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2025 European Film Awards: Tereza Nvotová, Urška Djukić, Mihai Mincan, Laura Carreira & Murat Fıratoğlu Make Shortlist
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From Dag Johan Haugerud‘s Dreams (Sex Love) to Palme d’Or winning It Was Just an Accident by Jafar Panahi to the Silver Lion winner in The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania, the 2025 European Film Awards have...
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Ballad of a Small Player | Review
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Out Of Luck: Colin Farrell Can’t Save This Tale Of A Gambler Gone Bust Is Edward Berger hard of hearing? That might be the first question you ask upon finishing the thunderous Ballad of a Small Player. While the director...
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The Safeword Is…: Isabella Eklöf Launches DOGMA 25 with Bold BDSM Drama ‘MR. NAWASHI’
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Brings out the chips, dip, chains and whips. Production has officially began on filmmaker  Isabella Eklöf‘s third feature film – which officially becomes the first item in the DOGMA 25 canon. The provocatrice filmmaker known for her breakout in the...
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Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s ‘The Beloved’ (El ser querido) – Everything We Know So Far …
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Madrid-born filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen has been working in both television and film for nearly two decades. He rose to prominence with 2018’s El Reino (The Realm), a political thriller that swept several Goya Awards (Spain’s Oscars) including Best Director and...
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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You | Review
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You’ll Like My Mother: Bronstein Lets Us Feel the Byrne Motherhood approaches the verge of the horrific in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, the irrepressibly stressful sophomore film from director Mary Bronstein. A spot-on ensemble led by Rose...
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Interview: Mihai Mincan – Milk Teeth (Dinți de lapte)
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Fusing a country’s psychological rift and political shift alongside a truly complex character study that explores innocence loss, absence and community disillusionment, in Milk Teeth (Dinți de lapte) Romanian filmmaker Mihai Mincan poses the question of what is left behind...
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The Hyperboreans | Review
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From the Land of Ice and Snow: Cocina & Leon Pursue Hermetical Cinematic Spell To say the latest feature from the experimentally inclined Chilean directing duo Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña is unclassifiable would be something of an understatement, delving...
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Interview: Carolina Cavalli – The Kidnapping of Arabella
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Using the road-movie narrative template to explore an unconventional form of companionship, The Kidnapping of Arabella is far from a typical coming-of-age film — in fact, it might be better described as a “coming out-of-age” journey. One of your first...
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A House of Dynamite | Review
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On a Nuclear Day You Can See Forever: Bigelow’s Living in a Powder-keg, Giving Off Sparks With the doomsday clock adjusted to eighty-nine seconds to midnight at the dawn of 2025, something like Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film, A House of...
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2025 Critics’ Week Next Step II Programme: Felipe Galvez, Graham Foy, Cristele Alves Meira, Mikko Myllylahti & Michael Borodin Selected
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Cannes’ Critics’ Week has unveiled the seven international filmmakers and three composers who are headed to Corsica for the third edition of its Next Step II programme. The Settlers‘ Felipe Galvez, The Maiden’s Graham Foy, Alma Viva’s Cristele Alves Meira,...
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