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Interview: Zamo Mkhwanazi – Laundry (2025)
Rooted in an observational, character-driven approach, Zamo Mkhwanazi's work explores intimate moments drawn from lived experience, focusing on how ordinary routines reveal larger social...
2026 Berlinale: Kelly O’Sullivan & Alex Thompson’s ‘Mouse’, Danielle Arbid’s ‘Only Rebels Win’ in Panorama
The Berlinale will be unveiling their titles over the next couple of weeks and this morning we have the first items selected for the...
Interview: Kaouther Ben Hania – The Voice of Hind Rajab
When I was actively watching Kaouther Ben Hania’s devastating The Voice of Hind Rajab (read review), it reminded me Alejandro González Iñárritu's short film...
2026 Oscars: The Golden Globe Six Among the International Feature Shortlist
The Oscars have announced the shortlists in 12 categories for the upcoming 98th ceremony. Wicked: For Good and Sinners topped the list with eight...
Interview: Ntobeko Sishi – Laundry (2025)
We first became aware of South Africa filmmaker Zamo Mkhwanazi’s cinema language with her last short film in the TIFF/Sundance selected Sadla back in...
Interview: Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Marty Supreme marks a new evolution in the work of Josh Safdie, a filmmaker whose auteur signature is defined by nervy momentum, abrasive intimacy,...
2026 Sundance: Amandine Thomas, Nash Edgerton, Cristina Costantini, Liza Mandelup & Tawfeek Barhom Among 54 Selected Shorts!
Fifty-four short films (and not all world premieres) were selected from a whopping 11,480 submissions to be part of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival....
The Voice of Hind Rajab | Review
In a Child’s Name: Ben Hania’s Grueling Portrait of Genocide
It’s the responsibility of artists to use their platforms as a mechanism to speak truth...
Interview: Óliver Laxe – Sirāt (2025 Marrakech International Film Festival)
Óliver Laxe has been on a whirlwind promotional tour for his fourth feature ever since it premiered to thunderous critical acclaim at the Cannes...
Interview: Akinola Davies Jr. – My Father’s Shadow
Before he began his maiden voyage into Cannes (being selected for the Un Certain Regard section and winning a Special Mention for the Caméra...
2025 André Bazin Prize: Louise Hémon’s ‘The Girl in the Snow’ (L’Engloutie) Wins
Selected for this year's Directors' Fortnight, Louise Hémon's The Girl In The Snow continues to wow auds -- it has now claimed the 2025...
Interview: Morad Mostafa – Aisha Can’t Fly Away
Part of a new wave of Egyptian filmmakers testing genre waters, Morad Mostafa builds from 2023 short "I Promise You Paradise," to once again...
2025 Gan Film Foundation: Guillaume Renusson, Nyima Cartier, Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz & Lila Pinell Land Support
The quartet of first and second feature film projects highlighted by the Gan Film Foundation have been unveiled and we have a pair worth...
2026 Sundance: Walter Thompson-Hernández, Kogonada & Makoto Nagahisa in the NEXT Section
Walter Thompson-Hernández, Kogonada and Makoto Nagahisa are just some of the alluring unique filmmaker talents working on the type of cinema that you can't...
2026 Sundance: Josephine Decker, David Wain, Macon Blair, Jay Duplass , Olivia Wilde & Gregg Araki in Premieres Section
Lots of familiar Park City faces are among the fiction and non-fiction heavyweights that make up the Premieres section. Josephine Decker brings Chasing Summer...
2026 Sundance: Rachel Lambert, Beth de Araújo & Josef Kubota Wladyka in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Catch the Fair One's Josef Kubota Wladyka, Sometimes I Think About Dying's Rachel Lambert and Soft & Quiet's Beth de Araújo are among the...
2026 Sundance: Visar Morina, Myrsini Aristidou & Suzanne Andrews Correa in World Cinema Dramatic Comp
Myrsini Aristidou, Visar Morina and Suzanne Andrews Correa are among the ten filmmakers selected for World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Cyprus born filmmaker Myrsini Aristidou...
Resurrection | Review
In Dreams: Gan Explores a Century of the Cinematic Syndrome
We are such stuff as dreams (and celluloid) are made on, according to the sumptuous...
Interview: Annemarie Jacir – Palestine 36
With her sweeping and ambitious fourth feature, Palestine 36, Annemarie Jacir gives emotional weight to the history books, excavating the roots of nearly a...
Little Trouble Girls | Review
Circles of Perfection: Djukić Surveys the Compromises of Sexual Awakening
Taking its title from the 1995 Sonic Youth track Little Trouble Girls (Kaj ti je...
La grazia | Review
The Long Goodbye: Sorrentino Returns to Familiar Remembrances of Things Past
Paolo Sorrentino reunites with his onscreen alter ego Toni Servillo in La Grazia for...
Interview: Arab Nassar – Once Upon a Time in Gaza
Over the course of their three feature films, Gaza-born filmmaker twins Tarzan and Arab Nassar have built a body of cinema rooted in the...
Interview: Tawfeek Barhom – I’m Glad You’re Dead Now (Short)
From Tarik Selah's Boy from Heaven (2022) to the recent Jonathan Millet's Ghost Trail (2024), Tawfeek Barhom has the kind of face that stays...
