The 2024 announcement of Mia Hansen-Løve’s If Love Should Die had us hoping for a late-2025 premiere. As 2026 enters its final months we can admit that some things in life, as this writer-director has often explored, go unfulfilled. But...
Jelena Maksimović's fiction-feature debut, set to world premiere in the 83rd Venice International Film Festival's Orizzonti competition, follows two young people divided by politics but united by a desire for freedom. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
Only briefly does Nanni Moretti grace the screen in It Will Happen Tonight. Not that he has to, strictly speaking: his presence hovers above the film like a ghost, never more vividly than when the camera lingers on his stand-in,...
THE STORY – The overly confident Fujino and the shut-in Kyomoto couldn’t be more different, but a love of drawing manga brings these two small-town girls together. THE CAST – Natsuki Deguchi, Aju Makita, Furi Nanase, and Rokka Okada THE...
Broken Heart Art: Kore-eda Builds Bittersweet Elegy to Friendship Art is both the impetus for destruction and creation in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest, Look Back, a live-action adaptation of the 2024 animated film of the same title (based on the manga...
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at The Prodigy's Wild Frontier, directed by Mascha Halberstad. If you aren't Dutch Mascha Halberstad might need an introduction,...
Much of the talk at the Toronto International Film Festival revolves around the feature films, but the Short Cuts programme can offer the most bang for your buck in terms of a festival experience. Split into seven programmes, including the...
THE STORY – An environmental and Indigenous rights activist from the Karen group is killed after protesting the forced eviction of his village from a protected forest. THE CAST – Awat Ratanapintha, Pakapol Srirongmuang, Waywiree Ittianunkul & Thanatwut Rodpai THE...