Ioncinema

We has taken her time with her cinema first shoring up with Mein Stern (2001) which was a FIPRESCI Prize (Special Mention) winner at TIFF, then 2006’s Longing (a comp film at the Berlinale) with her 2017 third feature being...

The Play’s the Thing: Ambrossi & Calvo Connect the Dots “Dark love is the love that is never named,” wrote Federico Garcia Lorca in Sonnets of Dark Love whose unfinished manuscript of The Black Ball is the connective tissue between...

From Belgium, Lukas Dhont makes his third trip to the Croisette. 2018’s Girl premiered in Un Certain Regard section and won just about everything from the Caméra d’Or, Queer Palm and Best Performance (Victor Polster) in Un Certain Regard. Close...

Virtual unknowns in non-Spanish speaking markets, Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo — often collectively known in Spain as “Los Javis” have brought their brand to queer storytelling with their musical sensibilities. Their only work to date had been the musical...

He has been owning Sundance since he premiered 1996 The Delta and three decades later the cinema of Ira Sachs has been expanding to new A list film fest destinations with his most recent drops at the Berlinale in for...

A relative newcomer to cinema with only the co-directed Zero Fucks Given (with Julie Lecoustre) selected for the 2021 edition of Critics’ Week, Emmanuel Marre’s cinema looks at marginalized lives andf reedom versus responsibility. With A Man of His Time...

It is Seldom That a Dream Comes True: Sachs Sends Regard with Poignant Elegy In the realm of contemporary queer auteurs, there isn’t anyone quite like Ira Sachs and his collaborating writer/partner Mauricio Zacharias who utilize cinema as a medium...

Lost Illusions: Marre Administers Plodding Portrait of an Opportunist “There’s nothing worse than being bored with a boring man,” according to French writer Antoine Laurain. The statement applies to both the subject and the film Notre salut (A Man of...

Deep Sea, Baby: Kotzamani Goes Down Where It’s Wetter Greek filmmaker Konstantina Kotzamani heads to Japan for her directorial debut, Titanic Ocean, its fanciful title a reference to the private reminiscences of a young woman who is heavily involved in...

The only title to have had its world premiere prior to hitting the south of France is Bitter Christmas from Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar. The El Deseo factory is no stranger to the fest — but it wasn’t until Best Director...