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Scandar Copti’s Happy Holidays, Damian Kocur’s Under The Volcano, Silvina Schnicer’s The Cottage and Mo Harawe’s The Village Next to Paradise shared the awards handed out at the 21st edition of the Marrakech Intl. Film Festival. Happy Holidays grabbed the...

The True Story of a Racist Gang: Kurzel Explores Formative Chapter of American Domestic Terrorism There’s a brooding, sinister quality to Justin Kurzel’s filmmaking, whose body of work almost always deals with, either directly or indirectly, the dangerous combination of...

Pieces of a Man: Schrader Explores Atonement in Toned Down Adaptation Throughout his illustrious career as a director and screenwriter, Paul Schrader has specialized in crafting characters, most often men, wracked with guilt and anxiety, searching for forgiveness. His twenty-fourth...

All About My Mother: Amy Adams Goes to the Dogs In Marielle Heller’s Barking Mad Dramedy “Motherhood is fucking brutal,” Amy Adams’ unnamed Mother seethes in Nightbitch. Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel Yodel’s novel is a fiery challenge of society’s...

Casa de los Babys: von Horn Hits a Bleak Streak You know you’re in for something dark and dreary when a film opens upon a character in a world where despair has coagulated into grim apathy. Such is the case...

That Time of the Month: Halla Offers Ringside Seats to the Courts – Both On and Off In one’s timeline, it’s the pre-adulthood teenage years that ought to be a moment to learn not curb your enthusiasm. Self-expression, embracing the...

Way of the Gun: Rasoulof’s Bold, Blunt Indictment of Iranian Regime There’s been little opportunity for artists to clearly or critically speak truth to power in post-revolutionary Iran, where filmmakers and actors are often censored through brute force. Anything considered...

(Disem)Body Talk: Guadagnino Pays Homage to the Paradoxical Beat Pariah If Ayn Rand had dared to write a character who was a genius gay white male unable to reconcile his hedonistic tendencies and is thus thrown out of the heavenly...

The results of the third Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2024 have been unveiled and among the batch of filmmakers we find the likes of Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (Four Daughters) who firmly moved back into fiction with Tu...

Songs from the Specious Floor: Larrain Imagines the Last Days of a Diva A penny for the thoughts of Maria Callas regarding Pablo Larraín’s glossy recuperation of her last week of life in Maria, the third in a series of...