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It has to be among the best open-air public spaces at any festival to premiere a film and it also counts as a safe space for some world premiere screenings. Included in the Piazza Grande section, the folks that fill...

We have the first details on the next feature films from a pair of French auteurs who arguably are both coming off what might be their career bests. Xavier Giannoli (2021’s Lost Illusions) and Rebecca Zlotowski (2022’s Other People’s Children)...

Former Pardo d’Oro champs Hong Sangsoo (Right Now, Wrong Then – 2015) and Wang Bing (Mrs. Fang – 2017) will be measuring up against a large swath of Euro films in the prestigious competition section at Locarno next month. Hong...

After the first sextet of titles released back in the middle of June, the Toronto International Film Festival are throwing us another fivesome of film items that come stamped with the World Premiere status stamp with We Live in Time...

After collaborating with the other half of the Blue is the Warmest Color tandem, Quentin Dupieux is re-teaming with actress Adèle Exarchopoulos for L’Avant-dernière séance (English translation: “The Penultimate Session”), set to shoot in early 2025 and likely premiering that...

In what promises to be a vintage 2025 year for auteur cinema, Kantemir Balagov‘s next might also join the fray. Originally titled “Monica” and developed well before the invasion, this English-language debut will be shot in New Jersey and now...

In a creative output that saw her add a harvest of three feature films in the last five years, after 2019’s A Brother’s Love and 2022’a Babysitter we now find Monia Chokri celebrating lightning in a bottle attraction, longing, and...

Heart in the Right Place: Chokri Lets the Body & the Camera Do the Talking in Rom Dramedy French Canadian filmmaker Monia Chokri adds another notch to the bedpost focusing on the romantic relationships we begin and the romantic relationships...

A Touch of Minx: West Concludes Ersatz ‘Trilogy’ with a Moan It’s an impressive endeavor to unleash three consecutive, thematically related films within the span of five years—especially when there was not an original design suggested (or even supported) by...

Oedipus Shrugged: Schanelec Finds Tragedy is the Song That Doesn’t End There’s little use clinging to the description of Angela Schanelec’s latest film Music as being ‘freely adapted from the myth of Oedipus’ as the only players truly blinded are...