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Interview: Nathalia Acevedo – Salón de belleza

Actress-turned-filmmaker Nathalia Acevedo made her feature directorial debut with Salón de belleza, a very, loose adaptation of Mario Bellatin’s 1994 novella that transforms a...

Interview: Mihai Mincan – Milk Teeth (Dinți de lapte)

Fusing a country's psychological rift and political shift alongside a truly complex character study that explores innocence loss, absence and community disillusionment, in Milk...

Milk Teeth | 2025 Venice Film Festival Review

No Child Left Behind: Mincan Explores a Nation That Stood in Silence Perhaps more terrifying than the high-seas stowaway trip from hell (2022’s To the North),...

Harvest | Review

Sheep, Sheep, Sheep: Tsangari’s Monotonous Treatise on Modernization Adapted from a novel by Jim Croce, Harvest is Greek auteur Athina Rachel Tsangari's third feature narrative,...

Dahomey | Review

Plunder Years: Diop Reflects on the Complex Realities of Reparation The spirit of Ozymandias, the classic poem from Percy Bysshe Shelley, might rouse itself in...

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths | Review

The Unexpected Virtue of Indulgence: Iñárritu Repeats Himself with Repetitive, Soulless Extravaganza “The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple,” said Oscar...

A Prayer Before Dawn | Review

Break the Dawn: Sauvaire Browbeats with Violent, Grim Prison Drama Although a simple plot synopsis tends to glorify the perilous pugilism which provides the bizarre...

Maria Monge’s Treat Me Like Fire (Joueurs) | 2018 Cannes Film Festival

Where Maria Monge's Treat Me Like Fire excels is in abiding by a frenetic fuelled street film that is more steeped in fantasy, than...

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Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

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Interview: Virginie Efira – All of a Sudden

In All of a Sudden (read review), Virginie Efira delivers...

Interview: Nathalia Acevedo – Salón de belleza

Actress-turned-filmmaker Nathalia Acevedo made her feature directorial debut with...

Fjord | Review

Uncanny Valley: Mungiu Explores Liberated Prisons Totalitarian mentality is driven...