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Once again, the Gala Québec Cinéma’s Prix IRIS (the “Quebec Oscars”) has released a muddled field of nominations, awkwardly grouping standout 2024 films with a fresh crop of 2025 premieres. Taking place on December 7th, we’ll certainly find a bunch...

Federico Luis from Argentina and Maksym Nakonechnyi from Ukraine are among the six young filmmakers chosen for the Festival de Cannes Residency in Paris. Luis’s film Simon of the Mountain was selected for Critics’ Week in 2024, and Nakonechnyi’s Butterfly...

Hearts of Glass: Hadžihalilović Casts a Wintry Spell A chilly scene of winter unfolds in La Tour de Glace (The Ice Tower) at a glacial pace, content with shattering itself into pieces for those desiring to get anywhere near it....

Poland’s American Film Festival (November 6 to the 11th) have announced the lucky nine projects that will participate in this year’s US in Progress in Warsaw and Wrocław. Fiction projects in final stages of editing come to Poland to essentially...

Raging Lull: Safdie Pays Homage to a Trailblazer The ultimate purpose of The Smashing Machine, the latest film from Benny Safdie, is to give credit where credit is due, paying tribute to mixed martial artist and UFC fighter Mark Kerr,...

After being in the awards conversation in previous years with Poor Things and A Complete Unknown, Searchlight Pictures are looking to be a part of the conversation once again. With Rental Family and Is This Thing On? has perhaps long-shot...

Coined as a “musical fantasia of a city under duress,” Rami Malek is making a return to American indie and Rebecca Hall makes it two for two with Ira Sachs stepping into a new genre with The Man I Love....

Currently on an extended promotional tour since winning in Cannes with The Secret Agent (read review), Kleber Mendonça Filho will essentially easter egg or prequel from his fabulous docus Pictures of Ghosts – taking viewers back to 1930’s Recife. In...

Fresh off winning the Grand Jury Prize in Venice for The Voice of Hind Rajab (read review), Kaouther Ben Hania has shifted directly to her next project, Mimesis, which is now in production. The Cineuropa folks confirm that the film...

Absurdist auteur par excellence, Quentin Dupieux has thrown us some clapperboard proof that Kristen Stewart, Woody Harrelson, Emma Mackey, Charlotte Le Bon, Nassim Lyes, Tim Heidecker and (re-teaming with Wrong Cops) Eric Wareheim are part of the ensemble for his...