Tag: top-stories
Interview: Zar Amir Ebrahimi – Holy Spider / Shayda / Tatami
Ali Abbasi brought her on as a casting director and as fate would have it Zar Amir Ebrahimi would go onto land the role...
2024 New Directors/New Films: Gábor Reisz, Selman Nacar, Laura Ferrés, Aaron Schimberg & India Donaldson In Line-Up
We've got films dating back to the last edition of Cannes, threaded in there are items from Locarno, Venice and more recent items from...
2024 REGARD – Saguenay Intl. Short Film Festival: 205 Shorts & 35 Programs
Just a little bit of time following the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand, the next major film festival dedicated to the short form is the REGARD –...
Silver Haze | Review
Keeper of the Flame: Polak Reckons with Reconciliation vs. Retribution in Conventional Drama
Dutch director Sacha Polak continues to explore the difficulties of acceptance and...
Interview: Marie Amachoukeli – Àma Gloria
Dialling into a unique relationship dynamic that isn't portrayed in cinema, Marie Amachoukeli, who won the Camera d'Or award at the 2014 edition of...
Interview: Houman Seyyedi & Azad Jafarian – World War III
In anticipation for the upcoming 95th Academy Awards, I chatted with director Houman Seyyedi and screenwriter Azad Jafarian, whose film World War III is...
Interview: Christian Moldes / Quince Kings – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
Wrapping up our conversations with fellows from the 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab, we met with a filmmaker who promptly reminded us that there is...
Interview: Sara Crow & David Rafailedes / Satoshi – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
On the day that this conversation took place, Sara Crow and David Rafailedes were on their way to a reception to accept one of...
Interview: Kristine Gerolaga / Lamok – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
Further proof that the Sundance Institute's Labs have made a firm commitment to include projects that fall in just about every genre, one of...
Une Famille | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
A Letter to Daddy: Angot Continues Confrontation of Incest
In short, there is no way to rate a film like Une Famille, the debut documentary...
Shambhala | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Defending Your Life: Bham’s Captivating Quest Follows Its Own Path
The journey is the destination in Nepalese director Min Bahadur Bam’s graceful sophomore film,...
About Dry Grasses | Review
To Sir, With Ego: Ceylan Waltzes with Narcissism in Captivating Character Study
The filmography of Nuri Bilge Ceylan is characterized by complex examinations of human...
Io Capitano | Review
Journey to Italy: Garrone Details Arduous Migrant Odyssey
It might be a rite of passage for contemporary Italian auteurs to examine the grueling adversity faced...
Sons (Vogter) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
A Poison Tree: Moller Employs Wrathful Mother in Jailhouse Revenge Drama
“A man that studied revenge keeps his own wounds green,” comes to mind in...
Interview: Hanna Gray Organschi / Rubber Hut – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
We can confirm that it'll have been a noteworthy 2024 for Hanna Gray Organschi. With a recent visit to Sundance Screenwriters Lab and the...
The Great Yawn of History | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Rasti Hunts for Spiritual Treasures
There have been countless films about the quest for fortune and glory, but you’ll be hard-pressed...
Who Do I Belong To | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Return of the Soldier: Joobeur Explores Ghosts of War
Matriarchs confronted by their radicalized children have slowly and painstaking formed a cinematic subgenre of...
The Momentum Fellowship: Raven Jackson, Sing J. Lee, Laura Moss & D. Smith Among 2024 Fellows
Featured prominently among the coverage from our media outlet, eight filmmakers in Raven Jackson (All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt), Savanah Leaf (Earth Mama),...
Interview: Jane Casey Modderno / Here for the Weekend – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
After crafting half a dozen shorts and adding to her repertoire with recent social platform/television writing on horror series like "The Birch" followed by...
Gloria! | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Music of the Heart: Vicario Pays Symphonic Homage to Erased History
Composer Margherita Vicario makes her directorial debut with Gloria!, a period piece recuperating a...
Interview: Francesca Canepa & Miguel Ángel Papalini / La Otra Orilla – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
Prior to embarking on the writing journey for La Otra Orilla, a project supported by the CNC folks, Peruvian filmmaker Francesca Canepa premiered her...
Foreign Tongue (Langue étrangère) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Tongues Untied: Love Lies Easy in Burger’s Cross Culture Coming of Age Drama
There’s a lot going on in Claire Burger’s third film, Foreign Tongue...
Raíz (Through Rocks and Clouds) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
A Walk in the Clouds: Becerra Mines Escapism and Innocence in Quiet Drama
A dwindling group of alpaca herders find themselves on the verge...
My New Friends (Les gens d’à côté) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Your Friends & Neighbors: Téchiné Tries for Ethical Sentiments
Now in his eighties, director André Téchiné continues his steady, perennial output with the humanist melodrama...
Dying (Sterben) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Family Matters: Glasner’s Sprawling Portrait of Chaotic Dysfunction
Exemplifying Tolstoy’s famous Anna Karenina quote on ‘every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,’ German...
