Film Festivals Conscious: a cinematic journey into brain, memory and identity
An artist’s feature debut uses three personal stories, scientific perspective and evocative imagery to probe what remains of the self when the…
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Film Festivals Deutsche Bank Frieze LA Film Award honors Joey Bueno Breese while audience selects Devin O’Guinn
Joey Bueno Breese claimed the jury prize for El Rio Nuestro and Devin O'Guinn earned the audience award for Julian during the…
Film Festivals Sofia Coppola follows Marc Jacobs from studio to runway in intimate documentary
Sofia Coppola makes her documentary debut with an intimate portrait of Marc Jacobs, debuting at Venice, screening at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight (Feb…
Film Festivals Trial of Hein trailer: Berlinale Perspectives debut explores memory, belonging and suspicion
Kai Stänicke’s feature debut Trial of Hein uses a remote island setting and a community tribunal to interrogate identity, memory and social…
Film Festivals Koberidze’s Dry Leaf: a feature filmed on a 2008 Sony Ericsson opens at Film at Lincoln Center
Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, made on a 2008 Sony Ericsson W595, is a meditative 186-minute road movie opening at Film at Lincoln…
Film Festivals How Foreign Travel celebrates the transformative power of reading
A Berlinale review that highlights how Ted Fendt’s Foreign Travel uses books and Berlin streets to illuminate the transformative power of reading
Film Festivals Berlinale spotlight: Foreign Travel and the transformative power of books
A Berlinale feature that follows characters who travel mentally through literature, demonstrating how reading reshapes identity and everyday life in Berlin
Film Festivals How Foreign Travel transforms readers through Anna Maria Ortese
A Berlin-set film that follows Leonie and her friends as they live through the unsettling pleasures of reading Anna Maria Ortese, inviting…
Film Festivals How Yellow Letters and festival politics shaped the 2026 Berlinale conversation
At the 2026 Berlinale the Golden Bear for Yellow Letters highlighted the festival’s enduring role as a political stage while prompting heated…
Film Festivals Trial of Hein review: a disciplined debut probing identity and memory
Austere and theatrical, Kai Stänicke’s Trial of Hein stages a return to a remote island to interrogate how memory and community shape…
Film Festivals Ilker Çatak’s Yellow Letters takes Golden Bear as Berlinale wrestles with political controversy
Yellow Letters, a domestic drama by İlker Çatak, won the Golden Bear at the 2026 Berlinale, spotlighting artistic dissent while the festival…
Film Festivals Home Stories review: Eva Trobish’s panoramic leap at the Berlinale
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 My Wife Cries review: Angela Schanelec’s quiet study of love and rupture
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 Trailer drops for Caroline Golum’s Revelations of Divine Love ahead of theatrical dates
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 Inside Crocodile: The Critics, Pietra Brettkelly and the rise of a Kaduna film collective
How a handful of boys in Kaduna became The Critics, using DIY filmmaking as escape and expression while evolving into socially engaged…
Film Festivals Adrian Goiginger’s Four Minus Three earns Europa Cinemas Label in Panorama
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 Revelations of Divine Love trailer: Caroline Golum’s Julian of Norwich biopic heads to U.S. cinemas
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 Explore New York repertory cinema and Raymond Depardon’s work
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 Miroirs No. 3 by Christian Petzold: a haunting new psychodrama with Paula Beer
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 Oscar-nominated screenwriters convene at the Santa Barbara writers panel
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 Washington’s New African Film Festival unveils 22nd edition featuring My Father’s Shadow
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 Anthony Chen’s We Are All Strangers: a portrait of modern Singaporean life
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 Inside Tristan Forever: a doctor’s attempt to belong on Tristan da Cunha
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 dazzles in Ulrike Ottinger’s The Blood Countess at Berlinale
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: a Berlinale courtroom thriller confronting right-wing networks
Faraz Shariat’s Prosecution is a propulsive legal thriller about a determined prosecutor who survives a racist attack and digs into archived cases…