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A poem. A song. An argument. An apology. Inspired by the unfortunate tragedy of a police special guard who killed a student in the Exarchia district of Athens, a seemingly ordinary (final) day of a teenager is the basis for...

With his fourth feature film, Andrea Pallaoro turns his fascination with isolation, fractured identity and the difficult mechanics of human connection toward a story of love, addiction and control. Without the safety net of working on his screenplay, the works...

For his seventh feature film, Korean master filmmaker Lee Chang-dong’s presents an even slower burn than his previous, 2018 master work Burning. One year after fellow South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook brought his portrait of a working man navigating a...

The Cannes Film Festival’s La Résidence is welcoming Anna Llargués Muñoz, Vytautas Katkus, Sam Manacsa, Ananth Subramaniam, Agustina Sánchez Gavier, and Dorian Jespers to their 52nd session. It’s a major helping hand in the development of what, for the most...

Excursion‘s Una Gunjak, How to Have Sex‘s Molly Manning Walker & My Wonderful Stranger‘s Johanna Pyykkö are among the half dozen filmmakers who have been selected to take part of the Cannes Critics’ Week’s Next Step Vol.II. The filmmakers will...

We’ve been long fans of this Panamanian-American indie filmmaker from her half dozen short films (especially Gregory Go Boom) that focused on failure, alienation, discomfort with a collection of deeply flawed characters. She made her feature debut with Lemon in...

A filmmaker who has in just two feature films (and her promising third offering) demonstrated a knack for boundary-pushing portraits that thematically explore violence, power and domination, gender, sexuality and the body, her cinema and television work favors wide compositions,...

Eight American indie films that are in post production will be heading to the beautiful city of Wrocław for this year’s US in Progress — the co-production forum (17th to 19th November) that is part of the 17th TAURON American...

Among the press and public activities at this year’s TIFF, the Laika studio folks set up shop (cosmically presented at the Portland Square Gallery) in Toronto offering a first glimpse with an exhibition promoting the release of animated stop-motion feature...

Nelson Lowry, Deborah Cook and Brad Schiff are three of the key craft heads behind LAIKA’s distinctive stop-motion aesthetic, bringing together production design, costume design and animation. Lowry has been LAIKA’s production designer dating back to ParaNorman (2012), Cook, the...