Tag: top-stories
Polar Ice: Malou Khebizi & Soundos Mosbah Cast in Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz’s Debut ‘Le triangle d’or’
Earlier this week, the folks at Cineuropa provided details on a debut film project we've been tracking due to its producer. This means that...
Interview: Laura Carreira – On Falling
Portuguese/Edinburgh-based filmmaker Laura Carreira wowed the film festival circuit when On Falling premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival 2024 followed by a...
Interview: Jen Gatien – Men at War
The story of Jordan Goudreau, a former Green Beret hired to overthrow Venezuela's president, descends into a complex debacle where every party is at...
Sentimental Value | Review
Life as a House: Trier Turns Broken Hearts Into Art
In Woody Allen’s Interiors (1978), an unhappy tale of three sisters contending with their parents’...
Interview: Alexandre Dostie – Boa (Short Film)
We first took note of Quebecois filmmaker Alexandre Dostie with his back to back shorts in the TIFF-premiered short 'Mutants' (2016) and the Sundance-showcased...
2025 Marrakech Film Festival: New Projects by Scandar Copti, Mounia Akl & Amjad Al Rasheed at the Atlas Workshops
Before the Marrakech Film Festival unveil their 2025 line-up, we have learned the films that are the make up of the Atlas Workshops (November...
Interview: Ulises Porra – Under the Same Sun
For his third feature, Ulises Porra embarks on an ambitious cinematic voyage that dives deep into questions of freedom, colonialism, and hybridity. Under the...
Duolingo Mode: Sebastian Stan Targets ‘Impunity’ in Gálvez’s Pinochet-Era Spy Thriller
After returning to his Romanian roots for Cristian Mungiu’s upcoming Fjord, Sebastian Stan let slip that he will go full Duolingo mode picking up...
Die My Love | Review
Images of Yellow Wallpaper: Ramsay Charts a Psychotic Break
For her first narrative feature in eight years, Lynne Ramsay returns with Die My Love, based...
Pillion | Review
Sit & Deliver: Lighton Assumes Positions in Titillating Debut
There’s a melancholic seductiveness to Pillion, the directorial debut of Harry Lighton, based on the 2020...
Interview: György Pálfi & Zsófia Ruttkay – Hen
In 2025 cinema embraced the POV of our winged friends. We have Macedonian filmmaker Tamara Kotevska's Tale of Silyan that takes the human and...
2025 Les Arcs Film Festival: New Lisa Brühlmann, Mar Coll & Lina Soualem Projects In Development
A longstanding champion of emerging European cinema, the Les Arcs Film Festival’s Co-Production Village has announced eighteen feature film projects selected for its development...
Nouvelle Vague | Review
Make Me Lose My Breath: Linklater Meddles in Manicured Homage
It’s unclear what the exact purpose of Nouvelle Vague is meant to serve, other than...
Interview: Alejo Moguillansky – Pin de Fartie
Embracing Samuel Beckett's Endgame, Fin de Partie creates a hall of mirrors exploring finitude and dependency. It presents a world of looming farewells and...
Interview: Yorgos Lanthimos – Bugonia
I participated in a virtual roundtable for the film this past weekend just before yesterday's Gothams nominations announcement where Bugonia (read our Venice review)...
2025 Gothams: Studio-Backed ‘One Battle After Another’ Takes on True Indies; Lands Six Noms
In a cinematic landscape increasingly dominated by gargantuan, risk-averse budgets, the upcoming Gotham Awards have set the stage for a compelling David vs. Goliath...
Interview: Yorgos Lanthimos & Jerskin Fendrix – Bugonia
There is a chaotic violence at the core of Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia and so when the filmmaker re-teamed with Poor Things and Kinds of...
Exclusive Trailer: Ashes to Ashes, Toronto to Oslo in Bohdanowicz’s ‘Measures for a Funeral’ (2025)
After premiering at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival and completing its long film festival run, Sofia Bohdanowicz's Measures for a Funeral is now...
2025 SODEC Coin for New Projects by Philippe Lesage, Annie St-Pierre & Charlotte Le Bon
Quebec’s SODEC (the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles) have opened the coffers backing the next wave of projects that will shoot next year...
From Aftersun to Afterpunk: Charlotte Wells To Tackle Blondie Biopic As Her Sophomore Feature?
Hollywood is in the midst of a biopic boom, with living music icons taking center stage and now we might get some CBGB flavoring...
Bugonia | Review
When Will They Ever Learn?: Lanthimos Turns to Eco-Horror
Yorgos Lanthimos embarks on his first remake with Bugonia, a loose adaptation of the 2003 Korean...
Hedda | Review
Party Time: Nia DaCosta Throws A Forgettable Rager
If you’ve been looking for a jazzy, ‘50s version of Saltburn, get ready to pull out your...
The Mastermind | Review
Thieves Like Us: Reichardt Wanders with an Inscrutable Slacker
Abstract paintings are not the only undefined objects in The Mastermind, the latest from Kelly Reichardt,...
