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Crazy On You: Kandhari’s Strange Fantasy of Madness It’s been nearly twenty years since director Karan Kandhari’s 2005 debut Bye Bye Miss Goodnight (since then working on short films and music videos, including Franz Ferdinand’s “Stand on the Horizon”). He’s back with...

The Damned Do Cry: Minervini Details a Doomed Mission For his first narrative feature, Roberto Minervini tackles another aspect of the evolving American identity with The Damned. A period piece depicting a company of volunteer soldiers charged with patrolling and protecting...

After premiering The Nothing Factory in the Directors’ Fortnight section back in 2017, Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Pinho returns to Cannes this time with I Only Rest In The Storm (O riso e a faca) over in the Un Certain Regard...

The Tide is High: Zhangke Splices Thwarted Romance Across Changing Times Filmmaker Jia Zhangke presents something of an experimental anomaly with his latest feature, Caught by the Tides (Feng Liu Yi Dai), spanning two decades of shifting cultural climates and...

Finally, they would have been 22. Thierry Frémaux reportedly received Bi Gan‘s third feature film at the last possible moment and the reason it wasn’t announced during the second wave is because the ever-unpredictable Chinese censors ensured an eleventh-hour type...

Spill the Tea: Sissako Flounders with Tepid Brew The level of ineptitude apparent in every regard of Black Tea, Abderrahmane Sissako’s first narrative feature in a decade, is downright delirious. During its development, the project was known as The Perfumed...

Among the selections found in this year’s Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard line-up we find “Caravan,” Czech filmmaker Zuzana Kirchnerová‘s feature debut. The road trip movie about a mother (actress Aňa Geislerová) and her disabled is said to explore...

Finally one Paris-based project might have leap-frogged another (Our Apprenticeship) as Variety reports that Ryusuke Hamaguchi will direct All of the Sudden – and has Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto toplining. Hamaguchi is in prep mode, Cinefrance International is in...

Familiar to fans of The Office and Silicon Valley, actor Zach Woods will be moving behind the camera for his directorial debut – a new American indie offering in The Accompanist. Deadline reports that Susan Sarandon, Everly Carganilla and Aubrey...

Of the ten projects recently selected to participate at the Marche du Film’s pitch event called the Investors Circle initiative, we placed Flemish Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont‘s third feature film as one of the more anticipated films we’ll be tracking...