Tag: top-stories
Exclusive Clip: The Harvest of a Relationship in Ian de la Rosa’s ‘Iván & Hadoum’ – 2026 Berlinale
Spanish filmmaker Ian de la Rosa makes his big entry onto the film festival circuit with Iván & Hadoum - a TorinoFilmLab workshopped project...
Interview: Hasan Hidi – The President’s Cake
Earlier this year, first-time filmmaker Hasan Hadi arrived in Cannes, conquered the Croisette landing the coveted Caméra d'Or prize and the newly minted Directors'...
Interview: Óliver Laxe – Sirāt
In his debut You Are All Captains (2010), Óliver Laxe blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction, probing questions of authorship and control, with...
Interview: Óliver Laxe – Sirāt (2025 Marrakech International Film Festival)
Óliver Laxe has been on a whirlwind promotional tour for his fourth feature ever since it premiered to thunderous critical acclaim at the Cannes...
Sirat | Review
A Bridge Too Far: Laxe Enters the Zone
“The Zone wants to be respected. Otherwise it will punish.” Aleksandr Kayadonvsky’s line from Tarkovsky’s existential sci-fi...
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: Andy & Carolyn London – 1981 (Short Film) 2026 Sundance Film Festival
Set against the awkwardness of early adolescence, 8 minuter 1981 plunges the viewer into a moment when curiosity, fear, and desire collide without warning....
Closure | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review
Seriousness Sensationalized: Marczak Uses a Father in Turmoil to Showcase His Style
The winding, seemingly endless Vistula River, the longest in Poland (and ninth longest...
Nuisance Bear | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review
Creature Discomfort: Docu Explores the Long Rift Between Neighbors
Adding to the docu sub-genre of our ecological collapse, more of an observational docu than indictment,...
2026 Sundance: Beth de Araújo’s ‘Josephine’ Doubles Down Lands Grand Jury & Audience Award Prizes
Following a thunderous world premiere, Beth de Araújo’s sophomore feature quickly emerged as Park City favorite, confirming the narrative we had anticipated. Josephine was...
Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review
Strictly Soft Gloom: Wladyka's Bereft Bliss Puts Spotlight on Rinko Kikuchi
Healing comes in baby steps — and dance steps in Josef Kubota Wladyka’s warm...
Birds of War | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review
Soaringly Bittersweet: Boulos & Alkader Habak Fall in Love Amidst their Homeland’s Turmoil
How can anything else hold your focus when you’re watching your country...
Everybody to Kenmure Street | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review
Good Neighbours: Sierra Highlights Glasgow’s Proud Grassroots Protesting History with Endearing Yet Slight Doc
With immigration unlikely to fade as a pressing issue in the...
TheyDream | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review
Frames That Mend: Caballero Unevenly Probes Puerto Rican Family Grief
Grief is never linear; it reshapes us as we grow and changes after loss, often...
All About the Money | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review
From Massachusetts with Love: O’Shea Explores the U.S Wealth Divide Through One Man’s Utopian Experiment
A docu surrounding a hot button topic in both modern...
2026 Oscars: ‘Sinners’ Lands Most Noms, but ‘One Battle After Another’ & ‘Sentimental Value’ are the Frontrunners
It was a great morning for the folks at Warner Bros. A really solid morning. With a record-breaking sixteen nominations, Ryan Coogler's Sinners might...
2026 Oscars: Trier, Filho, Panahi, Laxe & Hania Nominated for Best International Feature Film
The NEON folks have four Cannes competition film horses in the race and the Venice Film Festival's Silver Lion winner completes the quintet of...
You BETcha!: ‘Josephine’, ‘Carousel’ & ‘Union County’ Are Top Contenders for Sundance’s U.S. Dramatic Comp Grand Jury Prize
This year’s Sundance YouBETcha!, where we guess the odds for the films most likely to win the Grand Jury Prize seems to only be...
2026 Berlinale: Mundruczó, Çatak, Aïnouz, Schleinzer, Dulude-de Celles, Anthony Chen, Lance Hammer in Golden Bear Comp
There is a lot of unpack here with the official competition offerings which consists of two international premieres and twenty world premieres for a...
2026 Berlinale: Rafael Manuel, Liz Sargent & Dara Van Dusen Debut Films in Perspectives Programme
Last year's first iteration had the likes of Kahlil Joseph's BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, Arnaud Dufeys and Charlotte Devillers' On vous croit and Urška...
2026 Lumières Awards: François Ozon’s ‘The Stranger’ Sweeps “France’s Golden Globes” with Trio of Awards
Five weeks before the César Awards ceremony, we find The Stranger (aka L'étranger) possibly emerging as the possible favorite with François Ozon landing Best...
