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In her stunning feature debut (that premiered at Sundance), Swedish filmmaker Isabella Eklöf offered an unflinching and pitiless examination of a drug dealer’s inner circle, presenting a world of psychological and sexual violence with chilling, dispassionate precision. Moving from the...

While the focus for awards season these days is Stateside, but the French will soon begin campaign mode for César Awards and other prestigious items such as the Prix Louis Delluc awards. What might be considered a weak year for...

IONCINEMA.com and Indie Film Site Network partners The Film Stage, Hammer to Nail, Next Best Picture, RogerEbert.com, and Slant Magazine (plus a Letterboxd folks contribution) are extremely proud to announce that My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in...

It’s a Non-Refundable Life: Baumbach Explores the Sacrifices of Fame George Clooney headlines what could be interpreted as an approximation of his own experiences in Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly. Resembling, in many ways, an old-fashioned Hollywood star vehicle exaggerating both...

Back in June we jumped on the news that Bertrand Bonello was potentially setting up shop for the curious sound project Santo Subito! and then out of the blue Mark Ruffalo mentioned that he was joining the auteur…. now the...

It overpowered critics in Telluride, slayed Toronto audiences and has been on a rampage ever since winning audience film festival awards and catapulting itself to the top of the pack in terms of awards season. In Chloé Zhao‘s adaptation of...

Along with France’s Les Arcs Film Festival in December the last major film festival of note on the film festival map is Marrakech. Today the festival unveiled some major titles but our focus tends to go towards the competition offerings....

You can’t get more of a best of the film festival circuit than what the Marrakech International Film Festival is offering this year. Opening with Gus Van Sant‘s Dead Man’s Wire and closing with Annemarie Jacir‘s Palestine 36, we’ve got...

After Once Upon a Time in Indian Country (2017), I Was, I Am, I Will Be (2019), and Stowaway (2021), it’s with 2023’s The Teachers’ Lounge (read ★★★½ review) where German filmmaker İlker Çatak broke out big, first at the...

Earlier this week, the folks at Cineuropa provided details on a debut film project we’ve been tracking due to its producer. This means that in 2026, we can expect not one, but two projects from the Rosselet-Ruiz sisters to be...