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Film Festivals Yellow Letters, a domestic drama by İlker Çatak, won the Golden Bear at the 2026 Berlinale, spotlighting artistic dissent while the festival…
Film Festivals A Berlin School director enlarges her lens: Eva Trobish’s Home Stories follows a young singer whose TV audition forces a family to…
Film Festivals Angela Schanelec returns with My Wife Cries, a measured cinematic meditation on desire and loss set against Berlin’s cityscape and premiered at…
Film Festivals Caroline Golum’s second feature, Revelations of Divine Love, premiered at FIDMarseille and will begin a theatrical run in New York on March…
Film Festivals How a handful of boys in Kaduna became The Critics, using DIY filmmaking as escape and expression while evolving into socially engaged…
Film Festivals Four Minus Three, a film about loss and resilience based on Barbara Pachl-Eberhart’s memoir, won the Europa Cinemas Label at the Berlinale…
Film Festivals Caroline Golum’s imaginative biopic about Julian of Norwich, starring Tessa Strain, debuts from Several Futures and begins a limited U.S. theatrical run…
Film Festivals A concise look at New York’s repertory offerings, key venues, and the Raymond Depardon retrospective opening at Film at Lincoln Center on…
Film Festivals Christian Petzold’s latest, Miroirs No. 3, is a Hitchcock-tinged psychodrama featuring Paula Beer; it debuted at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and opens in…
Film Festivals A lively roundtable at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival gathered Oscar-nominated screenwriters to discuss adaptation, risk, and the craft of storytelling
Film Festivals The New African Film Festival returns march 13–26 in Washington, D.C., with 25 films from 18 countries, highlighted by Akinola Davies Jr.'s…
Film Festivals A tender, occasionally kitschy portrait of family, class and place, Anthony Chen’s We Are All Strangers closes his Growing Up trilogy and…
Film Festivals A Parisian physician leaves the city for Tristan da Cunha in Tristan Forever, a contemplative docufiction that examines isolation, community, and personal…
Film Festivals Isabelle Huppert delivers a magnetic, economical turn in Ulrike Ottinger’s lavishly staged vampire fable, which premiered at the 2026 Berlinale
Film Festivals Faraz Shariat’s Prosecution is a propulsive legal thriller about a determined prosecutor who survives a racist attack and digs into archived cases…
Film Festivals Afef Ben Mahmoud takes charge of Gabès Cinéma Fen, connecting local ecological concerns and cross-disciplinary arts, while Doha’s Qumra and broader African…
Film Festivals Patric Chiha's documentary follows Russian exiles in Paris, blending intimate conversation and striking visuals to probe exile, protest and the feeling of…
Film Festivals Amy Adams could not attend the Berlin premiere of 'At the Sea' but sent a heartfelt message; this piece examines the film's…
Film Festivals a thoughtful review of alain gomis’s dao, presented at berlinale, focusing on its themes of diaspora, family dynamics, and cinematic craft (published:…
three Berlinale films confront exile, long-distance family bonds and queer trauma with bold aesthetics and intimate storytelling
Film Festivals Alain Gomis crafts a three-hour, cross-continental portrait of family life that merges myth, memory and improvised performance to examine what it means…
Film Festivals Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson deliver a finely tuned portrait of adolescence, grief and unlikely bonds in 'Mouse,' a film that premiered…
Film Festivals From a 14-year-old breakout to daring physical work and a Silver Bear-winning film, Jamie Bell’s Berlinale history reveals an actor evolving through…
Film Festivals Reinvent Yellow has begun selling the Norwegian family adventure Rocky the Troll at the European Film Market, signaling both confidence in family…
Film Festivals the cashiers du cinéma editors pair comics and cinema in a BAM series that honors the quotidian and the eccentric lives of…