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Portuguese/Edinburgh-based filmmaker Laura Carreira wowed the film festival circuit when On Falling premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival 2024 followed by a San Sebastián Film Festival Silver Shell win for Best Director and since then, her feature debut...

The story of Jordan Goudreau, a former Green Beret hired to overthrow Venezuela’s president, descends into a complex debacle where every party is at fault and the truth is subjective. Following the mission’s failure, he becomes a target of his...

Life as a House: Trier Turns Broken Hearts Into Art In Woody Allen’s Interiors (1978), an unhappy tale of three sisters contending with their parents’ divorce, Mary Beth Hurt confronts anguished Geraldine Paige, a mother all-consumed with her abandonment. “I...

We first took note of Quebecois filmmaker Alexandre Dostie with his back to back shorts in the TIFF-premiered short ‘Mutants’ (2016) and the Sundance-showcased ‘I’ll End Up in Jail’ (2019). While awaiting his feature film debut, the hyphenate filmmaker—a poet...

Before the Marrakech Film Festival unveil their 2025 line-up, we have learned the films that are the make up of the Atlas Workshops (November 30th-December 4th) and this year’s patron is none other than master filmmaker Cristian Mungiu. 28 projects...

For his third feature, Ulises Porra embarks on an ambitious cinematic voyage that dives deep into questions of freedom, colonialism, and hybridity. Under the Same Sun (Bajo el mismo sol) revisits early 19th-century Hispaniola — the island now divided between...

After returning to his Romanian roots for Cristian Mungiu’s upcoming Fjord, Sebastian Stan let slip that he will go full Duolingo mode picking up Spanish for Chilean auteur Felipe Gálvez‘s sophomore feature spy thriller project set to move into production...

Images of Yellow Wallpaper: Ramsay Charts a Psychotic Break For her first narrative feature in eight years, Lynne Ramsay returns with Die My Love, based on the 2019 novel by Ariana Harwicz. In essence, it’s a troubling, captivating character study...

Known for her sharp, character-driven films that often explore the complexities of women’s lives, societal expectations, and personal rebellion, Marie Kreutzer‘s 2011 debut Die Vaterlosen and third feature in 2019’s The Ground Beneath My Feet premiered at the Berlinale. It’s...

Sit & Deliver: Lighton Assumes Positions in Titillating Debut There’s a melancholic seductiveness to Pillion, the directorial debut of Harry Lighton, based on the 2020 novella Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. Contemporizing the 1970s set bildungsroman to modern day, it...