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With her body of work, Franco-Costa Rican filmmaker Valentina Maurel has explored adolescence, female desire, social alienation and fractured family dynamics through a raw, darkly comic lens, and with Forever Your Maternal Animal further digs into the malaise of who...

Lightning strikes twice today – earlier we premiered the poster one sheet, and now we have the full trailer to Bruno Santamaría Razo’s Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building – an official Critics’ Week competition selection. Filmed on...

Among the seven films (six debuts) we find in this year’s Critics’ Week competition line-up we find Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building by filmmaker Bruno Santamaría Razo. The Mexico City born director, writer and cinematographer often blends...

With her sophomore feature High End (formerly known by the far alluring title Diamond Shitter) currently in post-production, Antonia Campbell-Hughes is already preparing to climb back into the saddle with a third feature project—one she already knows intimately. Based on...

Edgar Ramirez, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Annabelle Wallis, Lena Headey, Angeliki Papoulia, Makis Papadimitriou, Spyros Dadanides are among the players who’ll be found in the satirical comedy set on the posh Greek Island of Antiparos — the latest project by Suntan (2016)...

As we inch closer to Cannes, we are learning the film package identities to the ten Investors Circle Initiative and among the hottest items we have The Settlers (Los Colonos) filmmaker Felipe Gálvez‘s high voltage sophomore feature which he wrote...

Making his third trip to the Croisette, Argentina filmmaker Federico Luis follows up his 2019 Palme d’Or competition short La Siesta (The Nap) and 2024’s feature film debut Simón de la Montaña (selected in the Critics’ Week) with his latest...

Allegory of the Tree: Enyedi’s Masterful Meditation on Human Progress The metaphorical subtexts germinating to fruition through Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend are formidable, even as, with humble simplicity, they profess to be enamored with the central figure of a tree....

IONCINEMA.com’s Top 3 Critics’ Picks offers a curated approach to the usual quandary: what would you recommend I see in theaters this month? Sight unseen, this May we have the highly anticipated Backrooms – the A24 project will be launched...

Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we ask the filmmaker (this month: Lucia Aleñar Iglesias) to identify their all time top ten favorite...