, 2024After a 2023 where he gave us a double bill in Daaaaaali! (read review) and Yannick,...
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Interviews
Interview: Lisandro Alonso – Eureka
January 1, 2024It would be the longest hap between films and certainly his most ambitious project to date...
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Interviews
Interview: Gábor Reisz – Explanation for Everything
December 27, 2023Winner of the top prize in the Orizzonti section at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Gábor...
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Reviews
Ferrari | Review
December 26, 2023I Got a Fast Car: Mann Gets Glossy with Longstanding Labor of Love For his first...