Spotlight: Documentary
4 hours ago
TIDF 2026: XiXi (dir. Fan Wu) | Review
Fan Wu's "XiXi" is a true ode to freedom, a heartfelt cry for the reclaiming of women’s bodies, an essential prerequisite for attaining that much-desired freedom.
Spotlight: Documentary
5 hours ago
TIDF 2026: Confessions of a Mole (dir. Mo Tan) | Review
An intimate and caustic self-portrait, "Confessions of a Mole," directed by Mo Tan, was selected to compete in the Salute! Chinese Independent Documentaries section of TIDF 2026.
Cannes 2026
8 hours ago
Cannes 2026 (Directors’ Fortnight): We Are Aliens (dir. Kohei Kadowaki) | Review
Looking for an animated film that will catch you off guard? "We Are Aliens" is a peculiar, groundbreaking psychodrama about troubled boyhoods and the transformations hidden within their journeys —…
Cannes 2026
8 hours ago
Cannes 2026 (Critics’ Week): Viva (dir. Aina Clotet) | Review
Aina Clotet’s "Viva" ("Alive") explores a cancer survivor’s reawakening desire through two profoundly different relationships in a standout Critics’ Week debut.
Cannes 2026
10 hours ago
Cannes 2026 (Un Certain Regard): All The Lovers In The Night (dir. Sode Yukiko) | Review
2026 Un Certain Regard selection "All the Lovers in the Night" offers a meditative, therapeutic unveiling of earthly riches and the relationships that cradle us in unprecedented ways, all delicately…
Cannes 2026
10 hours ago
Cannes 2026 (Critics’ Week): The Station (dir. Sara Ishaq) | Review
In a Yemen ravaged by cycles of violence, "The Station" is a brilliant, generous, and gripping film that celebrates sisterhood and the strength of family bonds as a way of…
Cannes 2026
1 day ago
Cannes 2026 (Un Certain Regard): Forever Your Maternal Animal (dir. Valentina Maurel) | Review
Director Valentina Maurel opens up the concealed layers of womanhood across two dimensions: the silent, non-desperate plea that lingers beneath modern survival, and the savior instinct that operates within intimate…
Cannes 2026
1 day ago
Cannes 2026 (Critics’ Week): Flesh and Fuel (dir. Pierre Le Gall) | Review
Rare connections and sublime desires flutter like butterflies caught in moving wheels in Pierre Le Gall's "Flesh and Fuel" — Cannes Critics' Week's intimate entry about the weight of duty…
Cannes 2026
2 days ago
Cannes 2026 (Directors’ Fortnight): Shana (dir. Lila Pinell) | Review
Misery comes full circle in a fairly tangled tale of endurance and insecurity, intertwined with comedy and fantasy. Eva Huault's natural performance lights "Shana" like a torch — an adult…
Cannes 2026
3 days ago
Cannes 2026 (Cannes Premiere): Marie Madeleine (dir. Géssica Généus) | Review
Géssica Généus pulls double duty as director and star in "Marie Madeleine," where taboo and temptation collide against the foundations of faith and morality in a musically driven portrait of…
Cannes 2026
3 days ago
Cannes 2026 (ACID): Blaise (dirs. Dimitri Planchon & Jean-Paul Guigue) | Review
ACID selection "Blaise" locates hope at the heart of societal chaos and discomfort, unfolding as this year's celebratory satirical comedy where family dysfunction intermingles with the dilemmas of modernization and…
Spotlight: Documentary
4 weeks ago
Visions du Réel 2026: Saudades Eternas (dir. Emma Boccanfuso) | Review
In the heart of the favela, Emma Boccanfuso portrays a vibrant, deeply endearing matriarch who turns her home into a haven of solidarity, warmth, and dignity.
Spotlight: Documentary
4 weeks ago
Visions du Réel 2026: Dentro (dir. Elsa Amiel) | Review
Elsa Amiel offers an immersion into the creative work of the "Compagnia della Fortezza" and its director, centered around the notion of freedom.
Spotlight: Documentary
4 weeks ago
Visions du Réel 2026: For Life (dir. Ahmet Seven) | Review
Ahmet Seven delivers a gripping and deeply moving film about an overwhelming will to live, set in a land where occupation relentlessly produces human tragedy.
Spotlight: Documentary
4 weeks ago
Visions du Réel 2026: Guided Tour (dir. Alba Jaramillo) | Review
"Guided Tour" deftly depicts, with both narrative and formal ingenuity, a very real curse: the one left behind by those who once seized control of the Puerto Rican island of…
Spotlight: Documentary
4 weeks ago
Visions du Réel 2026: Nicole Nicole (dir. Lauren Dällenbach) | Review
Touching and luminous, "Nicole Nicole" offers an intimate, family-centered narrative that tenderly captures a journey of emancipation as unconventional as it is uplifting.
