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Part of a new wave of Egyptian filmmakers testing genre waters, Morad Mostafa builds from 2023 short “I Promise You Paradise,” to once again work on an intimate scale putting light on the lives of marginalized communities—often migrants, domestic workers,...

The quartet of first and second feature film projects highlighted by the Gan Film Foundation have been unveiled and we have a pair worth tracking for a 2026 release and another two that will likely be showcased in ’27. Films...

Walter Thompson-Hernández, Kogonada and Makoto Nagahisa are just some of the alluring unique filmmaker talents working on the type of cinema that you can’t always easily define as one thing. Working from a project he workshopped in the Sundance labs,...

Lots of familiar Park City faces are among the fiction and non-fiction heavyweights that make up the Premieres section. Josephine Decker brings Chasing Summer – Iliza Shlesinger toplines the film that takes place in a small Texas backdrop. David Wain...

Catch the Fair One‘s Josef Kubota Wladyka, Sometimes I Think About Dying‘s Rachel Lambert and Soft & Quiet‘s Beth de Araújo are among the ten filmmakers heading into U.S. Dramatic Competition section at next year’s Sundance Film Festival. They’ll all...

Myrsini Aristidou, Visar Morina and Suzanne Andrews Correa are among the ten filmmakers selected for World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Cyprus born filmmaker Myrsini Aristidou has been workshopping her feature debut for some time now (she was selected for Sundance in...

In a Child’s Name: Ben Hania’s Grueling Portrait of Genocide It’s the responsibility of artists to use their platforms as a mechanism to speak truth to power. When it comes to cinema, an art form whose blows are sometimes lessened...

In Dreams: Gan Explores a Century of the Cinematic Syndrome We are such stuff as dreams (and celluloid) are made on, according to the sumptuous third film Resurrection from Bi Gan. The title is itself something of a misnomer, concerned...

With her sweeping and ambitious fourth feature, Palestine 36, Annemarie Jacir gives emotional weight to the history books, excavating the roots of nearly a century of loss, injustice, and colonial brutality. Through interwoven stories of villagers, laborers, and intellectuals, she...

Circles of Perfection: Djukić Surveys the Compromises of Sexual Awakening Taking its title from the 1995 Sonic Youth track Little Trouble Girls (Kaj ti je deklica), Slovenian director Urška Djukić’s narrative debut explores the familiar but astute sexual awakening of...