Screen Anarchy

Locarno 2025 Review: IRKALLA: GILGAMESH’S DREAM Confronts Iraq’s Haunted Present Through Myth, Memory and Children as Collateral Damage
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Director Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji constructs a fragmented, myth-infused portrait of post-ISIS Baghdad, where the traumas of a lost generation unfold through the eyes of a silent child wandering between memory, violence, and ancient legend. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Now Streaming: Ethan Coen’s DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS
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Ahead of this week's release of 'Honey Don't,' we look back at last year's solo effort by Ethan Coen. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Locarno 2025 Awards: Japanese Drama TABI TO HIBI Wins Top Honors at 78th Locarno Film Festival
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The 78th Locarno Film Festival spotlighted a new wave of global cinema, with Sho Miyake's 'Tabi to Hibi' claiming the Golden Leopard. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Locarno 2025 Review: FANTASY Merges Coming of Age and Social Drama on Identity Through a Music Video Aesthetics
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Slovenian director Kukla creates an intimate exploration of gender fluidity and self-discovery within the framework of a coming-of-age tale set in the contemporary Balkans in her fiction debut. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Grimmfest 2025: UK Genre Fest Reveals Full Line-up
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Our friends at Grimmfest have revealed the full lineup for this year's festival, to be held at the Oden Great Northern in Manchester, from October 9th through to the 12th. Always a perfect primer for spooky season this year's seventeenth...
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Sound And Vision: Jake Schreier
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In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several music videos by Jake Schreier. Currently Jake Schreier is Hollywood's (and especially Marvel's) new go-to-guy, after the...
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Locarno 2025 Review: Lyrical MARE’S NEST Maps a Post-Adult World Through the Eyes of a Child
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Ben Rivers' film envisions a quietly unsettling world shaped by children, offering a reflective counterpoint to conventional post-apocalyptic stories. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Locarno 2025 Review: DON’T LET THE SUN Envisions a Sociological Dystopia of Emotional Surrogacy and Climatic Disconnection
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Jacqueline Zünd´s fiction debut, set in a nocturnal world rendered uninhabitable by climate collapse, follows a professional emotional surrogate whose carefully managed detachment begins to unravel when he's hired to play the father of a withdrawn young girl. [Read the...
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Locarno 2025 Industry: Locarno’s First Look Turns Spotlight on Canadian Cinema
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Locarno's First Look industry showcase turned its 14th edition spotlight on Canadian cinema, unveiling six diverse works in progress that underline the country's growing ambition and international reach. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Locarno 2025 Industry: Story Lab Showcases New Projects Merging Place, Politics, and Hybrid Storytelling
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New generation of filmmakers unveiled projects that blur fiction and documentary, reclaim overlooked histories, and probe urgent social questions, offering international partners early access to bold, globally resonant storytelling at Locarno's Story Lab Pitching Session. [Read the whole post on...
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