Interview: Ali Asgari – Divine Comedy
Sometimes, in a landscape where censorship and endless approvals are the norm, following your creative instincts means thinking differently and finding ways to work...
Interview: Hasan Hidi – The President’s Cake
Earlier this year, first-time filmmaker Hasan Hadi arrived in Cannes, conquered the Croisette landing the coveted Caméra d'Or prize and the newly minted Directors'...
Interview: Jihan K. – My Father and Qaddafi
Selected Out of Competition for the Venice Film Festival, My Father and Qaddafi digs into repressed memories, collective feelings and brick by brick forging...
Interview: Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby
Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby is a sharply observed, emotionally incisive work that blends humor with vulnerability to explore the messiness of modern relationships and...
Interview: Óliver Laxe – Sirāt
In his debut You Are All Captains (2010), Óliver Laxe blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction, probing questions of authorship and control, with...
The Secret Agent | Review
Mischief, Thou Art Afoot: Filho Captivates with Seductive, Furtive Period Thriller
Pregnant with dread and jam-packed with homage to the tone and time of sweaty,...
Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho & Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
Winner of the Best Director and Best Actor prizes at Cannes Film Festival, The Secret Agent brought together Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura...
Interview: Chloé Zhao & Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
In one of 2025’s most searing dramatic screen performances, Jessie Buckley embodies Agnes (the wife of William Shakespeare) with such fierce passion and unguarded...
Interview: Paul Mescal – Hamnet
It overpowered critics in Telluride, slayed Toronto audiences and has been on a rampage ever since winning audience film festival awards and catapulting itself...
Interview: Producer Rodrigo Teixeira – Sotomayor’s ‘La Perra’, Naishtat’s ‘Glaxo’, Gray’s ‘Paper Tiger’
For over two decades, Rodrigo Teixeira has been a cornerstone of international auteur cinema, building a reputation as a producer with a discerning eye...
Interview: Emma Stone & Jesse Plemons – Bugonia
Unfolding like a psychological seesaw of balanced fear, delusion, and unexpected intimacy—Teddy Gatz has slipped so deeply into conspiracy thinking that it has isolated...
Reflection in a Dead Diamond | Review
Feed My Fetish, Please: Cattet & Forzani Pay Homage to the Eurospy in Dazzling Pastiche
Whether giallo gore or Western shaped, their films don’t lose...
Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) | Review
Ripe Fruits: Kanawade Taps the Bittersweet Rind of Going Home Again
While there’s been an uptick in contemporary LGBTQ+ films from India over the past...
Sauna | Review
Love Me If You Dare: Broe Explores Love in a Hopeless Place
Harlan Ellison’s publication Love Ain’t Nothing But Sex Misspelled might be a more...
Interview: Alireza Khatami – The Things You Kill
For his second feature film, Toronto-based Alireza Khatami tackles masculinity, shame, and the violence passed down through generations. A haunting, psychologically layered drama that...
Sirat | Review
A Bridge Too Far: Laxe Enters the Zone
“The Zone wants to be respected. Otherwise it will punish.” Aleksandr Kayadonvsky’s line from Tarkovsky’s existential sci-fi...
Sound of Falling | Review
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Schilinksi Paints a Microcosm of Misogyny
The original title of Mascha Schilinski’s sophomore feature was The Doctor...
The Things You Kill | Review
A Poison Tree: Khatami Deconstructs the Psychoses of Patriarchy
For his third feature, Iranian American director Alireza Khatami formulates a powerful psychodrama unspooling through the...
Interview: Isabella Eklöf – Kalak
In her stunning feature debut (that premiered at Sundance), Swedish filmmaker Isabella Eklöf offered an unflinching and pitiless examination of a drug dealer's inner...
2025 Prix Louis Delluc Awards: La petite dernière, Nouvelle Vague, Arco, Kika & Nino Nominated
While the focus for awards season these days is Stateside, but the French will soon begin campaign mode for César Awards and other prestigious...
2025 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award: My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
IONCINEMA.com and Indie Film Site Network partners The Film Stage, Hammer to Nail, Next Best Picture, RogerEbert.com, and Slant Magazine (plus a Letterboxd folks...
Jay Kelly | Review
It’s a Non-Refundable Life: Baumbach Explores the Sacrifices of Fame
George Clooney headlines what could be interpreted as an approximation of his own experiences in...
We Had a Pope!: Ruffalo Confirmed for Bonello’s Vatican Thriller ‘Santo Subito!’
Back in June we jumped on the news that Bertrand Bonello was potentially setting up shop for the curious sound project Santo Subito! and...
2025 Marrakech Film Festival: Meryem Benm’Barek, Lucía Aleñar Iglesias & Akinola Davies Jr. in Comp
Along with France's Les Arcs Film Festival in December the last major film festival of note on the film festival map is Marrakech. Today...
2025 Marrakech Film Festival: Jarmusch, Panahi, Chan-wook, Enyedi, Chloé Zhao & Kaouther Ben Hania Among Selections
You can't get more of a best of the film festival circuit than what the Marrakech International Film Festival is offering this year. Opening...
