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Sam Green‘s 32 Sounds took the top honor of Best Feature at the 2024 Cinema Eye Honors Awards. Will this acknowledgement help raise the film’s profile for next week’s Oscar voting? The doc which premiered at the 2022 edition of...

Sixteen fellows with a dozen projects (out of 3,400 submissions) will be headed to the mythic bunk beds and cabin life of Utah just prior to the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. Here their words on paper will be tested, tried...

Every few years, a notable new Turkish filmmaker emerges, and in this instance, we find Selman Nacar floating to the top of major film fests. Front-loaded with moral and legal quandaries, Hesitation Wound (Tereddüt Çizgisi) blurs the lines, seamlessly intertwining...

When the balance of the universe is disturbed, the hierarchy of nature’s totem can be reconfigured. If the earth’s creatures are more closely attuned to possible upheaval, the less fortunate to deal with chaos theory might actually be those who...

The Berlinale has revealed the lineup of its Co-Production Market and we’ve got some projects we’ll be keeping a close eye on. At the top of our interest list, we find Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro (Medeas, Hannah, Monica), Stonewalling tandem...

Unifrance’s Gilles Pélisson and Executive Director Daniela Elstner announced the selections for the 14th edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival (the online film fest dedicated to promoting French language cinema and make it available across multiple channels, subtitled languages and just about every...

Once Upon a Time in Chile: Haberle Crafts Colonialist Past as a Vicious Western A quote from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia opens Felipe Gálvez’s sinister debut The Settlers (Los Colonos), referring to wolves turning on the sheep. Thus begins a complex...

Set in Amman and in an unjust, severely outdated legal system where archaic rules are meant to keep in place the gender divide (here the inheritance law forgets that women exist), Inshallah A Boy (which premiered in the Cannes Critics’...

Cutting her teeth on the short form for just over a decade with award-winning trio of films which have premiered at Rotterdam, the Berlinale and mostly recently the 2023 edition of TIFF with Les Patins, Swiss-Moroccan filmmaker Halima Ouardiri moves...

Post masterwork Pacifiction (read review), it appears that Spanish filmmaker Albert Serra will stick to murky politics and scope once again for what is indeed his English-language project debut. If Kristen Stewart is available, then this would indeed be the...