Tag: top-stories
Flathead | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
Days And Nights In Bundaberg: Jaydon Martin’s Docu-Fiction Journey Leaves Outsiders Adrift
Falling under an atmospheric shadow of loss and regret, Flathead, the directorial debut...
Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
Camera Crew: Filmmakers Become Family In Farshad Hashemi’s Quietly Defiant Meta-Movie
The problem with being lonely isn’t being alone, it’s how easy it can be...
Swimming Home | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
Marriage Story: Justin Anderson Serves Up An Enigmatic Challenge Is His Feature Debut
A marriage in crisis cooks under the summer sun in filmmaker Justin...
Exclusive: Clip for Carlo Sironi’s My Summer with Irène (2024 Berlinale)
Part of the Generation 14plus selection at the upcoming Berlinale, My Summer with Irène is the highly anticipated sophomore feature by Italian filmmaker Carlo...
Interview: Lila Avilés – Tótem
Among the titles competing for the Golden Bear at the 2023 Berlinale, the sophomore feature by Mexican filmmaker Lila Avilés brims with vitality. It...
Tótem | Review
Life and Death of the Party: Aviles’ Bustling Ensemble Piece Balances Pain & Profundity
Taking place over the course of one frenetic day, Lila...
Under the Fig Trees | Review
Figment of their Imagination: Sehiri’s Baskets Filled with Hope, Humor and Harsh Truths
There is a lot more behind the scenes drama that goes into...
Mambar Pierrette | Review
In Fabric: Mbakam Conveys a Season’s Struggles in Cameroon
“In the ant’s house, the dew is a flood,” might be the proverbial dilemma faced by...
In the Land of Brothers | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
Family of Straw: Amirfazli & Ghasemi Present a Trilogy of Familial Tragedies
The title, of course, is a bitter irony relating to Iran’s self-anointed nickname,...
Malu | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
A Streetcar Named Desejo: Freire Mines Matriarchal Tendencies
Having directed several short films and television series, Brazilian director Pedro Freire unleashes a motherlode of intergenerational...
Exclusive: Clip for Roman Bondarchuk’s The Editorial Office (2024 Berlinale)
We've got an exclusive clip to Ukrainian filmmaker Roman Bondarchuk's The Editorial Office (Redaktsiya) - his sophomore feature film was selected for the Forum...
Veni Vidi Vici | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
Destroy Everything You Touch: Hoesl & Riemann Come to Conquer with Dark Satire
As ABBA once succinctly stated, “Money, money money/Must be funny/In a rich...
Sujo | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
Goodbye Horses: Valadez & Rondero Explore a Valley of Violence
Working as co-directors on their latest feature Sujo, Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero once again...
Interview: Pavia Sidhu & Yugam Sood – Dear Jassi
A tale as old as time, and tragically a tale that was never meant to be. As the true story goes, Jaswinder "Jassi" Kaur...
Origin | Review
Caste of the Unjust: DuVernay’s Scholarly Drama Traces the Universal Social Ills of Hierarchy
For her fifth narrative feature, Origin, Ava DuVernay takes an inventive...
2024 Cinema Eye Honors Awards: Sam Green’s 32 Sounds Lands Best Picture – Oscar Nom Next?
Sam Green's 32 Sounds took the top honor of Best Feature at the 2024 Cinema Eye Honors Awards. Will this acknowledgement help raise the...
2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellows: Dozen Projects & 16 Participants for the Class of ’24
Sixteen fellows with a dozen projects (out of 3,400 submissions) will be headed to the mythic bunk beds and cabin life of Utah just...
Interview: Selman Nacar – Hesitation Wound
Every few years, a notable new Turkish filmmaker emerges, and in this instance, we find Selman Nacar floating to the top of major film...
2024 Berlinale Co-Prod Market: Andrea Pallaoro, Andreas Fontana, Huang Ji & Ryuji Otsuka
The Berlinale has revealed the lineup of its Co-Production Market and we've got some projects we'll be keeping a close eye on. At the...
2024 MyFrenchFilmFestival: “The Beast in the Jungle”, “Junkyard Dog” & Zeno Graton’s “Le Paradis”
Unifrance's Gilles Pélisson and Executive Director Daniela Elstner announced the selections for the 14th edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival (the online film fest dedicated to promoting...
The Settlers | Review
Once Upon a Time in Chile: Haberle Crafts Colonialist Past as a Vicious Western
A quote from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia opens Felipe Gálvez’s sinister...
Interview: Amjad Al Rasheed – Inshallah A Boy
Set in Amman and in an unjust, severely outdated legal system where archaic rules are meant to keep in place the gender divide (here...
Interview: Halima Ouardiri – The Camel Driving School (Work in Progress)
Cutting her teeth on the short form for just over a decade with award-winning trio of films which have premiered at Rotterdam, the Berlinale...
Direct to Video: Léa Seydoux & Co. Learn Their Lines for Quentin Dupieux’s “À notre beau métier”
After a 2023 where he gave us a double bill in Daaaaaali! (read review) and Yannick, Quentin Dupieux is still seeing double. The quartet...
Interview: Gábor Reisz – Explanation for Everything
Winner of the top prize in the Orizzonti section at this year's Venice Film Festival, Gábor Reisz's expansive, multi-viewpoint slow-burn features a deep political...
Ferrari | Review
I Got a Fast Car: Mann Gets Glossy with Longstanding Labor of Love
For his first theatrical release in eight years and his second biopic...
Interview: Kamal Lazraq – Les meutes (Hounds)
Seeping with film noir elements, but working with a naturalism and with a moody underworld thriller genre with a certain dose of spirituality and...
