Film Festivals Rachel Taparjan’s something familiar examines adoption, memory and self-authorship
A British Romanian filmmaker guides a mutual search for identity, enlists actresses to stand in for a mother and insists on a…
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Film Festivals Why Undertone’s sound design makes it one of the scariest films
Explore the director’s use of practical audio, festival momentum, and personal loss that shaped Undertone
Film Festivals Spielberg developing a Western with horses and guns
Steven Spielberg hinted at a Western in development at SXSW, mentioning horses, guns and a promise to steer clear of tropes while…
Film Festivals Boots Riley’s fresh satire I Love Boosters premieres at SXSW with Keke Palmer
Boots Riley returns with I Love Boosters, a surreal, fashion-centered caper starring Keke Palmer that opened SXSW and mixes satire, teleportation gags…
Film Festivals Atlas of disappearance: a documentary using forensic tools to unearth Franco-era secrets
A documentary by Manuel Correa blends forensic investigation and intimate testimony to recover names, graves and memories erased during Franco's rule
Film Festivals Inside the New Directors/New Films 55th edition: premieres and highlights
Celebrate bold new voices: 24 features and 10 shorts at New Directors/New Films, with standout entries like Leviticus, Donkey Days, Two Seasons,…
Film Festivals Swiss debut Silent Rebellion takes top honors at Joburg Film Festival
Silent Rebellion secured the Nguni Horn at the 8th Joburg Film Festival, while a range of features, documentaries and shorts from across…
Film Festivals Olivia Delcán’s The Bastard Daughter casts Nora Navas in tragicomic lead
Nora Navas is attached to star in Olivia Delcán’s feature debut The Bastard Daughter, a sharp tragicomedy produced by Solita Films with…
Film Festivals How Gianfranco Rosi maps everyday life under Mount Vesuvius in Pompei: Below the Clouds
A thoughtful portrait of Naples that traces daily routines, civic duties and subterranean histories under the watch of Mount Vesuvius
Film Festivals Repertory screenings and Green Mountain Film Festival must-sees
A compact preview of New York repertory programs, tickets and programming for the 25th Green Mountain Film Festival, and a note on…
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…
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…