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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...

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...