Memory | Review
Remembrance of Things Past: Franco Bargains for Benevolence in Purgative Love Story
“Memory is something so complex that no list of all its attributes could...
A Male (Un Varón) | Review
Wild in the Streets: Hernandez Explores Toxic Trifecta of Violence, Masculinity and Poverty in Dour Debut
With a streetwise miserabilism as virile as anything from...
2023 ARTE France Cinéma: Tarik Saleh’s “Les Aigles de la République” & Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “Secret Agents” on Dock!
ARTE France Cinéma are throwing their support behind the new projects (which will drop in 2025) from Albert Serra, Hafsia Herzi, Kleber Mendonça Filho...
Moscow Mules: Albert Serra Prepping “Out of this World” for Summer 2024 Shoot
Post masterwork Pacifiction (read review), it appears that Spanish filmmaker Albert Serra will stick to murky politics and scope once again for what is...
2024 Berlinale: Julia von Heinz, Tilman Singer, Philippe Lesage, Zellner Bros. & Renck’s Spaceman in Line-up
Berlinale topper Carlo Chatrian is slowly unveiling titles for his final line-up and this morning we've got some stocking stuffers with the first batch...
Personal Services: Naomi Watts, Will Sharpe & Jamie Campbell Bower Among Players in “Emmanuelle”
Earlier this morning Audrey Diwan confirmed the recent news that Naomi Watts has a role in her highly anticipated Emmanuelle, but the French filmmaker...
Interview: Michel Franco – Memory
Unwaveringly dedicated to a cinema of provocation, even if it may appear excessive to more sensitive viewers, auds at the Venice (and Toronto) Film...
2023 Le prix André Bazin: Pham Thiên Ân’s “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” Takes Unique Prize
It's year two for the prix André Bazin by les Cahiers du Cinéma folks and the jury of Albert Serra, Marion Cotillard, Flora Fishbach,...
2023 Gan Film Foundation: Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux’s “La couleuvre noire” & Louise Hémon’s L’engloutie Land Coveted Prize
The Gan Film Foundation has been supporting first and second screenplays for more than three decades now and it's no secret that the majority...
2024 Lumières Awards: Anatomy Of A Fall, The Animal Kingdom, Last Summer & Disco Boy Land Noms
Naturally, all focus and the most nominations would go to Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall (it leads in six categories) but this did...
2024 Berlinale: Jane Schoenbrun, Nora Fingscheidt, Jérémy Clapin & Carmen Jaquier in Panorama Sidebar
The first batch of titles for the Panorama sidebar section for the 2024 Berlin Film Festival were revealed today and we've got a Sundance...
2024 Cannes: Mumblecore to Barbie to the Croisette: Greta Gerwig is Jury President
In a bold, refreshing move, Thierry Frémaux's first decision for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival is likely to be a people-pleaser. Synonymous with mumblecore,...
Poor Things | Review
The Story of O: Lanthimos Mesmerizes with Fiercely Compelling Frankenstein Tale
“Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for...
The Zone of Interest | Review
Verboten Zone: Glazer Returns with Historical Horror
It’s impossible to contemplate Jonathan Glazer’s fourth feature, The Zone of Interest, without referencing Hannah Arendt’s publication on...
2023 Prix Iris: Stéphane Lafleur’s Viking Dominates “Quebec Oscars”
Stéphane Lafleur's masterwork Viking (a 2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival selection) cleaned up in multiple categories including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best...
2024 Sundance: Palme d’Or Winner Flóra Anna Buda, The Procedure’s Carlos A.F. Lopez & Malia Ann Among Short Films Selections
The chances of having your short film selected for Sundance Film Festival's Short Film program is 0.004 percent - which means the lucky 53...
2023 Critics’ Week’s Next Step: Zou Jing, Nans Laborde-Jourdàa & Andrea Slaviček Among Lucky Ten
Nans Laborde-Jourdàa whose short "Bolero" competed at Critics’ Week 2023 and claimed some major wins (we were at the ceremony see below), Chinese filmmaker...
Interview: Edson Jean – Know Me (Work in Progress)
In 2021, Miami-based filmmaker Edson Jean arrives with his SXSW preemed feature debut in Ludi, the story about a Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood based...
2024 Sundance: A Different Man, The Outrun, Winner & Sasquatch Sunset Among Premieres
Sundance Film Festival's Premiere section (a mix of fiction and docs) will have some biggie titles to contend with the likes of Aaron Schimberg's...
2024 Sundance: Scott Cummings’ REALM OF SATAN & Haley Elizabeth Anderson’s Tendaberry Among NEXT Items
Long-time editor (Never Rarely Sometimes Always) and director (Buffalo Juggalos - short) Scott Cummings and a talent to watch in Haley Elizabeth Anderson (Sundance...
2024 Sundance: Michael Dweck, Jeff Zimbalist, Stephen Maing & Brett Story in the U.S. Docu Comp
It'll be highly likely that we'll be talking about these docu films by the end of 2024 - as the cream of the crop...
2024 Sundance: Amachoukeli, Molly Manning Walker, Linklater & Asmae El Moudir in Spotlight Section
The Spotlight section is a quartet of items with two heavy-hitters from the Cannes Un Certain Regard section, a small gem from Cannes' Critics'...
2024 Sundance: Daniel Hoesl, Klaudia Reynicke & Thea Hvistendahl in World Cinema Dramatic Comp
Daniel Hoesl's Veni Vidi Vici, Klaudia Reynicke's Reinas and Thea Hvistendahl's Handling the Undead are among the ten titles selected for the needle in...
