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2026 NYFF: James Gray’s Nightmarish American Dream ‘Paper Tiger’ to Open 64th Edition
James Gray’s Paper Tiger has been selected by the New York Film Festival as the Opening Night selection for the 64th edition. This is...
2026 Venice: Danny Boyle’s ‘Ink’ is the Opener for Golden Lion Competition
Danny Boyle's INK will indeed competition for the Golden Lion --- with the Venice Film Festival setting the control of free speech thriller as...
2026 Locarno Film Festival: Jury Duty for Fabrice Du Welz
Venice Film Festival just announced their jury, TIFF's Platform section trio should happen any day now, and we now have Locarno eyeballs on the...
2026 Venice Final Cut WIP Lab: Alaa Eddine Aljem, Sofia Djama & Bassel Ghandour Among Six Projects
Among the final stops on the road to their expected premieres at the major prestige film festivals of 2027 — most notably Cannes —...
The Pragmatic Mother: Carey Mulligan Cast in Sarah Polley’s ‘The Bell Jar’
Currently in production in Toronto, we now know the identity of who will play Mrs. Greenwood in the longest gestating feature film adaptation for...
2026 World Cinema Fund: Ana Cristina Barragán, Amanda Nell Eu & Lara Zeidan Receive Coin
Projects from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ecuador, Lebanon, Malaysia, Philippines, Senegal, and Turkey and up-and-comers Ana Cristina Barragán, Amanda Nell Eu and Lara Zeidan...
2026 Sundance Producers Labs: Kara Grace Miller, Natalie Remplakowski & Marie Alyse Rodriguez Selected
Meet the next generation of American indie producers in fiction and the docu field. Today the Sundance Institute announced the producers selected for the...
Amma Asante, Florian Zeller, Mike Leigh, Michael Dowse, Kamila Andini Among Our TIFF 2026 Predictions
What will surely be a flurry of festival announcements in the coming week ahead, we now shift our attention to the 2026 fall festival...
2026 Venice: Virginia Mori, Annie Ning, Saoirse Ronan & Nathan Silver in Orizzonti Shorts
The Venice Film Festival have announced the short films that will be part of the competition section and we find Italian illustrator Virginia Mori,...
Non Factory Girl: Greenwich Entertainment Adopts Zou Jing’s ‘A Girl Unknown’
Making more and more inroads into auteur world cinema with the likes of Fernando Eimbcke, Michel Franco and Lance Hammer, Greenwich Entertainment have now...
2026 Locarno: Hong Sang-soo, Basil Da Cunha, Lê Bảo, Ann Oren, Florin Șerban, Denis Côté, León & Cociña in Comp
Fighting off the selection committees for Venice, Toronto and San Sebastian, artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro unveiled the line-up for the 79th edition of...
Destination Denmark: Focus Features Lands Simon Stone’s ‘Elsinore’ for Awards Season Run
After Ira Sachs brought the Croisette The Man I Love, the story of a gay stage actor navigating 1980s New York while confronting an...
2026 TIFF: Siân Heder’s ‘Being Heumann’ Selected as TIFF Opener
We have a trio of Gala Presentation offerings to announce. Best Picture winning director of Coda will see her follow up feature open and...
Black Money for White Nights | 2026 Karlovy Vary Film Festival Review
Steal Big, Steal Little: Grozeva & Valchanov Deliver Just Deserts
It’s difficult not to feel a sense of schadenfreude in following the drastic downfall of...
The Guest | 2026 Karlovy Vary Film Festival Review
You’ll (Dis)Like My Mother: Mengel Mars a Celebration
With his directorial debut The Guest, director Mads Mengel seems to have turned to the manifesto of...
A Past That Won’t Let Go: Pio Marmaï & Sandor Funtek topline François Ozon’s ‘Le mal est fait’
Production is set to begin next week on a remarkable twenty-fifth feature film for French filmmaker François Ozon. The Cineuropa folks report that Ozon...
A Happy Family | 2026 Karlovy Vary Film Festival Review
She’s Come Undone: Mack Concocts an Empathetic Chaos
It’s clear from the opening moments of Jan-Eric Mack’s narrative debut A Happy Family the title is...
Chica Checa | 2026 Karlovy Vary Film Festival Review
The Next Best Thing: Holy Hits the Sweet Spot with Tender Drama
There’s a short list of feature length queer films in Czech cinema, and...
