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No Good Men | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Up Close & Personal: Sadat Subverts the Spotlight in Stellar Melodrama In her third directorial feature, No Good Men, which is part of a five...

Mexico 86 | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

Coup de Madre: Díaz Revisits Violent Turmoils with Intimate Familial Drama Director César Díaz continues his cinematic exploration of Guatemala’s brutal civil war, considered the...

Exclusive Clip: Bérénice Béjo is Fight-or-Flight in César Díaz’s Mexico 86

Winner of the prestigious Caméra d'Or in 2019 for his debut Our Mothers (we were on hand - check out our coverage) Guatemalan filmmaker...

Interview: César Díaz – Our Mothers (Nuestras Madres)

Directed by Guatamalan filmmaker César Diaz, Our Mothers premiered at Cannes Critics' Week section and took home the top prize for a first time...

The Orphanage | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review

Back in the U.S.S.R.: Sadat Goes Back to Soviet-Ruled Afghanistan in Amiable Sophomore Film Following the success of her celebrated 2016 debut, Wolf and Sheep,...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #91. The Orphanage – Shahrbanoo Sadat

The Orphanage Afghan writer-director Shahrbanoo Sadat should be ready with her sophomore feature The Orphanage in 2019. Produced through Katja Adomeit of Adomeit Film, the...

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Pompei: Below the Clouds | Review

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