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We first became aware of South Africa filmmaker Zamo Mkhwanazi’s cinema language with her last short film in the TIFF/Sundance selected Sadla back in 2019. Fast-forward into the middle of this decade and we find a restrained yet deeply affecting...

Marty Supreme marks a new evolution in the work of Josh Safdie, a filmmaker whose auteur signature is defined by nervy momentum, abrasive intimacy, and a deep fascination with dudes in states of self-constructed crisis. I’ve been following Josh and...

Fifty-four short films (and not all world premieres) were selected from a whopping 11,480 submissions to be part of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. We have Park City vets of the short form in the likes of Matthew Puccini (Callback),...

Óliver Laxe has been on a whirlwind promotional tour for his fourth feature ever since it premiered to thunderous critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival this past May. After briefly speaking with him the week prior (see our virtual...

Before he began his maiden voyage into Cannes (being selected for the Un Certain Regard section and winning a Special Mention for the Caméra d’Or – see video coverage), Akinola Davies Jr. showcased his roots with the 2020 short “Lizard”...

Selected for this year’s Directors’ Fortnight, Louise Hémon‘s The Girl In The Snow continues to wow auds — it has now claimed the 2025 André Bazin Prize. The editorial staff of Cahiers du Cinéma essentially hand off a short list...

Part of a new wave of Egyptian filmmakers testing genre waters, Morad Mostafa builds from 2023 short “I Promise You Paradise,” to once again work on an intimate scale putting light on the lives of marginalized communities—often migrants, domestic workers,...

The quartet of first and second feature film projects highlighted by the Gan Film Foundation have been unveiled and we have a pair worth tracking for a 2026 release and another two that will likely be showcased in ’27. Films...

Walter Thompson-Hernández, Kogonada and Makoto Nagahisa are just some of the alluring unique filmmaker talents working on the type of cinema that you can’t always easily define as one thing. Working from a project he workshopped in the Sundance labs,...

Lots of familiar Park City faces are among the fiction and non-fiction heavyweights that make up the Premieres section. Josephine Decker brings Chasing Summer – Iliza Shlesinger toplines the film that takes place in a small Texas backdrop. David Wain...