2026 ICS: ‘One Battle After Another’ Finds the Rendezvous Point — Nabs Dozen Noms
Leading with a dozen noms, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another nunchuked the hell out of the upcoming International Cinephile Society awards landing...
2026 European Film Awards: ‘Sentimental Value’ Wins Big while Laxe’s ‘Sirāt’ Nabs Five!
It was perhaps poetic justice for the "2nd place" Cannes Film Festival winner, as Juliette Binoche who handed out the Palme d'Or to Jafar...
2026 Screenwriters Lab Fellows: Eleven Projects Selected Including Sarah Friedland’s ‘The Queue’
The Sundance Institute have unveiled the 2026 Screenwriters Lab (January) and Screenwriters Intensive (March) Fellows with a total of eleven projects (A whopping 3,800...
Sound of Falling | Review
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Schilinksi Paints a Microcosm of Misogyny
The original title of Mascha Schilinski’s sophomore feature was The Doctor...
2026 Berlinale: Nicolás Pereda, Joko Anwar, Ralitza Petrova, Rithy Panh & James Benning in Forum
Rithy Panh looks at Cambodia’s lucrative trade in CO2 certificates and losing the forest in docu Nous sommes les fruits de la forêt, Joko...
2026 Berlinale: Teodora Ana Mihai, Ulrike Ottinger, Hong Sangsoo, Gabe Klinger & Jérémy Comte Selected
Just before they unveil the titles competing for the Golden Bear, we now have a proper overview of some of the other savoury items...
Maldoror | Review
Investigation of a Citizen Under Suspicion: Du Welz Revisits Bungled Belgian Murder Case
“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is...
The Ten Golden Globes Narratives That Will Define the 2026 Oscars
Nomination ballots are being filled out today, and with exactly sixty-two days to go until the Academy Awards, last night’s Golden Globes have already...
2026 Berlinale Co-Production Market: Francisca Alegría, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Klaudia Reynicke, Ivan Grbovic & Amanda Nell Eu Invited!
Francisca Alegría, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Klaudia Reynicke, Ivan Grbovic and Amanda Nell Eu are among the filmmakers who'll be setting up shop for the upcoming...
More Violence: Michel Franco’s ‘Circles’ Getting Ready for Cannes 2026?
Screen have put together 75 titles (many of which will be featured in our most anticipated world cinema list coming next month) and we...
Interview: Albert Birney – Obex (Work in Progress)
After popular (co-signed with Kentucker Audley) feature film projects of Sylvio (2017) and Strawberry Mansion (2021), for his latest solo effort (away from animation),...
Young Mothers (Jeunes mères) | Review
Bonjour Tristesse: The Dardenne Bros. Explore Teenage Pregnancy
In their latest neo-realist exercise on plights of the disenfranchised, the Dardenne Bros. return to gentler themes...
Homegrown | Review
Been Caught Stealing: Premo Watches the Pendulum Swing Right
Utilizing the January 6 United States Capitol attack as the docu’s rousing finale, Homegrown delves deep...
Interview: Ava DuVernay
It wasn’t meant to actively promote anything, but I had a very brief conversation with Ava DuVernay at the Marrakech International Film Festival in...
Interview: Murat Fıratoğlu – One of Those Days When Hemme Dies
As we reflect on the year’s best films, it’s also worth remembering those that made a strong impact on the festival circuit but never...
Interview: Laura Wandel – Adam’s Sake (L’Intérêt d’Adam)
For her sophomore feature, Belgian filmmaker Laura Wandel continues her rigorous exploration of childhood as a site of ethical conflict, institutional pressure, and emotional...
Interview: Boris Lojkine – Souleymane’s Story
After winning the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and the Best Actor award for first-time performer Abou Sangare at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival,...
The Testament of Ann Lee | Review
Shake It Up: Fastvold Envisions the Life’s Work of a Religious Leader
There’s a fervor roiling beneath the surface of Mona Fastvold’s third feature, The...
Interview: Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee
In Mona Fastvold's The Testament of Ann Lee, Amanda Seyfried delivers the kind of performance that is steeped in considerable restraint and conviction, embodying...
No Other Choice | Review
Slay the Competition: Chan-wook Explores the Horrors of Capitalism
In many ways, Donald Westlake’s 1997 novel The Ax feels more relevant than ever, which is...
Interview: Mona Fastvold – The Testament of Ann Lee
Her cinema deals with female interiority under constraint, isolation as both burden and refuge, and working with the human body as a site of...
Father Mother Sister Brother | Review
Terms of Estrangement: Jarmusch’s Amusing Triptych on Familial Labors
If each unhappy family is unhappy in their own way, there are still a wide variety...
Interview: Mounia Akl – Hold Me (If You Want) (Work in Progress)
Exploring the intimate intersections of family, memory, and social constraint, often focusing on characters caught between personal desire and inherited structures, we first met...