List Of Film Festivals
April 15, 2026
2027 Film Festival Dates
Film Fest Report provides you with insights to anticipate the 2027 film festival season. Explore the dates of the world's major film festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, Venice, Locarno, Hot…
CPH:DOX 2026
March 22, 2026
CPH:DOX 2026: Whispers in May (dir. Dongnan Chen) | Review
In rural China, Dongnan Chen crafts a luminous, delicately poetic film about young girls whom life compels to grow up a little too soon.
CPH:DOX 2026
March 21, 2026
CPH:DOX 2026: Let Our Mountains Live (dir. Håvard Bustnes) | Review
Up close with the Sámi people—whose rights are being undermined by Europe’s largest wind farm project in Norway—filmmaker Håvard Bustnes delivers a powerful documentary at the heart of a struggle…
CPH:DOX 2026
March 15, 2026
CPH:DOX 2026: The Cord (dir. Nolwenn Hervé) | Review
A moving and urgent portrait of a woman working tirelessly to patch the failures of the healthcare system, "The Cord" offers a raw and striking immersion into contemporary Venezuela.
CPH:DOX 2026
March 14, 2026
CPH:DOX 2026: Christiania (dir. Karl Friis Forchhammer) | Review
In search of his origins, Karl Friis Forchhammer uses cinema to tell the story of a unique neighborhood, unfolding like a thwarted utopia.
CPH:DOX 2026
March 12, 2026
CPH:DOX 2026: Scarlet Girls (dir. Paula Cury Melo) | Review
Through a mosaic of poignant testimonies, Paula Cury Melo reveals the deep pain and injustice that Dominican women are forced to live with.
Berlinale 2026
February 26, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Everybody Digs Bill Evans (dir. Grant Gee) | Review
Premiering in Berlinale Competition, Grant Gee’s "Everybody Digs Bill Evans" is a ravishing black-and-white elegy that turns the pianist’s creative paralysis into a tender, devastating meditation on addiction, grief and…
Berlinale 2026
February 24, 2026
Berlinale 2026: A New Dawn (dir. Yoshitoshi Shinomiya) | Review
"A New Dawn" is a visually breathtaking meditation on legacy and environmental loss whose painterly beauty and thematic ambition ultimately outshine a narrative that keeps the audience at an emotional…
Berlinale 2026
February 24, 2026
Berlinale 2026: The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (dir. Noah Segan) | Review
Noah Segan’s "The Only Living Pickpocket in New York" is a charming, 70s-tinged love letter to a changing city, elevated by John Turturro’s tender performance.
Berlinale 2026
February 24, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Cesarean Weekend (dir. Mohammad Shirvani) | Review
Mohammad Shirvani’s "Caesarean Weekend" is a politically charged, formally experimental portrait of generational tension in contemporary Iran that, despite its bold defiance and ambition, feels more like an intellectual puzzle…
Berlinale 2026
February 24, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Barbara Forever (dir. Brydie O’Connor) | Review
Brydie O’Connor’s "Barbara Forever" is an affectionate and elegantly edited tribute to queer cinema pioneer Barbara Hammer, yet stops short of fully engaging with the breadth and urgency of her…
Berlinale 2026
February 24, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Isabel (dir. Gabe Klinger) | Review
Gabe Klinger’s "Isabel" is a sensorially lush, gorgeously shot portrait of São Paulo whose grain and style ultimately cannot compensate for a narratively thin and politically unexamined exploration of privilege,…
Berlinale 2026
February 24, 2026
Berlinale 2026: River Dreams | Interview with Kristina Mikhailova, Dana Sabitova and the main cast
"No Good Men" offers a rare and engaging glimpse into the lives of Afghan women working in media, blending romance and political reality — even if its execution occasionally slips…
Berlinale 2026
February 23, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Gorilla Bathes at Noon (dir. Dušan Makavejev) | Review
In Berlinale’s Retrospective, Dušan Makavejev’s "Gorilla Bathes at Noon" proves once again to be an unmissable, grainy and darkly comic meditation on ideology and identity in a newly reunified Berlin.
Berlinale 2026
February 22, 2026
Berlinale 2026: The Loneliest Man in Town (dirs. Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel) | Review
Fiction and reality are intertwined in Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel’s beautiful and moving portrait of Viennese blue’s musician Al Cook, in which we follow his last days in his…
Berlinale 2026
February 22, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Salvation (dir. Emin Alper) | Review
Set against a stark mountain village in Turkey, "Salvation" follows two brothers as faith, power and rivalry slowly entangle, pulling us into an uneasy space where belief can feel both…
Berlinale 2026
February 22, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Dust (dir. Anke Blondé) | Review
Almost a financial thriller, "Dust" unspools the quiet implosion of two self-fashioned tech visionaries, turning corporate bravado into a slow, absurd reckoning with ego, fraud and the illusion of success.
