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A sprinkling of Cannes, Locarno and Venice with a major awards contender from Sundance (and Directors’ Fornight) in Once Upon a Time in Harlem are among the eleven feature film selections in the Wavelengths programme, Curated by Andréa Picard, we...

Loads of savoury Cannes Film Festival titles, two dozen world premiere items, with some Venice Film Festival notables from Muayad Alayan, Rami Kodeih, Yonfan, May el-Toukhy, Manuel Wetscher and Rubaiyat Hossain are part of the line-up for the Centerpiece TIFF...

Some Monday sleuthing from the folks at World of Reel again pin points to a totally under tha radar project mounted by David Lowery — who might be returning to his distinctly micro-indie independent filmmaking roots with a more intimate,...

A Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur Fellowship winner before she decided to move behind the camera, after Kelly Reichardt and Eliza Hittman, we add American playwright turned filmmaker Annie Baker to the list of filmmakers find hidden drama in ordinary...

Known for working in themes of emotional or physical isolation featuring pockets of people (sometimes ordinary Austrians) with his fiction and docu film POVs looking at hidden obsessions, hypocrisies, religious extremism, and sexual desires — there is a beautiful ick...

Shaping up to be one of our most anticipated feature directorial debuts of 2027, Mathieu Volpe‘s transition into fiction arrives with an exceptional producing team behind him and an exciting cast of new faces performers poised to bring his vision...

A small French indie debut that will certainly be offered to Cannes programmers in 2027, after cutting her teeth on the short form and via editing gigs, Marie Loustalot is set to begin production on Enfin seuls. The Cineuropa folks...

For those taking notice, NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim has been increasingly moving towards giving indie studios an extra “option” for their world premiere destinations. Last year, A24’s Marty Supreme snuck into the fest, and this year, Searchlight have two...

It’s been a thrill watching Little Rock, Arkansas native Jeff Nichols evolve into one of the defining voices in American independent cinema. He announced himself with the slow-burning powder keg that was Shotgun Stories (Sundance passed on the film, the...

Son of acclaimed Temur Babluani, Georgian-French filmmaker Géla Babluani blasted out of the gates when his feature debut 13 Tzameti traveled to the Venice Film Festival winning Luigi De Laurentiis Lion of the Future for Best First Feature in 2005...