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The final titles have trickled in for the 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival and we can now confirm what are Telluride updates, and the only film to hit the major four fests of the fall – this after being selected...

The Story of O: Schoenbrun Approaches the Horrific Desire Inside Us All The inextricable union of victim, victimizer, and witness becomes a metatextual balancing act in Jane Schoenbrun’s formidable third film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a gonzo...

It’s been almost a decade between fiction feature films for Argentinian filmmaker Iván Granovsky, who premiered Los territorios at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2017. Prior to this, 2011’s documentary-fiction hybrid Glorious Accidents (co-directed with Marcus Lindeen) was his...

In a rather lengthy profile piece we learnt that fresh from his brilliant Berlinale winner The Blue Trail (read review), Gabriel Mascaro is opening a production co. in his backyard of Recife, Brazil. Alongside Paula Cosenza, Trema will be focusing...

Last year, the Midnight Madness section received one heck of a thumbs up with Obsession landing a massive distribution deal. This edition, programmer Peter Kuplowsky has unveiled ten mostly blood-soaked oddities with a trio of North American premieres and seven...

Leaning heavily on world premieres, TIFF’s 2026 Short Cuts programme welcomes back familiar names such as Yung Chang, Shaunak Sen and Zarrar Kahn while shining a spotlight on the next generation of emerging filmmakers. Docu filmmaker Yung Chang is transitioning...

As expected there was going to be a larger Cannes (including Quinzaine) cross-over than a Venice presence at this year’s NYFF. While the Palme d’Or winner will be headed to Telluride and TIFF only, gems such as The Diary of...

As expected there was going to be a larger Cannes (including Quinzaine) cross-over than a Venice presence at this year’s NYFF. While the Palme d’Or winner will be headed to Telluride and TIFF only, gems such as The Diary of...

Programming-wise, we expected a bit more of a copy-and-paste approach from Venice to Toronto this year. Instead, documentary programmer Thom Powers largely prioritized world premieres and Canuck female filmmakers, passing over several filmmakers whose latest works are headed to the...

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)’s Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) has unveiled the 20 projects to receive a little coin help to develop their next feature film projects and among the filmmakers we find Dominican filmmaker Nelson Carlo de los...