Berlinale 2026
February 22, 2026
Berlinale 2026: The Loneliest Man in Town | Interview with Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel
We sat down with Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, who reflect on "The Loneliest Man in Town," tracing the stubborn solitude of a blues musician who chose authenticity over acclaim,…
Berlinale 2026
February 21, 2026
Berlinale 2026: A New Dawn | Interview with Yoshitoshi Shinomiya
In this interview, "A New Dawn" reveals itself as a film breaking away from tradition while still holding it close, as Yoshitoshi Shinomiya speaks candidly about Makoto Shinkai’s influence, the…
Berlinale 2026
February 20, 2026
Berlinale 2026: The Weight (dir. Padraic McKinley) | Review
Padraic McKinley's directorial debut is a brooding Depression-era survival tale that carries the weight of its genre heavily on its shoulders, straining between homage and revision without ever quite breaking…
Berlinale 2026
February 18, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Members of the Problematic Family (dir. R Gowtham) | Review
Indian New Wave director R Gowtham goes full Paul Thomas Anderson in Berlinale’s "Members of the Problematic Family" — an ensemble alchemy that delivers an uncanny, raw examination of life…
Berlinale 2026
February 18, 2026
Berlinale 2026: We Are All Strangers (dir. Anthony Chen) | Review
Anthony Chen’s "We Are All Strangers" is a beautifully shot intergenerational drama about love and shifting family bonds in modern Singapore that, despite moments of sensory grace and strong performances,…
Berlinale 2026
February 18, 2026
Berlinale 2026: The Other Side of the Sun (dir. Tawfik Sabouni) | Review
Tawfik Sabouni’s "The Other Side of the Sun" is a devastating, unsensational yet profoundly necessary documentary, as former Sednaya prisoners return to the site of their torture to reconstruct memory,…
Berlinale 2026
February 18, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Chronicles From the Siege (dir. Abdallah Alkhatib) | Review
Abdallah Alkhatib’s "Chronicles From The Siege" offers a poignant, vignette-driven meditation on the endurance and fragmentation of Palestinian life under siege, elevated by haunting performances yet ultimately constrained by a…
Berlinale 2026
February 18, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays | Interview with Frederike Migom
In "Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays," Frederike Migom explores the fragile threshold between adolescence and adulthood.
Berlinale 2026
February 18, 2026
Berlinale 2026: London (dir. Sebastian Brameshuber) | Review
Sebastian Brameshuber’s meditative road movie reveals the human condition through our connections with others and our past.
Berlinale 2026
February 18, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Dao (dir. Alain Gomis) | Review
Alain Gomis’s three-hour "Dao" unfolds as a fluid meditation on family, identity, and belonging, dissolving the boundaries between fiction and reality as it traces the circular rhythms of life and…
Berlinale 2026
February 18, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Numb | Interview with Takuya Uchiyama
"I hope this film brings the audience an awareness of the often-overlooked fragments of beauty in our daily lives," director Takuya Uchiyama told us about "Numb," a story of starting…
Berlinale 2026
February 18, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Rosebush Pruning (dir. Karim Aïnouz) | Review
In Berlinale Competition, "Rosebush Pruning" emerges as a sun-drenched, wickedly entertaining satire from Karim Aïnouz.
Berlinale 2026
February 18, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Paradise (dir. Jérémy Comte) | Review
Berlin Panorama entry "Paradise" is a surprise film forging and severing human bonds across continents through a comparative study of human connection, delivered with warmth and engaging direction by Jérémy…
Berlinale 2026
February 17, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Enough Is Enough (dir. Elisé Sawasawa) | Review
‘This is not a movie about the conflict, it is a movie from the conflict.’ Premiering in Berlinale’s Panorama Documentary section, "Enough Is Enough" by Elisé Sawasawa is a searing, unflinching…
Berlinale 2026
February 17, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Roya (dir. Mahnaz Mohammadi) | Review
Premiering in Berlinale’s Panorama section as both a clandestine production and a defiant political gesture, Mahnaz Mohammadi’s "Roya" is a stark, emotionally shattering portrait of state and intimate repression that…
Berlinale 2026
February 17, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Lord of the Flies (dir. Marc Munden) | Review
Marc Munden and Jack Thorne’s bold BBC adaptation of "Lord of the Flies" transforms Golding’s classic into a visceral, visually daring and thematically urgent exploration of inherited trauma, masculinity, and…
Berlinale 2026
February 17, 2026
Berlinale 2026: Raging (dir. Ryan Machado) | Review
Gritty. Atmospheric. Emotionally devastating. Ryan Machado's "Rumaragasa" ("Raging") arrives with fury — an artsy, urgent, visually stunning exploration of teen abuse, PTSD, and discrimination. Backed by world-class screenplay, direction, and…
