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The Tide is High: Zhangke Splices Thwarted Romance Across Changing Times Filmmaker Jia Zhangke presents something of an experimental anomaly with his latest feature, Caught by the Tides (Feng Liu Yi Dai), spanning two decades of shifting cultural climates and...

Finally, they would have been 22. Thierry Frémaux reportedly received Bi Gan‘s third feature film at the last possible moment and the reason it wasn’t announced during the second wave is because the ever-unpredictable Chinese censors ensured an eleventh-hour type...

Spill the Tea: Sissako Flounders with Tepid Brew The level of ineptitude apparent in every regard of Black Tea, Abderrahmane Sissako’s first narrative feature in a decade, is downright delirious. During its development, the project was known as The Perfumed...

Among the selections found in this year’s Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard line-up we find “Caravan,” Czech filmmaker Zuzana Kirchnerová‘s feature debut. The road trip movie about a mother (actress Aňa Geislerová) and her disabled is said to explore...

Finally one Paris-based project might have leap-frogged another (Our Apprenticeship) as Variety reports that Ryusuke Hamaguchi will direct All of the Sudden – and has Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto toplining. Hamaguchi is in prep mode, Cinefrance International is in...

Familiar to fans of The Office and Silicon Valley, actor Zach Woods will be moving behind the camera for his directorial debut – a new American indie offering in The Accompanist. Deadline reports that Susan Sarandon, Everly Carganilla and Aubrey...

Of the ten projects recently selected to participate at the Marche du Film’s pitch event called the Investors Circle initiative, we placed Flemish Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont‘s third feature film as one of the more anticipated films we’ll be tracking...

After premiering his debut feature Oray at the Berlinale in 2019 with Oray (winner of the best first feature award), German-based filmmaker Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay returns with his sophomore feature titled Hysteria. A suspense conspiracy thriller using the meta world...

After making its debut at the Venice Film Festival and touring other prestigious autumn festivals like Toronto, San Sebastian, London BFI, and NYFF, it was at Sundance where I finally had the opportunity to speak with Dea Kulumbegashvili about what...

She wowed us (and Sundance programmers) with the short film (check out our Top 10 Short Films From Sundance 2024 article) on which this narrative is based on, and prior to being selected as a Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow, Thirstygirl,...