The Film Stage

undertone (stylized all-lowercase) writer-director Ian Tuason staged his debut feature entirely in his Toronto childhood home with only two on-screen actors, with the other performances playing out in audio form only. After a Fantasia premiere last summer nabbed it an...

The best thing about Brydie O’Connor’s documentary Barbara Forever is how it functions an interesting, engaging movie on its own terms. It concerns the life of filmmaker Barbara Hammer, a pioneer of queer cinema and larger, cultural queer identity. And...

Since taking his debut feature Winter Brothers to the Locarno Film Festival in 2017, Hlynur Pálmason has gradually made his name as one of Europe’s most eclectic and exciting filmmakers. The Icelandic director’s four features to date have each used...

Nearly all of Hong Sangsoo’s films are funny—Funny Ha Ha does what it says on the tin—but it’s been a moment since the man released a proper comedy. This made word of last year’s debut What Does That Nature Say...

The thing about New York City is: it’s never as good as it was, yet it’s still better than anywhere else. The only thing constant is change, and the city is a paragon of that fact. There’s a dwindling number...

Florencia Martin’s second feature collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson following Licorice Pizza and her second Oscar nomination following Babylon, One Battle After Another is a feat of instant-classic production design. From the redwood stump that Bob emerges from as he’s...

With Sundance now underway, the next major festival on our radar is Berlinale, which kicks off on February 12. Today we’re proud to present the exclusive trailer for one of the hopeful breakouts in the Generation section, Victoria Linares Villegas’...

There’s been a lot of reflection at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, the last to be held in its original home of Park City, Utah. Jay Duplass is one of many for whom the nation’s premier independent film festival has...

“Will your oceans be made of our glaciers?” Icelandic poet Andri Snær Magnason asks in the narration that plays over Time and Water, the beautiful new documentary from Fire of Love director Sara Dosa. Driven by Magnason’s family archives and...

We know so little about the life of Eleni (Cemre Paksoy), a nurse working in an upscale retirement community, until something awakens in her. Directed by Georgia Bernstein, the perverse thriller Night Nurse doesn’t quite qualify as a psychosexual thriller despite some...