Some Rain Must Fall | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Mistress of Misery: Yang Explores the Turmoil of Transformation
Here comes the rain again, falling on her head like a tragedy. Or so is the...
Reas | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Caged Birds Singing: Arias Re-enacts Prison Experiences
If Orange is the New Black was being workshopped as a community theater musical, it might resemble something...
My Summer with Irène | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Summertime Sadness: Sironi Escapes to Sicily in Oblique Friendship Drama
There’s no running away from the past, no matter how glorious the sun dappled idyll...
Arcadia | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
None of Us Strangers: Zois Probes Unrest of Our Shadows
“It is a defect of God’s humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to...
From Hilde, With Love | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Germany, Pale Mother: Dresen Locates the Good Germans of WWII
It comes as no surprise an old-fashioned director such Andreas Dresen is adept at making...
My Favorite Cake | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Layer Cake: Moghaddam & Sanaeeha Find Love in a Hopeless Place
If ever there were a film depicting how one cannot have their cake and...
The Editorial Office | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
The Winds of War: Bondarchuk Straddles a World On a Wire
While it should play like an absurdist black comedy, Roman Bondarchuk’s sophomore narrative feature...
Interview: Alexandra Qin – Thirstygirl (Short)
In our recently published Top 10 short films of 2024 Sundance Film Festival, we identified Thirstygirl - an intimate, candid, taboo-free ten-minute travelogue and...
Metrograph Pictures Pitches Up Tent: India Donaldson’s “Good One” Set for Summer Release
One of the critically best-ranked films (according to Indiewire's Critics Poll - and our publication) to break out of this year's Sundance becomes the...
Interview: Numan Acar – The Suitcase (short)
After more or less a solid decade of notable parts in multiple languages (most notably Fatih Akin's 2017 In the Fade), seasoned German-Turkish actor...
Off Set: 2023 Red Sea Film Festival Portrait Series – Dear Jassi
At the 2023 edition of the Red Sea Film Festival (3rd edition), we had the pleasure of teaming with photographer Joel Ryan for this...
Interview: Tarsem Singh – Dear Jassi
There is a moment in Dear Jassi where the film tonally comes to a halt. A psychologically disturbing full stop that should come as...
Interview: Kantarama Gahigiri – Terra Mater – Mother Land (Short)
In what could be best described as a slideshow formatted collection of smartly composed frames moving from apocalyptic awe to a grounded retrogress, Kantarama...
Interview: Àlex Lora Cercós – The Masterpiece (La Gran Obra) (Short)
Known for a cinema that tackles social issues via the fiction and documentary feature form, it's after the release of his debut fiction feature...
2024 Sundance Film Festival: Alexandra Qin’s Thirstygirl & Kate Jean Hollowell’s Say Hi After You Die Lead Our Top Ten Short Films
We watched, we came and we conquered. 12,098 shorts were submitted for the 2024 edition of the Sundance Film Festival and of that, only...
Perdidos en la noche (Lost in the Night) | Review
Night Moves: Escalante Cultivates a Moody, Capricious Mystery
Replete with a slew of customary features encountered in a fatalistic film noir, Amat Escalante’s fifth feature,...
Interview: Amat Escalante – Lost in the Night
From the very onset with his feature debut Sangre (2005), filmmaker Amat Escalante has proposed a cinema of provocation that simultaneously critiques corruption and...
Autumn in Belgium: Dardenne Bros. & Laura Wandel Currently Prepping Next Projects
If the shooting schedule remains intact, we can circle a 2025 Cannes Film Festival playdate for the next Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne film project...
Interview: Tran Anh Hung – The Taste of Things
In the Cannes Best Director-winning, The Taste of Things (aka The Pot-au-Feu) the passage of time is measured in teaspoons, tablespoons and table manners....
The Taste of Things | Review
Where’s the Beef?: Tran Anh Hung Activates the Salivary Glands
Gastronomy has never seemed so forlornly romantic as it is in Tran Anh Hung’s sumptuous...
Perfect Days | Review
Road to Nowhere: Wenders Welcomes the Pleasures of a Simple Life in Quiet Drama
In his most successfully realized narrative feature in years, Wim Wenders...
Disco Boy | Review
Mal Travaille: Abbruzzese Finds the Rhythm of the Night in Hypnotic Debut
“E’en hell hath its peculiar laws,” remarked Faust in Goethe’s eternal classic, the...
Grey Bees | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
Life During Wartime: Dmytro Moiseiev Chronicles Everyday Survival In Donbass Before Russia’s Invasion
How did life go on for people living in the grey zone...
Steppenwolf | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
Move Over John Wick: Adilkhan Yerzhanov Unleashes A Bloody Tale Of Vengeance In His Latest Feature
Bleak, bloody, and bullet-riddled, the latest from prolific Kazakh...
Exclusive: Clip for André Téchiné’s My New Friends (2024 Berlinale)
Today we feature an exclusive clip of veteran French filmmaker André Téchiné's latest oeuvre in My New Friends (aka Les Gens d’à côté) which...
