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Salvation | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Hysterical Intervention: Alper Gets Overwrought Exploring Tribalism The land dispute at the center of Emin Alper’s latest film Salvation has all the trademarks of a...

You BETcha!: ‘Yellow Letters’, ‘Rose’ & ‘Queen at Sea’ are the Golden Bear Frontrunners

YouBETcha! is back, this time for our Berlinale edition, where we guess the odds of the films most likely to pick up the converted...

2026 Berlinale: Mundruczó, Çatak, Aïnouz, Schleinzer, Dulude-de Celles, Anthony Chen, Lance Hammer in Golden Bear Comp

There is a lot of unpack here with the official competition offerings which consists of two international premieres and twenty world premieres for a...

2024 Eurimages: Visar Morina, Hlynur Pálmason, Nadav Lapid, Valentyn Vasyanovych & Dardennes Receive Support

The results of the second Eurimages Project Evaluation Session for 2024 have just been announced and we are finding some major projects in the...

2022 European Film Awards: Alcarràs, Close, Triangle of Sadness, Corsage & Holy Spider on 30 Short List

It's that time of year again where Euro titles from Venice of the previous year duke it out with Euro Cannes film productions of...

2022 Cannes Coverage Wrap-Up: Un Certain Regard

All the People I'll Never Be - Davy Chou The Blue Caftan - Maryam Touzani Burning Days - Emin Alper Butterfly Vision - Maksym Nakonechnyi Corsage -...

2022 Cannes: Hlynur Pálmason, Agnieszka Smoczyńska & Davy Chou in the Un Certain Regard

Still without the section opener and a couple of films shy from being complete, nearly half of the fifteen titles selected for this year's...

2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight

Last month we learned that the upcoming 2022 edition of Directors' Fortnight (aka Quinzaine) taking place between May 18th to the 27th will be...

The Conversation: The Din in Berlin – Top 10 Best of the 69th Berlinale

The 69th Berlinale will be remembered as a rather curious transitional year for the festival, the final year of its 4th director, Dieter Kosslick,...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #131. A Tale of Three Sisters – Emin Alper

A Tale of Three Sisters Turkish director Emin Alper returns with his third feature, A Tale of Three Sisters, a 1980s set period piece. Produced...

The Conversation: Bring Forth Berlin (Possible Contenders for the Competition)

As has been the Berlinale’s custom of years past, several early competition titles have been confirmed along with the 2019 opener, Lone Scherfig’s The...

The Conversation – Cannes Predictions VI: Middle East Repped by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jafar Panahi & Hiner Saleem

We can anticipate a handful of items from the Middle East, Africa, and India will populate several sidebars, if not the competition itself. Turkey,...

2015 TIFF: Porumboiu, Muntean, Sewitsky & Tsangari Among Contemporary World Cinema Selections

Anne Sewitsky's Sundance preemed Homesick, Cannes preemed Romanian imports from Radu Muntean's One Floor Below and Corneliu Porumboiu's The Treasure along with Athina Rachel...

2015 Venice Film Festival: Guadagnino, Sokurov, Kaufman, Bellocchio & Fukunaga Compete for Golden Lion

With the exception of Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation and Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl, the nineteen other films in Venice Film Festival's...

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Interview: Scandar Copti – A Childhood (Work in Progress)

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