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The majority of the Cannes Film Festival lineup is set to be revealed on April 11th, however, before we delve into the films that might make it into the Main Competition and Un Certain Regard sections, let’s first speculate on...

The Screen Daily folks have unveiled the projects and participants for TorinoFilmLab’s 2024 ScriptLab and of the 16 projects (of the 700 plus submissions it’s an eight debut, five sophomore and three third features breakdown) we find the likes of...

The huge winner of the last Un Certain Regard section in Molly Manning Walker (watch the award’s ceremony below for the craziest ever acceptance below) is among the half dozen participants for what is essentially an incubator of sorts (and...

Desert Fury: Sen Gets Bleak in the Heat of a Cold Case Mystery Despite it being the title of innumerable films from around the world, Limbo happens to feel like the most felicitous description for Indigenous Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen’s...

Before we put our focus on the upcoming edition of the Cannes Film Festival, we look back at our coverage of the Berlinale – a competition that many would agree was subpar and sidebar selections that did indeed offer some...

The Polite Stuff: Lu Searches for Redemption Through the Walking & Talking Cure In the strangely alluring The Shadowless Tower, (Bai Ta Zhi Guang) the fourteenth feature from Korean-Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lü, a handful of characters search for a more...

The Prime of Miss Jean Foodie: Hausner Satirizes Cult Behavior Through Caloric Deficit Expanding on the genre sentiments which guided her past titles Hotel (2004) and Little Joe (2018), Austrian director Jessica Hausner‘s latest playfully examines how a toxic mixture...

Ali Abbasi brought her on as a casting director and as fate would have it Zar Amir Ebrahimi would go onto land the role that was originally not meant for her (as a journalist trying to solve serial murders of...

Into the Woods: Lesage Explores Wounded Masculinities In Vincent Sherman’s 1943 Bette Davis-led melodrama Old Acquaintance, the complex relationship between a pair of female frenemies becomes increasingly complicated throughout their lifetime. Resignedly, they rely on a metaphorical phrase to explain...

We’ve got films dating back to the last edition of Cannes, threaded in there are items from Locarno, Venice and more recent items from Sundance and even a Berlinale winner in Cu Li Never Cries by Pham Ngoc Lân. The...