2026 Venice Gap-Financing Market: Lila Avilés, Damian Kocur & Asmae El Moudir Among Selected Projects
The Venice Production Bridge have unveiled the projects lining up the Venice Gap-Financing Market and we find auteurs such as Mexican filmmaker Lila Avilés,...
ARTE France Cinéma Supports New Works by Kira Kovalenko, Diao Yinan & Shengze Zhu
The ARTE France Cinéma committee got behind a trio of works (we expect all these these to be featured in Cannes next year) --...
The Privileged Few: Rose Glass Set to Direct ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’
Yorgos Lanthimos was rumored to be circling the project, but we now learn that Rose Glass will be directing My Year of Rest and...
2026 Oxbelly Screenwriters Fellows: Mounia Akl, Diego Céspedes & Celine Devaux Sophomore Projects Selected
Costa Brava, Lebanon's Mounia Akl, Everybody Loves Jeanne's Celine Devaux and The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo's Diego Céspedes are among the baker's dozen...
2026 Doha Film Institute: Jessy Moussallem, Àlex Lora Cercós & Seemab Gul Land Support
Qatar’s Doha Film Institute has announced the recipients of its 2026 Spring Grants --- as usual we focus on fiction feature film projects in...
Total Eclipse of the Art: Markus Schleinzer Sets Christian Friedel as ‘Klaus’ Nomi
Fresh off the acclaimed Berlinale premiere of his third feature, Rose (hands down was among read our glowing review), Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer is...
No Disappearing Act Here: Kino Lorber Locates Manuela Martelli’s ‘The Meltdown’
Following its Un Certain Regard premiere at Cannes, Manuela Martelli’s sophomore feature The Meltdown (El Deshielo) has landed at Kino Lorber, marking a renewed...
Two Prosecutors | Review
Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté
A good man is hard to find, and if one were to be found, he’s likely...
2026 Eurimages: Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri & Camille Vidal-Naquet Land Coin
Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri and Camille Vidal-Naquet have landed important coin for their upcoming feature film projects via...
Dietrich in Four Acts: Agnieszka Holland Longs for ‘Berlinweh – Yearning for a Home’
Showing no signs of slowing down with the output of Charlatan (2020), Green Border (2023), and Franz (2025) this decade, Agnieszka Holland is entering...
The Most Precious Of Cargoes | Review
The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in Moral Fable
What’s most interesting about director Michel Hazanavicius are his valiant attempts at dabbling in...
Romería | Review
Blood Relatives: Simon Treads Familiar Water with Continued Autofiction
After winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for her 2022 sophomore film Alcarras,...
Disappearing Act: Thomas Salvador Follows Rebecca Marder, Nadia Melliti & Antoine Reinartz in ‘Chercher la fille’
Rebecca Marder, recently seen in Ozon’s The Stranger, Nadia Melliti, who captured the Cannes Best Actress prize for La petite dernière, and Antoine Reinartz...
2026 Cannes Film Festival – Checklist of Our Reviews
IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature films across all...
2026 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Un Certain Regard [Video]
The jury of Leila Bekhti and peers Thomas Cailley, Angele Diabang, Laura Samani, and Lebanese composer Khaled Mouzanar handed out the prizing for the...
Clive Owen Crosses Reactor Number 4: Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi’s ‘Radioactive’ in the Works
Last week Clive Owen let it slip that he was working on a new project by Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi (we've been patiently waiting for his...
Rasmus Rummaging: Kuosmanen Pops the Cork on ‘Dream Come True’ with Magnus Millang & Paprika Steen
Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen is set to take the plunge, not only will he be switching languages, but he'll be changing landscapes for his...
Interview: Marine Atlan – La Gravida | 2026 Cannes Film Festival
This year, the Critics' Week gifted us a feature debut that layers a visual sensibility to a coming-of-age film that captures the fragile moment...
Interview: Abinash Bikram Shah – Elephants in the Fog | 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Making his second splash in Cannes after seeing his short Lori land a Special Mention in 2022, Nepali filmmaker Abinash Bikram Shah looks towards...
Interview: Rakan Mayasi – Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep | 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Set within a tightly knit Bedouin community in Lebanon, Yesterday the Eye Didn't Sleep unfolds less as a traditional drama than as a sensory...
La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review
The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard Adaptation
“My name is Fatima,” is one of the constant refrains utilized in Fatima Daas’ celebrated...
