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Sundance 2026 / World Cinema Dramatic Competition

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15 articles available in total starting from 26/01/2026. Last article published on 26/02/2026.

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Olive Nwosu • Director of Lady

Interview: Olive Nwosu • Director of Lady

“There’s a discovery of the sense of freedom that exists when you’ve broken all the rules”

BERLINALE 2026: The Nigerian director discussed the inspirations behind her debut, as well as the real life story that helped shape her heroine’s journey  

26/02 | Berlinale 2026

Rafael Manuel • Director of Filipiñana

Interview: Rafael Manuel • Director of Filipiñana

“When you look at what’s happening in the world today, so much has to do with inaction - a lack of political action, a lack of personal action”

BERLINALE 2026: The Filipino director speaks about his first feature… and the parallels between a golf club and the power dynamics in our society  

17/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Perspectives

Wregas Bhanuteja • Director of Levitating

Interview: Wregas Bhanuteja • Director of Levitating

“Unfortunately, people can become so obsessed with their own standards of happiness that they end up oppressing others who live differently”

The Indonesian director discussed his personal approach to spirituality, fictionalising trance rituals and future projects  

30/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Moshe Rosenthal • Director of Tell Me Everything

Interview: Moshe Rosenthal • Director of Tell Me Everything

“I wanted to give my own vision of that time – one infused with memory and trauma, not nostalgia”

The filmmaker discusses his second feature, his personal link to its story and to its music and the reason he set most of it in the 1980s  

30/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Myrsini Aristidou • Director of Hold Onto Me

Interview: Myrsini Aristidou • Director of Hold Onto Me

“Cyprus itself is very quiet, and that emptiness forces you to look inwards – that energy was important for the film”

The Cypriot director breaks down her quiet and sensitive coming-of-age drama about a girl who reunites with her father after many years  

30/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Lady

Review: Lady

Olive Nwosu offers a character-driven portrait of a woman in modern-day Lagos who strives for survival while navigating solidarity and self-determination  

30/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Filipiñana

Review: Filipiñana

Expanded from a 2020 short into a 100-minute feature, Rafael Manuel’s debut is an exercise in visual control, but its slow-burn ambitions collapse under their own weight  

30/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Extra Geography

Review: Extra Geography

Molly Manners’ debut offers a polished treatment of overused coming-of-age tropes, but lacks emotional substance and ethical clarity  

29/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Levitating

Review: Levitating

Wregas Bhanuteja’s film is an unconventional Indonesian tale that mixes trance rituals and personal growth, unevenly paced yet refreshingly distinctive in tone and vision  

29/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Andrius Blaževičius • Director of How to Divorce During the War

Interview: Andrius Blaževičius • Director of How to Divorce During the War

“I wanted to create space for the viewer to think about what is happening and about what they would have done in this situation”

The writer-director mulls creative collaborations and finding the appropriate distance from which to reflect on the war in Ukraine – through a sharp Lithuanian lens  

28/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

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