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Birds of War | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review
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Soaringly Bittersweet: Boulos & Alkader Habak Fall in Love Amidst their Homeland’s Turmoil How can anything else hold your focus when you’re watching your country unravel before your eyes? There are the type of altruistic people that will happily (and...
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Everybody to Kenmure Street | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review
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Good Neighbours: Sierra Highlights Glasgow’s Proud Grassroots Protesting History with Endearing Yet Slight Doc With immigration unlikely to fade as a pressing issue in the U.K. anytime soon, Chilean-Belgian filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra’s sophomore documentary carries a strong sense of...
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TheyDream | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review
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Frames That Mend: Caballero Unevenly Probes Puerto Rican Family Grief Grief is never linear; it reshapes us as we grow and changes after loss, often leaving us struggling to find the words to express what and how we feel. Exploring...
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All About the Money | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review
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From Massachusetts with Love: O’Shea Explores the U.S Wealth Divide Through One Man’s Utopian Experiment A docu surrounding a hot button topic in both modern America and the rest of the world, All About the Money chronicles a singular personal...
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2026 Oscars: ‘Sinners’ Lands Most Noms, but ‘One Battle After Another’ & ‘Sentimental Value’ are the Frontrunners
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It was a great morning for the folks at Warner Bros. A really solid morning. With a record-breaking sixteen nominations, Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners might have pulled in the most votes, but Paul Thomas Anderson‘s One Battle After Another and Joachim...
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2026 Oscars: Trier, Filho, Panahi, Laxe & Hania Nominated for Best International Feature Film
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The NEON folks have four Cannes competition film horses in the race and the Venice Film Festival’s Silver Lion winner completes the quintet of noms in the Best International Feature Film category. With additional nominations in the Best Picture category...
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You BETcha!: ‘Josephine’, ‘Carousel’ & ‘Union County’ Are Top Contenders for Sundance’s U.S. Dramatic Comp Grand Jury Prize
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This year’s Sundance YouBETcha!, where we guess the odds for the films most likely to win the Grand Jury Prize seems to only be pointing San Francisco Bay Area. Beth De Araújo’s Josephine starring Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan and newcomer...
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Hindsight is 2026: Focus on the Ten U.S. Docu Comp Offerings for Buyers – 2026 Sundance Film Festival
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Yesterday we took a deep dive into the U.S. Dramatic Competition; today, we turn our attention to the U.S. Documentary Competition, looking back at recent history while also peering ahead at the ten titles currently in view for buyers. Last...
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2026 Berlinale: Rafael Manuel, Liz Sargent & Dara Van Dusen Debut Films in Perspectives Programme
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Last year’s first iteration had the likes of Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, Arnaud Dufeys and Charlotte Devillers’ On vous croit and Urška Djukić’s Little Trouble Girls), this year’s batch of thirteen first features (one final title might be...
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2026 Berlinale: Mundruczó, Çatak, Aïnouz, Schleinzer, Dulude-de Celles, Anthony Chen, Lance Hammer in Golden Bear Comp
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There is a lot of unpack here with the official competition offerings which consists of two international premieres and twenty world premieres for a gnarly twenty-two titles vying for the Golden Bear. In what will be a fruitful year of...
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