Tag: top-stories
Hysteria | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Burn After Filming: Büyükatalay Explores Colliding Perspectives in Nuanced Drama
While it can’t be described as a classic thriller, Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s sophomore film Hysteria...
Ari | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Murmur of the Heart: Serraille Conquers Indifference Through Sincerity
With her third feature, Ari, director Léonor Serraille confirms a clear pattern of interest in exploring...
The Best Mother in the World (A melhor mãe do mundo) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Life is Beautiful: Muylaert Takes Aim at Domestic Abuse in Heartfelt Drama
In A melhor mãe do mundo (The Best Mother in the World), the...
The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Devil May Care: Bucio’s Tantalizing Premise Fizzles Out
With an enigmatic premise and a formidably morbid title, Ernesto Martinez Bucio’s debut The Devil Smokes...
Interview: Jeff Nichols – The Passenger, Stella Maris, Land of Opportunity, The Yankee Comandante
Before Jeff Nichols took the indie film world (with Take Shelter) by storm—both literally and figuratively—he made his mark with Shotgun Stories (premiered at...
Hot Milk | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
The Eternal Daughter: Lenkiewicz Ladles the Milk of Sorrows
Screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz makes her directorial debut with Hot Milk, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s comically...
Maine Stay: Mubi Falls For Oliver Hermanus’ “The History of Sound”
The History of Sound, the highly anticipated feature love story featuring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor has found a home. Oliver Hermanus who directed...
The Good Sister (Schwesterherz) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Sister, My Sister: Fischer Tests the Moral Fibers of Familial Bonds
An ethical dilemma curdles in the heart of Sarah Miro Fischer’s directorial debut Schwesterherz...
Little Trouble Girls | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival 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...
Living the Land | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Land of Steady Habits: Meng Reflects Familial Upheaval in Quiet Saga
“Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go...
Home Sweet Home | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Sofie, Homemaker: Petersen Banks on Undervalued Emotional Labor
Danish director Frelle Petersen’s latest title Home Sweet Home (Hjem kaere hjem) aims to showcase the significant...
Interview: Matthew Rankin – Universal Language (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
Imagine Tim Hortons' signage were comically flipped from right to left, or the face on Canada’s banknote replaced with the haunting image of Louis...
Das Licht | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Wasting Electricity: Tykwer Illuminates a Narrative Void
Despite revealing itself to be an interconnected rumination on aspects of the soul, Tom Tykwer’s Das Licht (The...
Exclusive Trailer: Frelle Petersen’s “Home Sweet Home” – 2025 Berlinale
The 75th edition of the Berlinale begins today and tomorrow, on Valentine's day, is the world premiere to Frelle Petersen's Home Sweet Home (Hjem...
Interview: Producer Sylvain Corbeil – Universal Language (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
Marking his second decade as a film producer, I had the opportunity to sit down with Montreal-based Sylvain Corbeil at the 2024 Marrakech International...
Exclusive Clip & Poster: We Count to Three in Iván Fund’s El mensaje (The Message)
With festival premieres at Cannes (2010's Los Labios in the Un Certain Regard) and Venice (2021's Dusk Stone in the Giornate degli Autori section),...
Interview: Mo Harawe – The Village Next To Paradise (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
After being feted for his short film oeuvres at prestige fests such as the Berlinale and Locarno, Mo Harawe premiered his feature debut at...
Exclusive Clip: How We Create Images Questioned in Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s “Hysteria”
After premiering his debut feature Oray at the Berlinale in 2019 with Oray (winner of the best first feature award), German-based filmmaker Mehmet Akif...
Interview: Alexandra Qin – Thirstygirl / 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
She wowed us (and Sundance programmers) with the short film (check out our Top 10 Short Films From Sundance 2024 article) on which this...
Interview: Chloe Sarbib – Trou Normand / 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
We had the chance to speak to a small sampling of this year's Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellows and among them we found Chloe Sarbib,...
Interview: Katla Sólnes – Eruption / 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
We had the chance to speak to a small sampling of this year's Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellows and first up was a filmmaker from...
Parthenope | Review
The Boring & Beautiful: Sorrentino’s Tone Deaf Portrait of a Lady
It’s unfortunate no one’s as likely to be infatuated with the eponymous Parthenope (pronounced...
Bring Them Down | Review
Everybody Hurts: All Pain and No Gain in Christopher Andrews’ Debut Bring Them Down
If misery loves company, then Bring Them Down is a party....
Interview: Natalia León – Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado (2025 Sundance Short)
A touching, sober, political and poignant text on femicide, Mexican filmmaker Natalia León's debut Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado plunges us...
All That Glitter: Raffey Cassidy, Eva Green, Ben Whishaw & Alessandro Nivola Set for Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ “Diamond Shitter”
Antonia Campbell-Hughes made the jump ionto feature filmmaking with 2022's It Is In Us All and she is now laying the groundwork for her...
Interview: Dominic Yarabe – Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune (2025 Sundance Short)
Flush with this overall sense that story emerges from the psyche and the shadows, storytelling is passed down for fear of being lost in...
