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10952 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 22/08/2025.

The 31st Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival is in full swing

The 31st Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival is in full swing

The French festival is presenting ten films in competition as well as an homage to Gareth Edwards  

25/01/2024 | Festivals | Awards | France

Review: Brief History of a Family

Review: Brief History of a Family

Everybody’s looking for something in the meticulously realised debut feature by Chinese director Jianjie Lin  

24/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Kidnapping Inc.

Review: Kidnapping Inc.

Haitian director Bruno Mourral's first feature is a hyper-kinetic comedy-thriller that follows two hapless anti-heroes in a story that also touches upon political and social issues  

24/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | Midnight

Review: Girls Will Be Girls

Review: Girls Will Be Girls

Debuting director Shuchi Talati explores the intricacies of female adolescence against a backdrop of male-dominated societal norms  

24/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Piero Messina's Another End selected in competition at the Berlinale

Piero Messina's Another End selected in competition at the Berlinale

The Italian director’s sophomore feature is a love story with an international cast including Gael García Bernal, Renate Reinsve, Bérénice Bejo, and Olivia Williams  

23/01/2024 | Production | Funding | Italy/France/UK

Review: In the Land of Brothers

Review: In the Land of Brothers

The debut feature from Iranian filmmakers Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi skilfully weaves together an edifying fiction in three parts, about Afghan refugees in dramatic circumstances  

23/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Johan Grimonprez • Director of Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Interview: Johan Grimonprez • Director of Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

“I used to be fascinated by Khrushchev’s shoe-banging incident, yet I never realised it had to do with the politics of my own country”

In the Belgian director’s new documentary, music meets politics – and the results are explosive  

23/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Review: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Review: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Mid-century American jazz soundtracks anti-colonial struggles in Johan Grimonprez’s study of the Congo Crisis and Patrice Lumumba’s CIA-backed assassination  

23/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Anatomy of a Fall triumphs at the Lumières Awards

Anatomy of a Fall triumphs at the Lumières Awards

Justine Triet’s film wins three trophies including Best Film; Best Director goes to Thomas Cailley for The Animal Kingdom; and Sandra Hüller and Arieh Worthalter win in the acting categories  

23/01/2024 | Festivals | Awards | France

Review: Bisons

Review: Bisons

Telling the poignant tale of two brothers wrestling with the challenges of their oppressive day-to-day lives, Pierre Monnard stresses the importance of solidarity  

22/01/2024 | Solothurn 2024

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