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342 articles available in total starting from 17/10/2023. Last article published on 16/02/2026.

Visar Morina • Director of Shame and Money

Interview: Visar Morina • Director of Shame and Money

“If everything becomes exchanged in terms of money, the first thing that dies will be what we call being human”

The Kosovo-born director breaks down his third feature, which sees an older couple from the countryside forced to keep pace in an uber-commodified urban present  

27/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Sakaris Stórá • Director of The Last Paradise on Earth

Interview: Sakaris Stórá • Director of The Last Paradise on Earth

“In Faroese, we have a word for ‘longing for the bigger world’ that I don’t think other languages have”

We sat down with the filmmaker to discuss his newest work amidst the landscape of a burgeoning Faroese film culture and industry  

27/01 | Tromsø 2026

Review: How to Divorce During the War

Review: How to Divorce During the War

In his third feature, Andrius Blaževičius probes performativity and conjugal relations with distance and dark humour as the war in Ukraine rages on  

27/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Sámi vs. Sámi

Review: Sámi vs. Sámi

Ellen-Astri Lundby tracks a vital multi-year court case in which two indigenous communities were pitted against each other, each fighting for its rights  

27/01 | Tromsø 2026

Review: Hold Onto Me

Review: Hold Onto Me

Myrsini Aristidou writes, directs and edits her debut feature, a Cyprus-set coming-of-age tale about a girl and her estranged father  

27/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: To Hold a Mountain

Review: To Hold a Mountain

Staying is the most powerful act of resistance in this documentary about maternal care and human-nature interconnectivity by Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić  

27/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Review: The Last Paradise on Earth

Review: The Last Paradise on Earth

Sakaris Stórá’s Nordic Council Film Prize-winning drama is a little miracle about a young man’s desire to stay on the Faroe Islands while everyone else wants to leave  

26/01 | Tromsø 2026

Jonas Lawes • Director of The Watchmaker

Interview: Jonas Lawes • Director of The Watchmaker

“I really enjoyed working things out – directing is just like solving a problem”

The Swedish filmmaker tells us about the creation of his thriller, which uses its small scale to its advantage  

26/01 | Tromsø 2026

Review: Shame and Money

Review: Shame and Money

In his second feature to compete at Sundance, Visar Morina takes a razor-sharp blade to pierce the veil of our ultra-transactional late-stage capitalist present  

26/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

A Sad and Beautiful World triumphs at the 36th Tromsø International Film Festival

A Sad and Beautiful World triumphs at the 36th Tromsø International Film Festival

Other feature-length prizewinners of the evening included Broken Voices, Little Trouble Girls, It Was Just an Accident and The Ground Beneath Our Feet  

26/01 | Tromsø 2026 | Awards

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