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Earlier this year, first-time filmmaker Hasan Hadi arrived in Cannes, conquered the Croisette landing the coveted Caméra d’Or prize and the newly minted Directors’ Fortnight audience award that Artistic Director Julien Rejl created the year before. Riding the film festival...

Selected Out of Competition for the Venice Film Festival, My Father and Qaddafi digs into repressed memories, collective feelings and brick by brick forging over a lifetime. An excavation of memory, identity, and national amnesia, what Jihan K does here...

Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby is a sharply observed, emotionally incisive work that blends humor with vulnerability to explore the messiness of modern relationships and the type of entanglements that could push just about any human being into a psychological/physical dark...

In his debut You Are All Captains (2010), Óliver Laxe blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction, probing questions of authorship and control, with creative agency at the core. Half a dozen years later, with his sophomore feature Mimosas, he...

Mischief, Thou Art Afoot: Filho Captivates with Seductive, Furtive Period Thriller Pregnant with dread and jam-packed with homage to the tone and time of sweaty, paranoid suspense thrillers of the 1970s, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto)...

Winner of the Best Director and Best Actor prizes at Cannes Film Festival, The Secret Agent brought together Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura for the first time in a collaboration that blends political urgency with cinematic prowess. Set in...

In one of 2025’s most searing dramatic screen performances, Jessie Buckley embodies Agnes (the wife of William Shakespeare) with such fierce passion and unguarded grief that it wouldn’t be unfathomable to think that Chloé Zhao’s filmmaking presence is right beside...

When I was actively watching Kaouther Ben Hania’s devastating The Voice of Hind Rajab (read review), it reminded me Alejandro González Iñárritu’s short film contribution in 11′09″01 September 11 – both oeuvres make us spend a moment on the phone...

For over two decades, Rodrigo Teixeira has been a cornerstone of international auteur cinema, building a reputation as a producer with a discerning eye for literary adaptations and directorial vision. His filmography is a testament to his transatlantic reach, championing...

Unfolding like a psychological seesaw of balanced fear, delusion, and unexpected intimacy—Teddy Gatz has slipped so deeply into conspiracy thinking that it has isolated him, leaving old wounds to surface as either hyper-focus or total disorientation. Michelle, meanwhile, may not...