Debut director Julie Lerat-Gersant offers up a vivid character study of a pregnant teen who’s adamant to give up her baby.
Alexander Sokurov offers a collegial walking tour through limbo with Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Churchill. It’s completely mad.
Armenia’s flagship film festival provided a platform for filmmakers to reflect on various wars, although there were some curious absences.
The Lido will be perfectly happy to host the buzzy Netflix films banned from Cannes.
Luca Guadagnino, Andrew Dominik, Olivia Wilde, and many others are rumored to be locks for the Lido.
The Czech Republic festival is fast becoming a showcase for exciting new talent.
By Katie Goh
The challenges and ethics of showing life in an active conflict zone were a key theme of the festival's 2022 edition.
A new creative director, new programme strands and a new vision promise a big return for the world’s oldest film festival.
Emma Thompson and Lashana Lynch star in one of the first big movie announcements of the Autumn festival season.
By Tim Brinkhof
A dispatch from TIFF 2022, and how the past looms large over Romanian film culture.
The 2023 proceedings will feature a bevy of classics projected on good ol’ 35mm, 16mm, and 70mm.
Léonor Serraille comes good with her novelistic second feature about an immigrant family fighting for survival in France.
Michelle Williams excels as a sculptor whose attention is sapped by colleagues and family in Kelly Reichardt’s ambient social satire.
Albert Serra returns with an apocalyptic saga set in Tahiti in one of his most accomplished and mature films to date.
Lukas Dhont’s second feature focuses on the friendship between two boys, and the tragedy that changes the trajectory of their lives.
A woman who leaves her infant son in a Busan “baby box” finds an unexpected family in Hirokazu Koreeda’s tender drama.
Claire Denis adapts Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel about love in a time of revolution – with fascinating, if not entirely successful, results.
Saeed Roustayi’s panoramic melodrama of a poverty-stricken Tehran family in the midst of disintegration is a knockout.
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