Best of Sundance 2025?: Eva Victor’s “Sorry, Baby” & Geeta Gandbhir’s “The Perfect Neighbor” Top Critics Chart
We imagine it'll be extra champagne uncorking for some of the A24 folks who landed the film for a cool 8 million dollars -...
Interview: Gerardo Coello Escalante & Amandine Thomas – SUSANA (2025 Sundance Short)
Of all the major film festivals, it's perhaps the Sundance folks who have built the deepest ties with the filmmaker community and much of...
Interview: Yuxuan Ethan Wu – Death Education (2025 Sundance Short)
Among the select few documentary short films chosen for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival is Death Education, a poignant story set in China in...
2025 Sundance Film Festival: Jianjie Lin, Lennert Madou & Dominic Yarabe Among Our Top Shorts
For the second consecutive year, we reviewed all the shorts from the eight program lineups that make up the Short Film selections and narrowed...
2025 Sundance Film Festival: Hailey Gates’ Atropia is the Surprise Win for the U.S. Grand Jury Prize
The acerbic war film comedy that doesn't really take place in a war zone (Iraq) but instead, a manufactured training base landed the top...
Marcello Mio | Review
In the Name of the Father: Honore Pays Homage via Identity Crisis
“I only exist when I am working on a film,” Marcello Mastroianni...
Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) | 2025 Sundance Film Festival 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 | 2025 Sundance Film Festival 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...
DJ Ahmet | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review
All DJs, Great and Small: Unkovski’s Debut Can’t Stop the Music
While its location might feel inherently unique, the happenings in Georgi M. Unkovski’s narrative...
2025 Sundance Video Diaries Days 1-3: April, Twinless, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Atropia & More!
One of the only two films selected for the Spotlight section (films that have premiered elsewhere on the festival circuit), Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili...
The Things You Kill | 2025 Sundance Film Festival 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...
2025 Sundance: Mary Bronstein, Amalia Ulman, Bryn Chainey, Hailey Gates & Eva Victor in our Top 5 Most Anticipated
We’re just moments away from the 41st edition of the Sundance Film Festival. This marks our 18th time attending the iconic American indie supply...
2025 Berlinale: Linklater, Hadžihalilović, Sangsoo, Gabriel Mascaro, Michel Franco, Vivian Qu & Mary Bronstein in Comp
Nineteen features in competition, Artistic Director Tricia Tuttle loaded up on some mainstay auteurs with the likes of Richard Linklater, Michel Franco, Hong Sangsoo,...
I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui) | Review
Still Missing: Salles Returns with Survivors of the Dictatorship
“The dictatorship’s mistakes was to torture but not kill,” former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro proudly claimed...
2025 January Screenwriters Lab: Lana Wilson, Diffan Sina Norman & Alexandra Qin Among Fellows
A pair of filmmakers who we thought struck gold with their Sundance shorts last year (read our top ten short film best of fest...
The Substance | Review
Woman of Substance: Fargeat Rejuvenates Body Horror with Pulpy Parable
To borrow a succinct phrase from Beyonce, ‘pretty hurts,’ a sentiment quivering through Coraline Fargeat’s...
Joy Division: Camille Razat, Elsa Zylberstein & Lyna Khoudri Topline Mounia Meddour’s Drama Romance
After her break-out female empowerment portraits in the Cannes Un Certain Regard selected Papicha (2019) and Houria (2022), Franco-Algerian filmmaker Mounia Meddour is moving...
2025 Berlinale: Jeanette Nordahl, Anna Muylaert, Amalia Ulman & Fernando Eimbcke Join Line-ups
Days before we find out who'll compete for the Golden Bear, we've got programmes such as Panorama and Berlinale Special that have been filled-up....
Sexual Misorientation: Hamaguchi Prepping Paris-Shoot ‘Our Apprenticeship’
Back in May we had learned that Ryusuke Hamaguchi was revisiting with a feature film project that would bring us to Paris and it...
A Different Land: Renate Reinsve & Sebastian Stan Re-team for Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Fjord’
A Different Man pairing of Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan will resurface once again for 2026 with Romanian master filmmaker Cristian Mungiu moving over...
Snowed In: Quentin Dupieux Enlists Exarchopoulos, Leklou & Kiberlain for ‘L’Accident de piano’
Quentin Dupieux had enlisted alumni Adèle Exarchopoulos and then add-ons Sandrine Kiberlain and Karim Leklou for L'Accident de piano (formerly L'Avant-dernière séance). As per...
Je danse le mia: How to Have Sex Actress to Topline Claire Denis’ ‘Le Cri Des Gardes’
Mia McKenna-Bruce, the face of Molly Manning Walker's Un Certain Regard section winning How to Have Sex will take over some big shoes in...
2025 Sundance: Celine Song, Daniel Kaluuya, Kevin Macdonald & Elijah Wood Among Jury Folks
Lots of Sundance alumni will be trekking back to Park City next week with the likes of Past Song's Celine Song, Daniel Kaluuya, Kevin...
Interview: Nora El Hourch – HLM Pussy (Sisterhood)
Selected for TIFF's Platform section (Toronto's only competition section), French-born filmmaker Nora El Hourch pulled from some of her own narrative for her high...
