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Over half a year has passed since the Sundance Film Festival U.S Dramatic Competition titles played at the final Park City edition of the festival. Our last check in over four months ago saw only four titles that had secured...

Seven films in and all features have premiered in Cannes, Buenos Aires born filmmaker Lisandro Alonso has alongside the likes of Lucrecia Martel and Pablo Trapero been at the forefront of the New Argentine Cinema movement. Known for minimalist “slow...

Austria were in a bit of a pickle situation with three potential frontrunners for the 2027 Oscar race. They had Cannes competition item Gentle Monster (backed by Netflix), Un Certain Regard winner Everytime (1-2 Special) and then we have Berlinale...

At long last we found a home (the New York Film Fest’s Currents section) for Carlos Reygadas‘ latest work (formerly titled Wake of Umbra) has arrived. Clocking in at precisely two and a half hours, Heil Jupiter! was perhaps so...

Here Comes the Train Again: Sang-ho’s Live Action Debut Heavy on Tropes Zombie contagion sweeps over South Korea while a random band of survivors struggle to remain on a train racing from Seoul to Busan as the undead take over,...

The final titles have trickled in for the 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival and we can now confirm what are Telluride updates, and the only film to hit the major four fests of the fall – this after being selected...

The Story of O: Schoenbrun Approaches the Horrific Desire Inside Us All The inextricable union of victim, victimizer, and witness becomes a metatextual balancing act in Jane Schoenbrun’s formidable third film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a gonzo...

It’s been almost a decade between fiction feature films for Argentinian filmmaker Iván Granovsky, who premiered Los territorios at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2017. Prior to this, 2011’s documentary-fiction hybrid Glorious Accidents (co-directed with Marcus Lindeen) was his...

In a rather lengthy profile piece we learnt that fresh from his brilliant Berlinale winner The Blue Trail (read review), Gabriel Mascaro is opening a production co. in his backyard of Recife, Brazil. Alongside Paula Cosenza, Trema will be focusing...

Last year, the Midnight Madness section received one heck of a thumbs up with Obsession landing a massive distribution deal. This edition, programmer Peter Kuplowsky has unveiled ten mostly blood-soaked oddities with a trio of North American premieres and seven...