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Blue Marks by German filmmaker Sarah Miro Fischer and The Two Landscapes by Argentinian filmmaker (and recent Berlinale Golden Bear winner) Francisco Lezama have each won two awards in the industry competition sidebar at San Sebastian. Uruguayan-Argnetina based actor turned...

The first batch of titles were announced in August, and now with Locarno and Venice firming up the selection process, we now have our second wave of films. Sixteen feature films (nominations of the European Film Awards will be revealed...

Confirming what we had reported back in April, Variety confirms that Lisandro Alonso‘s next project will indeed be him revisiting the film character we first visited back in 2001’s La libertad. La libertad doble is being mounted by Alonso’s 4L,...

After sliding back into the docu realm, French Canadian filmmaker Geneviève Dulude-De Celles has returned to fiction with Petite rose (formerly titled Fleur bleue) – a co-production between Canada, Belgium and Bugaria. Filming began this week in Montreal. This was...

Recent submissions for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards are quickly piling up. Jordan has entered My Sweet Land (Sheffield DocFest), Switzerland has chosen Klaudia Reynicke’s Reinas (Sundance premiere), the United Kingdom selected Sandhya Suri’s Santosh (Un...

Multiverse of Sadness: Kroger Captivates with Cryptic Cold War Sci-Fi Exploit Although it will invariably be confused with the 2014 Stephen Hawking biopic, Timm Kröger’s fascinating sophomore feature The Universal Theory (Die Theorie Von Allem) blends modern cinema’s excessive obsession...

Atlas Farted: Coppola’s Labor of Love a Lackluster Saga While he’s one of the greatest film directors of all time, mostly thanks to a handful of films he delivered during the 1970s New American Cinema movement, Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating,...

Woman of Substance: Fargeat Rejuvenates Body Horror with Pulpy Parable To borrow a succinct phrase from Beyonce, ‘pretty hurts,’ a sentiment quivering through Coraline Fargeat’s morbidly entertaining sophomore feature, The Substance. Its simplistic title eventually reveals itself to be a...

One of the projects at the Sundance Institute’s 2017 Screenwriters Lab was a film called ‘Omni Loop Blues.’ Flash forward into 2024 and Bernardo Britto‘s Omni Loop premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival and is about to launch theatrically...

Keeping up with her pattern of releasing a film roughly every three years, Kelly Reichardt’s next project, The Mastermind, is one extra America indie auteur item to watch out for and if I were Venice Film Festival’s Alberto Barbera, I’d...