Alpha | Review
Turn to Stone: Ducournau Hits a Wall with Disease Allegory
“Death is the cure for all illness,” wrote English writer Thomas Browne, which is a...
New Projects by Emmanuelle Bercot, Christophe Honoré, Philippe Faucon & Charlotte Le Bon in the Works
As we get ready for the first wave of title selections from Sundance and Berlinale to start populating the 2026 calendar, we are also...
Frankenstein | Review
The Seat of the Soul: Del Toro Takes Aim at Shelley’s Monster
Much like its title has been confused as reference to an abominable creation...
Lens Crafters: Marie Rosselet-Ruiz Filming ‘L’une des leurs’ with Céleste Brunnquell
A small independent film project we'll keeping tabs on, Cineuropa reports that Marie Rosselet-Ruiz commenced production a couple of week back ago on her...
Blue Moon | Review
The Unbearable Lightness of Seeing: Linklater Pays Homage to a Broken Hart
Lorenz Hart was a lonely hunter. If you believe you haven’t heard of...
It Was Just an Accident | Review
Phantom Limb: Panahi Treads Ripples of Retribution
Jafar Panahi continues to poke the bear with It Was Just an Accident, his latest being another film...
2025 European Film Awards: Tereza Nvotová, Urška Djukić, Mihai Mincan, Laura Carreira & Murat Fıratoğlu Make Shortlist
From Dag Johan Haugerud's Dreams (Sex Love) to Palme d'Or winning It Was Just an Accident by Jafar Panahi to the Silver Lion winner...
Ballad of a Small Player | Review
Out Of Luck: Colin Farrell Can’t Save This Tale Of A Gambler Gone Bust
Is Edward Berger hard of hearing? That might be the first...
The Safeword Is…: Isabella Eklöf Launches DOGMA 25 with Bold BDSM Drama ‘MR. NAWASHI’
Brings out the chips, dip, chains and whips. Production has officially began on filmmaker Isabella Eklöf's third feature film - which officially becomes the...
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You | Review
You’ll Like My Mother: Bronstein Lets Us Feel the Byrne
Motherhood approaches the verge of the horrific in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,...
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...
The Hyperboreans | Review
From the Land of Ice and Snow: Cocina & Leon Pursue Hermetical Cinematic Spell
To say the latest feature from the experimentally inclined Chilean directing...
Interview: Carolina Cavalli – The Kidnapping of Arabella
Using the road-movie narrative template to explore an unconventional form of companionship, The Kidnapping of Arabella is far from a typical coming-of-age film —...
A House of Dynamite | Review
On a Nuclear Day You Can See Forever: Bigelow’s Living in a Powder-keg, Giving Off Sparks
With the doomsday clock adjusted to eighty-nine seconds to...
2025 Critics’ Week Next Step II Programme: Felipe Galvez, Graham Foy, Cristele Alves Meira, Mikko Myllylahti & Michael Borodin Selected
Cannes’ Critics’ Week has unveiled the seven international filmmakers and three composers who are headed to Corsica for the third edition of its Next...
2025 Prix IRIS: Rankin’s ‘Universal Language’ Leads “Quebec Oscar” Noms with 17; Lesage’s ‘Comme le feu’ Lands 8
Once again, the Gala Québec Cinéma's Prix IRIS (the "Quebec Oscars") has released a muddled field of nominations, awkwardly grouping standout 2024 films with...
50th Résidence du Festival de Cannes: Federico Luis & Maksym Nakonechnyi Among the Half Dozen Invites
Federico Luis from Argentina and Maksym Nakonechnyi from Ukraine are among the six young filmmakers chosen for the Festival de Cannes Residency in Paris....
The Ice Tower (La Tour de Glace) | Review
Hearts of Glass: Hadžihalilović Casts a Wintry Spell
A chilly scene of winter unfolds in La Tour de Glace (The Ice Tower) at a glacial...
2025 American Film Festival – US in Progress: Talia Lugacy, Dash Shaw & Suzi Yoonessi Selected
Poland’s American Film Festival (November 6 to the 11th) have announced the lucky nine projects that will participate in this year's US in Progress...
The Smashing Machine | Review
Raging Lull: Safdie Pays Homage to a Trailblazer
The ultimate purpose of The Smashing Machine, the latest film from Benny Safdie, is to give credit...
Fastvold Fast Track: Searchlight Clothed with ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Beneath Her Feet
After being in the awards conversation in previous years with Poor Things and A Complete Unknown, Searchlight Pictures are looking to be a part...
Beauty in the Breakdown: Sachs Directs Rami Malek & Rebecca Hall in 80s New York Musical ‘The Man I Love’
Coined as a "musical fantasia of a city under duress," Rami Malek is making a return to American indie and Rebecca Hall makes it...
The Ghost in the Machine: Kleber Mendonça Filho Plots 1930s Recife Dive from ‘Pictures of Ghosts’ DNA
Currently on an extended promotional tour since winning in Cannes with The Secret Agent (read review), Kleber Mendonça Filho will essentially easter egg or...
