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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...

Just a little bit of time following the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand, the next major film festival dedicated to the short form is the REGARD – Saguenay Intl. Short Film Festival. Today they unveiled a stacked edition – a 35 program schedule...

Keeper of the Flame: Polak Reckons with Reconciliation vs. Retribution in Conventional Drama Dutch director Sacha Polak continues to explore the difficulties of acceptance and reclamation in her fourth feature, Silver Haze, another pseudo-sordid kitchen sink melodrama focused on wounded...

Dialling into a unique relationship dynamic that isn’t portrayed in cinema, Marie Amachoukeli, who won the Camera d’Or award at the 2014 edition of the Cannes Film Festival for Party Girl (co-directed and written with Claire Burger and Samuel Theis)...

With a resume that began as a Script Supervisor on Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits and Zachary Shedd’s Americana, leading up to his first main producer credit for Sebastián Silva’s Tyrel, along with a plethora of other projects in between,...

Tucked away in the NEXT section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival we were reminded of the singular stroke of genius that is vision of Haley Elizabeth Anderson. We attempted to keep tabs on the filmmaker since discovering her short...