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Catch the Fair One‘s Josef Kubota Wladyka, Sometimes I Think About Dying‘s Rachel Lambert and Soft & Quiet‘s Beth de Araújo are among the ten filmmakers heading into U.S. Dramatic Competition section at next year’s Sundance Film Festival. They’ll all...

Myrsini Aristidou, Visar Morina and Suzanne Andrews Correa are among the ten filmmakers selected for World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Cyprus born filmmaker Myrsini Aristidou has been workshopping her feature debut for some time now (she was selected for Sundance in...

In a Child’s Name: Ben Hania’s Grueling Portrait of Genocide It’s the responsibility of artists to use their platforms as a mechanism to speak truth to power. When it comes to cinema, an art form whose blows are sometimes lessened...

In Dreams: Gan Explores a Century of the Cinematic Syndrome We are such stuff as dreams (and celluloid) are made on, according to the sumptuous third film Resurrection from Bi Gan. The title is itself something of a misnomer, concerned...

With her sweeping and ambitious fourth feature, Palestine 36, Annemarie Jacir gives emotional weight to the history books, excavating the roots of nearly a century of loss, injustice, and colonial brutality. Through interwoven stories of villagers, laborers, and intellectuals, she...

Circles of Perfection: Djukić Surveys the Compromises of Sexual Awakening Taking its title from the 1995 Sonic Youth track Little Trouble Girls (Kaj ti je deklica), Slovenian director Urška Djukić’s narrative debut explores the familiar but astute sexual awakening of...

The Long Goodbye: Sorrentino Returns to Familiar Remembrances of Things Past Paolo Sorrentino reunites with his onscreen alter ego Toni Servillo in La Grazia for yet another odyssey on regret from the vantage point of one’s golden years. Arguably a...

Over the course of their three feature films, Gaza-born filmmaker twins Tarzan and Arab Nassar have built a body of cinema rooted in the textures, contradictions, and lived realities of the place that shaped them. Their latest, Once Upon a...

From Tarik Selah’s Boy from Heaven (2022) to the recent Jonathan Millet’s Ghost Trail (2024), Tawfeek Barhom has the kind of face that stays etched in memory. As the world (Barhom included) awaits for Terrence Malick’s The Way of the...

Sometimes, in a landscape where censorship and endless approvals are the norm, following your creative instincts means thinking differently and finding ways to work outside the system just to remain part of it. Premiering at the Venice Film Festival this...