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The Next Best Picture Podcast: Episode 479 – BAFTA & Spirit Award Winner Predictions, CDG & MUAHS Winners, “Omaha” & “Rose Of Nevada” Trailers
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For Episode 479, Dan Bayer and Giovanni Lago join me to discuss the 2026 CDG and MUAHS guild winners this week, and give our predictions for the BAFTA and Film Independent Spirit Award winners. We also reveal your nominations for the 2025 NBP Film Community Awards. For last week’s poll, we...
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‘Dao’ Review: Alain Gomis’s Family Saga Is a Whirling Dervish of Messy Emotions
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Gomis’s sixth feature suggests a less sardonic version of one of Robert Altman’s hangout movies. The post ‘Dao’ Review: Alain Gomis’s Family Saga Is a Whirling Dervish of Messy Emotions appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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“BLACK BURNS FAST”
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THE STORY – Seventeen-year-old Luthando, adorkable, bookish and forever drifting between reality and her vivid inner world, returns for another year at a prestigious South African all-girls’ boarding school. The place is governed by a conservative culture where reputation is everything,...
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Berlinale Review: Alain Gomis’ Dao is a Riveting Family Saga
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To belong to the diaspora is to inhabit a paradox: a state of in-betweenness, neither fully inside or outside one’s home and adoptive countries. Films trying to map that condition also tend to feel somewhat “suspended,” populated as they are...
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“PARADISE”
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THE STORY – In Ghana, Kojo is a teenager torn between the freedom of the streets of Accra and the traditional values of his father, a fisherman. Then, during a storm, his father disappears at sea. Devastated and short on money,...
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Rosebush Pruning | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
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The Killing of a Sacred Dogtooth: Ainouz Paints with Contempt Karim Aïnouz doesn’t so much eat the rich as he does regurgitate them in his latest feature, Rosebush Pruning, a hyper stylized rehash of Marco Bellocchio’s breakout classic, Fists in...
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Berlinale Review: Rosebush Pruning is a Maximalist, Muddled Attempt at Cinematic Transgression
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Moulding cruel or nihilistic characters into darkly attractive protagonists requires a deceptively delicate touch. We’ve grown so used to seeing it done effortlessly that a movie like Rosebush Pruning can perhaps be some useful reminder of how difficult it is...
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2026 Qumra Masters: Alice Diop, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Ambulante’s Gael García Bernal + Diego Luna & Gustavo Santaolalla
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Every edition, the Doha Film Institute lands some bold global filmmaker folk to offer mentorship and masterclasses for the next generation of filmmakers and this year’s Qumra have selected the likes of Alice Diop, who gave us the masterwork Saint...
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Nightborn | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
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Only Mothers Left Alive: Bergholm Tackles Motherhood Malaise Finnish director Hanna Bergholm adds to the subgenre of motherhood body horror with Nightborn (Yön Lapsi), an arguably more contained palette than her 2022 debut Hatching, which similarly dealt with female body image...
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“ALLEGRO PASTELL”
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THE STORY – Allegro Pastell tells the story of a long-distance relationship that is almost flawless. At its core lie the individual perceptions of two lovers who have mostly had things go their way and who seem to have everything under control....
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