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Shaping up to be one of our most anticipated feature directorial debuts of 2027, Mathieu Volpe‘s transition into fiction arrives with an exceptional producing team behind him and an exciting cast of new faces performers poised to bring his vision...

A small French indie debut that will certainly be offered to Cannes programmers in 2027, after cutting her teeth on the short form and via editing gigs, Marie Loustalot is set to begin production on Enfin seuls. The Cineuropa folks...

For those taking notice, NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim has been increasingly moving towards giving indie studios an extra “option” for their world premiere destinations. Last year, A24’s Marty Supreme snuck into the fest, and this year, Searchlight have two...

It’s been a thrill watching Little Rock, Arkansas native Jeff Nichols evolve into one of the defining voices in American independent cinema. He announced himself with the slow-burning powder keg that was Shotgun Stories (Sundance passed on the film, the...

Son of acclaimed Temur Babluani, Georgian-French filmmaker Géla Babluani blasted out of the gates when his feature debut 13 Tzameti traveled to the Venice Film Festival winning Luigi De Laurentiis Lion of the Future for Best First Feature in 2005...

With Gustave Kervern’s Voilà, c’est fini and Guillaume Nicloux’s Garde du corps set for the near future, Suzanne Lindon has been taking on some acting gigs, but we’re more excited about her return behind the camera. Cineuropa reports that Pierfrancesco...

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?: Refn Returns with Vacuous Vengeance After disappearing into television for the past decade, Nicolas Winding Refn once again rears into the cinema with Her Private Hell, which unfortunately is an insufferable, nonsensical exercise...

I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK: Koreeda Explores Cruise Control with AI Somehow, despite being set in the ‘not too distant future,’ Hirokzau Kore-eda’s twee take on robotic children in Sheep in the Box manages to seem like an anachronistic...

No Man is an Island: Aris Explores Childhood, Couplehood and Parenthood with Flip Book Speeds Lebanese filmmaker Cyril Aris utilizes the three distinct yet related measurements of time elapsed, time apart, and time away to craft an ode to the invisible, happy-chance forces that...

The Killing of a Sacred Dogtooth: Ainouz Paints with Contempt Karim Aïnouz doesn’t so much eat the rich as he does regurgitate them in his latest feature, Rosebush Pruning, a hyper stylized rehash of Marco Bellocchio’s breakout classic, Fists in...