Ioncinema

Exclusive Clip: How We Create Images Questioned in Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s “Hysteria”
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After premiering his debut feature Oray at the Berlinale in 2019 with Oray (winner of the best first feature award), German-based filmmaker Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay returns with his sophomore feature titled Hysteria. A suspense conspiracy thriller using the meta world...
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Interview: Dea Kulumbegashvili – April
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After making its debut at the Venice Film Festival and touring other prestigious autumn festivals like Toronto, San Sebastian, London BFI, and NYFF, it was at Sundance where I finally had the opportunity to speak with Dea Kulumbegashvili about what...
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Interview: Alexandra Qin – Thirstygirl / 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
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She wowed us (and Sundance programmers) with the short film (check out our Top 10 Short Films From Sundance 2024 article) on which this narrative is based on, and prior to being selected as a Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow, Thirstygirl,...
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Interview: Chloe Sarbib – Trou Normand / 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
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We had the chance to speak to a small sampling of this year’s Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellows and among them we found Chloe Sarbib, an American-French-Algerian filmmaker current professor at Montclair State University (previously taught at Columbia) and who comes...
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Interview: Katla Sólnes – Eruption / 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
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We had the chance to speak to a small sampling of this year’s Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellows and first up was a filmmaker from Iceland and a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA film program in Katla Sólnes. After completed a...
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Parthenope | Review
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The Boring & Beautiful: Sorrentino’s Tone Deaf Portrait of a Lady It’s unfortunate no one’s as likely to be infatuated with the eponymous Parthenope (pronounced like ‘Penelope’) as Paolo Sorrentino, utilizing the myth of the failed siren as subtext for...
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Bring Them Down | Review
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Everybody Hurts: All Pain and No Gain in Christopher Andrews’ Debut Bring Them Down If misery loves company, then Bring Them Down is a party. The feature debut by Christopher Andrews is set in a dour and desolate vision of...
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Interview: Natalia León – Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado (2025 Sundance Short)
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A touching, sober, political and poignant text on femicide, Mexican filmmaker Natalia León‘s debut Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado plunges us into two times, two versions of self as Olivia returns back to her Mexican hometown, seeking...
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All That Glitter: Raffey Cassidy, Eva Green, Ben Whishaw & Alessandro Nivola Set for Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ “Diamond Shitter”
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Antonia Campbell-Hughes made the jump ionto feature filmmaking with 2022’s It Is In Us All and she is now laying the groundwork for her upcoming sophomore feature and has lassoed quite the ensemble. Deadline reports that that The Brutalist‘s Raffey...
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Interview: Dominic Yarabe – Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune (2025 Sundance Short)
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Flush with this overall sense that story emerges from the psyche and the shadows, storytelling is passed down for fear of being lost in Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune – a short highly personal and imaginative docu...
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