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Leaning heavily on world premieres, TIFF’s 2026 Short Cuts programme welcomes back familiar names such as Yung Chang, Shaunak Sen and Zarrar Kahn while shining a spotlight on the next generation of emerging filmmakers. Docu filmmaker Yung Chang is transitioning...

As expected there was going to be a larger Cannes (including Quinzaine) cross-over than a Venice presence at this year’s NYFF. While the Palme d’Or winner will be headed to Telluride and TIFF only, gems such as The Diary of...

As expected there was going to be a larger Cannes (including Quinzaine) cross-over than a Venice presence at this year’s NYFF. While the Palme d’Or winner will be headed to Telluride and TIFF only, gems such as The Diary of...

Programming-wise, we expected a bit more of a copy-and-paste approach from Venice to Toronto this year. Instead, documentary programmer Thom Powers largely prioritized world premieres and Canuck female filmmakers, passing over several filmmakers whose latest works are headed to the...

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)’s Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) has unveiled the 20 projects to receive a little coin help to develop their next feature film projects and among the filmmakers we find Dominican filmmaker Nelson Carlo de los...

A sprinkling of Cannes, Locarno and Venice with a major awards contender from Sundance (and Directors’ Fornight) in Once Upon a Time in Harlem are among the eleven feature film selections in the Wavelengths programme, Curated by Andréa Picard, we...

Loads of savoury Cannes Film Festival titles, two dozen world premiere items, with some Venice Film Festival notables from Muayad Alayan, Rami Kodeih, Yonfan, May el-Toukhy, Manuel Wetscher and Rubaiyat Hossain are part of the line-up for the Centerpiece TIFF...

Some Monday sleuthing from the folks at World of Reel again pin points to a totally under tha radar project mounted by David Lowery — who might be returning to his distinctly micro-indie independent filmmaking roots with a more intimate,...

A Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur Fellowship winner before she decided to move behind the camera, after Kelly Reichardt and Eliza Hittman, we add American playwright turned filmmaker Annie Baker to the list of filmmakers find hidden drama in ordinary...

Known for working in themes of emotional or physical isolation featuring pockets of people (sometimes ordinary Austrians) with his fiction and docu film POVs looking at hidden obsessions, hypocrisies, religious extremism, and sexual desires — there is a beautiful ick...