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Our Winner Predictions For The 2026 Film Independent Spirit Awards
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The winners of the 41st annual Film Independent Spirit Awards (SPIRIT) will be announced on Sunday, February 15th, honoring the best in independent film from 2025. Here are the winner predictions from some members of the Next Best Picture team....
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Now Playing: BY DESIGN, CRIME 101, GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON’T DIE
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Also in theaters: 'Wuthering Heights,' 'Cold Storage,' 'The Mortuary Assistant.' Plus, on VOD: 'Broken Bird' and 'Sweetness.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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In a Whisper | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
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A Death in the Family: Bouzid Explores the Tolls of Open Secrets What’s most expertly encapsulated in Tunisian filmmaker Leyla Bouzid’s third feature In a Whisper (À voix basse) is the quiet cruelty of the closet, the apparently immortal mechanism...
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Cashiers Du Cinéma Editors on Programming Their BAM Series and Celebrating Cinema Workers
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Cashiers Du Cinéma, the madcap comic zine that examines the lives of movie theater employees, has programmed a new ten-film series kicking off at BAM this Friday. The series includes arthouse standard-bearers like Goodbye, Dragon Inn and Cinema Paradiso, but...
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I Understand Your Displeasure | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
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In the Realm of Defenses: Friedrich Examines Turmoils of the Working Class Even in the democratic and social federal state of contemporary Germany, all is not sublime in the low-wage sector, relayed with an agonizing spasm in director Kilian Armando...
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Friday One Sheet: ROSE OF NEVADA
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Featuring neither flowers nor the desert state of America, Rose of Nevada is a deeply authentic, and thoroughly strange time-travel fishing movie that is mainly drama, but, as the red typesetting suggests, with elements of dread and horror. The credits...
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Legendary Director Haile Gerima Returns in Exclusive Trailer for Black Lions – Roman Wolves, Premiering at Berlinale
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Ethiopian director Haile Gerima, a guiding figure in the L.A. Rebellion movement with such films as Bush Mama and Ashes and Embers, is returning with his first work in nearly two decades, one itself three decades in the making. Black...
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Iván & Hadoum | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
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Love Audit: de la Rosa Defies the Odds with Star-Crossed Lovers Much like the shifting ideals and hard won identities defining the protagonists of Ian de la Rosa’s directorial debut Iván & Hadoum, the nexus of clashing intersections symbolically defines...
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Love and Monsters: Three Films to Enjoy on Valentine’s Day
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On three haunting films to watch this holiday.
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Available Light 2026 Review: CARIBOU COUNTRY (Wədzįh Nəne’), Exemplary Arthouse Activism
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There are oh so many, singular, memorable images in Luke Gleeson’s Wədzįh Nəne’ (aka Caribou Country). The film is so beautiful, and meditative in its execution, that it is almost possible to forget that it is a call to action...
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