Ioncinema

Long before Bergman’s Persona undertook its psychological and existential excavation of selfhood, cinema had already been preoccupied for nearly a century with the blurring and fragmentation of identity; in its latest iteration, this enduring fascination resurfaces once again when a...

Exploring the intimate intersections of family, memory, and social constraint, often focusing on characters caught between personal desire and inherited structures, we first met with Lebanese filmmaker Mounia Akl back with Venice and Toronto Intl. Film Festival selected Costa Brava,...

The ARTE France Cinéma committee have thrown some pre-Holiday cheers towards some international co-productions that will for the most part begin filming next year for A-list film festival drops in 2027 and at the top of the list we find...

Schools of Survival: Gornostai Probes the Resiliency of Ukraine’s Education System During Wartime Despite reflecting the distressing normalization of wartime on an entire generation of Ukraine’s youth, there’s a semblance of hopefulness in Kateryna Gornostai’s Timestamp, a documentary which was...

Entering the third phase of her creative evolution, Antonia Campbell-Hughes transitioned from fashion into nearly two decades in front of the camera (we think back to the Cannes preemed The Other Side of Sleep and Bright Star) before stepping decisively...

A filmmaker who has emerged as one of the an important post-2010 Indian independent film movement, he cut his teeth on Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) and Ugly (2013) to move into socially grounded, humanist cinema that explores caste, class, and marginalized...

The official mascot of Singapore represents a visual melting pot of Western and Eastern cultures. The Merlion represents the duality of this city-state. In Amoeba, Siyou Tan‘s vibrant debut, conformity is tested with rebellion — but not the overt acts...

Rooted in an observational, character-driven approach, Zamo Mkhwanazi‘s work explores intimate moments drawn from lived experience, focusing on how ordinary routines reveal larger social and personal truths. In Laundry (a TIFF world premiere that was a competition title at the...

The Berlinale will be unveiling their titles over the next couple of weeks and this morning we have the first items selected for the Panorama section and we find American indie tandem Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson presenting Mouse (starring...

The Oscars have announced the shortlists in 12 categories for the upcoming 98th ceremony. Wicked: For Good and Sinners topped the list with eight mentions each across different categories. Frankenstein followed closely with six mentions, while Sirât, One Battle After...