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This year’s Sundance YouBETcha!, where we guess the odds for the films most likely to win the Grand Jury Prize seems to only be pointing San Francisco Bay Area. Beth De Araújo’s Josephine starring Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan and newcomer...

Yesterday we took a deep dive into the U.S. Dramatic Competition; today, we turn our attention to the U.S. Documentary Competition, looking back at recent history while also peering ahead at the ten titles currently in view for buyers. Last...

Last year’s first iteration had the likes of Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, Arnaud Dufeys and Charlotte Devillers’ On vous croit and Urška Djukić’s Little Trouble Girls), this year’s batch of thirteen first features (one final title might be...

There is a lot of unpack here with the official competition offerings which consists of two international premieres and twenty world premieres for a gnarly twenty-two titles vying for the Golden Bear. In what will be a fruitful year of...

Five weeks before the César Awards ceremony, we find The Stranger (aka L’étranger) possibly emerging as the possible favorite with François Ozon landing Best Film of 2025 kudos plus the extra golden trimming wins of Best Actor for Benjamin Voisin...

Hindsight is 2026 will focus on Sundance as we look back at some of the top acquisitions from last year’s festival and forward to the films in contention for the top prizes this year. The Sundance sales chart will be...

Leading with a dozen noms, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another nunchuked the hell out of the upcoming International Cinephile Society awards landing a whopping dozen nominations. Not far behind, earning 10 nominations with all its Recife bliss, Kleber...

It was perhaps poetic justice for the “2nd place” Cannes Film Festival winner, as Juliette Binoche who handed out the Palme d’Or to Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident back in may sort of reversed the order giving Joachim...

Known for her poetic visuals, Swedish-Costa Rican filmmaker Nathalie Álvarez Mesén made her first steps onto the film scene with her first trio of shorts in Filip (2015), Asunder (2015) – which was showcased at the Telluride Film Festival’s Calling...

The Sundance Institute have unveiled the 2026 Screenwriters Lab (January) and Screenwriters Intensive (March) Fellows with a total of eleven projects that will get to troubleshoot their projects (on paper) the weekend before the final Park City edition of Sundance....