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Five weeks before the César Awards ceremony, we find The Stranger (aka L’étranger) possibly emerging as the possible favorite with François Ozon landing Best Film of 2025 kudos plus the extra golden trimming wins of Best Actor for Benjamin Voisin...

Hindsight is 2026 will focus on Sundance as we look back at some of the top acquisitions from last year’s festival and forward to the films in contention for the top prizes this year. The Sundance sales chart will be...

Leading with a dozen noms, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another nunchuked the hell out of the upcoming International Cinephile Society awards landing a whopping dozen nominations. Not far behind, earning 10 nominations with all its Recife bliss, Kleber...

It was perhaps poetic justice for the “2nd place” Cannes Film Festival winner, as Juliette Binoche who handed out the Palme d’Or to Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident back in may sort of reversed the order giving Joachim...

Known for her poetic visuals, Swedish-Costa Rican filmmaker Nathalie Álvarez Mesén made her first steps onto the film scene with her first trio of shorts in Filip (2015), Asunder (2015) – which was showcased at the Telluride Film Festival’s Calling...

The Sundance Institute have unveiled the 2026 Screenwriters Lab (January) and Screenwriters Intensive (March) Fellows with a total of eleven projects that will get to troubleshoot their projects (on paper) the weekend before the final Park City edition of Sundance....

It’s only the second day of Cannes competition when the sophomore feature from a virtually unknown German filmmaker arrives, creating one of those disorienting moments where you pause to take stock of what’s unfolding on screen, even as you’re not...

Rithy Panh looks at Cambodia’s lucrative trade in CO2 certificates and losing the forest in docu Nous sommes les fruits de la forêt, Joko Anwar offers a supernatural horror-comedy set in a prison with a catchy play on titles in...

Just before they unveil the titles competing for the Golden Bear, we now have a proper overview of some of the other savoury items in the sidebar sections such as the Panorama and Generation Kplus/14plus programmes. Among the highly anticipated...

Investigation of a Citizen Under Suspicion: Du Welz Revisits Bungled Belgian Murder Case “It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!,’ wrote Comte de Lautreamont, aka Isidore...