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Sundance 2025


30 articles available in total starting from 12/12/2024. Last article published on 27/03/2025.

Mathias Broe • Director of Sauna

Interview: Mathias Broe • Director of Sauna

“I wanted to be able to recognise what I experience myself in queer spaces, in intimate situations”

The Danish director lays out his community-centric approach to creating his first feature, a queer romance that also engages with Denmark’s social environment pertaining to trans rights  

28/01 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Alireza Khatami • Director of The Things You Kill

Interview: Alireza Khatami • Director of The Things You Kill

“I wanted to break away from this cliché that every time you have to reflect, you have to go to a confined, dark space”

The Canadian-based Iranian director speaks to us about his cast, the emotional challenges he faced in making the film and his production process  

28/01 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Sauna

Review: Sauna

Debuting director Mathias Broe brings the beauty of non-heteronormative desire to the big screen with a romance between a doe-eyed cis man and his trans lover  

28/01 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Zodiac Killer Project

Review: Zodiac Killer Project

British essay filmmaker Charlie Shackleton has another crack at the legendary Zodiac Killer case, with the dubious help of a true-crime book he never acquired the rights to  

28/01 | Sundance 2025 | NEXT

Review: Cactus Pears

Review: Cactus Pears

Rohan Parashuram Kanawade’s feature debut depicts shrouded homosexuality in rural India coming into the light  

28/01 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: The Virgin of the Quarry Lake

Review: The Virgin of the Quarry Lake

Laura Casabé reimagines Mariana Enríquez’s gothic tales as a blend of folk horror, social drama and a dark exploration of adolescence set amidst Argentina’s 2001 economic collapse  

28/01 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Peter Hujar’s Day

Review: Peter Hujar’s Day

Ben Whishaw portrays the titular 1970s New York photographer as he recounts his previous working day, in director Ira Sachs’ elegant, slight chamber drama  

27/01 | Sundance 2025 | Premieres

Review: Sukkwan Island

Review: Sukkwan Island

Swann Arlaud and Woody Norman dazzle in Vladimir de Fontenay’s new movie, a high-calibre and incisive survival film which is as brutally physical as it is subtly psychological  

27/01 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Where the Wind Comes From

Review: Where the Wind Comes From

Amel Guellaty's feature debut is a vibrant portrait of youth caught between tradition and the restless desire for freedom on the outskirts of Tunisia  

27/01 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: GEN_

Review: GEN_

Gianluca Matarrese returns with a thought-provoking and humanistic film on an intersection of medical, ethical and cultural issues, guided by its remarkable protagonist  

27/01 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

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