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She’s Come Undone: Mack Concocts an Empathetic Chaos It’s clear from the opening moments of Jan-Eric Mack’s narrative debut A Happy Family the title is meant ironically, which directly recalls Tolstoy’s iconic opening line in Anna Karenina regarding how each...

The Next Best Thing: Holy Hits the Sweet Spot with Tender Drama There’s a short list of feature length queer films in Czech cinema, and one would have to search even harder for narratives not steeped in despair or defined...

His niche and common threads to his cinema has been the human cost of capitalism, the fallacy of the American dream, and a bit of visibility for those often ignored. Since his modest beginnings with 2005’s Man Push Cart, for...

Exactly tow decades ago, Jasmila Žbanić burst onto the international stage in spectacular fashion, announcing herself as a major new cinematic voice when her debut feature Grbavica captured the ultimate prize—the Golden Bear—at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival. The...

The Venice Production Bridge have unveiled the projects lining up the Venice Gap-Financing Market and we find auteurs such as Mexican filmmaker Lila Avilés, Damian Kocur, Asmae El Moudir and a slew of great auteurs are among the 38 feature-length...

The ARTE France Cinéma committee got behind a trio of works (we expect all these these to be featured in Cannes next year) — two that were on our radar and a first fiction oeuvre by China-Chicago filmmaker already versed...

Yorgos Lanthimos was rumored to be circling the project, but we now learn that Rose Glass will be directing My Year of Rest and Relaxation – Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel on emotional numbness, privilege and self-destruction set just before 9/11 in...

If the movie-going month where we are seeking refuge in an air-conditioned multiplex this July, beyond the usual mix of film festival duds and major event films like The Odyssey, there are also a handful of genuinely offbeat independent gems....

Costa Brava, Lebanon‘s Mounia Akl, Everybody Loves Jeanne‘s Celine Devaux and The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo‘s Diego Céspedes are among the baker’s dozen projects selected for the upcoming Oxbelly writers’ lab retreat. From a whopping 2000 plus submissions, and...

Qatar’s Doha Film Institute has announced the recipients of its 2026 Spring Grants — as usual we focus on fiction feature film projects in three groupings – MENA – Feature Narrative – Development, MENA – Feature Narrative – Production and...