Berlinale 2026
7 hours ago
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
7 hours ago
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
7 hours ago
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
7 hours ago
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
7 hours ago
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
19 hours ago
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
2 days ago
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
3 days ago
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
3 days ago
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
3 days ago
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
3 days ago
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
4 days ago
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
5 days ago
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
6 days ago
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
6 days ago
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
6 days ago
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
7 days ago
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
7 days ago
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
7 days ago
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
7 days ago
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
7 days ago
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
7 days ago
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
7 days ago
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
1 week ago
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
1 week ago
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
1 week ago
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
1 week ago
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…
Berlinale 2026
1 week ago
Berlinale 2026: Yellow Letters (dir. İlker Çatak) | Review
Berlinale Competition entry "Yellow Letters" offers a dense, nuanced interrogation of sociopolitical vulnerabilities and perceptual bias within power structures. Executed with intellectual rigor and stylistic flair, it is a stellar…
Berlinale 2026
1 week ago
Berlinale 2026: Mint (dir. Charlotte Regan) | Review
Charlotte Regan’s "Mint" is a stylish Scottish crime romance that flashes with working-class authenticity, yet ultimately falls short of the narrative force and emotional depth its dazzling promise suggests.
Berlinale 2026
1 week ago
Berlinale 2026: In a Whisper | Interview with Leyla Bouzid
In "In a Whisper," Leyla Bouzid transforms the intimate space of a family home into a quietly charged arena where inherited silence, queer love and generational memory collide, extending her…
Berlinale 2026
1 week ago
Berlinale 2026: The River Train (dir. Lorenzo Ferro) | Review
"The River Train" is a fluid, aesthetically immersive experience — a poetic and philosophical reimagining of "Alice in Wonderland" through a male adolescent lens. It explores coming-of-age and liberation within…
Berlinale 2026
1 week ago
Berlinale 2026: No Good Men (dir. Shahrbanoo Sadat) | Review
"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
1 week ago
Berlinale 2026: The Story of Documentary Film (dir. Mark Cousins) | Review
"The Story of Documentary Film" offers a poetic, generous and deeply informative journey through the history of nonfiction cinema, reaffirming Mark Cousins as one of the great cinematic essayists of…
Berlinale 2026
1 week ago
Berlinale 2026: A Family (dir. Mees Peijnenburg) | Review
"A Family" trains its focus on how familial collapse reshapes children's perspectives — not directly on their parents, but on the idea of family itself. And through it all, the…
Berlinale 2026
1 week ago
Berlinale 2026: Light Pillar (dir. Xu Zao) | Review
"Light Pillar" is a futuristic, technologically driven meditation on loneliness that channels the spirit of "Inception" and "Black Mirror" while retaining a deeply compassionate touch — a neon-filled, experimental bonanza…
Berlinale 2026
2 weeks ago
Berlinale 2026: I Understand Your Displeasure (dir. Kilian Armando Friedrich) | Review
In Kilian Armando Friedrich’s "I Understand Your Displeasure," Sabine Thalau delivers an exceptional dual performance of angelic endurance and demonic defiance, illuminating the systemic and psychological wreckage of low-wage labor…
Berlinale 2026
2 weeks ago
Berlinale 2026: Iván & Hadoum (dir. Ian de la Rosa) | Review
Unforgiving love goes on a heartfelt battle with discrimination and exploitation in director Ian de la Rosa’s "Iván and Hadoum," an unmissable cinematic treat in Berlinale Panorama this year.
IFFR 2026
2 weeks ago
IFFR 2026: The Misconceived (dir. James N. Kienitz Wilkins) | Review
"The Misconceived" is a poignant and comedic self-referential reflection of an artist living in the 2020s. James N. Kienitz Wilkins' feature debuted at IFF Rotterdam 2026.
IFFR 2026
2 weeks ago
IFFR 2026: Conrad & Crab – Idiotic Gems (dir. Claude Schmitz) | Review
IFFR’s "Conrad & Crab — Idiotic Gems" is a humorous, unconventional investigative tale of two veteran detectives whose quest for the ultimate truth about societal issues and inner desires turns…
IFFR 2026
3 weeks ago
IFFR 2026: Home (dir. Marijana Janković) | Review
In "Home," this year's Big Screen Competition contender, director Marijana Janković subtly explores how emigration fractures and relocates the fundamental pillars of bonding, values, and identity within a family.
FIPADOC 2026
3 weeks ago
FIPADOC 2026: Our Top 5 Documentaries
Our FIPADOC 2026 highlights celebrate five powerful documentaries that moved, challenged, and stayed with us long after the screenings.
IFFR 2026
3 weeks ago
IFFR 2026: Nangong Cheng (dir. Shao Pan) | Review
Shao Pan delivers an ultimatum to the bias of contextualism through a sophisticated portrait of grief, culture, and revenge within the Jianghu world in "Nangong Cheng," this year’s one-of-a-kind IFFR…
IFFR 2026
4 weeks ago
IFFR 2026: Mayilaa (dir. Semmalar Annam) | Review
Melodi Dorcas soars like a “Hercules in a Saree” in Semmalar Annam’s divinely charged cinema "Mayilaa," where the weight women carry on their shoulders is also their greatest treasure: an…
Best Films
January 3, 2026
Our Writers’ Top 10 Films of 2025
Discover the films our editorial team has chosen to carry forward from the year just past—ranging from works by world-renowned filmmakers to quieter, more discreet creations that proved no less…
RIDM 2025
December 16, 2025
RIDM 2025: Agatha’s Almanac | Interview with Amalie Atkins
We had the pleasure of speaking with filmmaker Amalie Atkins about her creative process as she films her aunt, out of which emerges a luminous intergenerational dialogue rooted in genuine…
Spotlight: Emerging European Talents
December 16, 2025
PÖFF 2025: La Carn | Interview with Joan Porcel
We met filmmaker Joan Porcel whose feature "La Carn" follows a young dancer journeying through the digital underworld.
RIDM 2025
December 3, 2025
RIDM 2025: CycleMahesh | Interview with Suhel Banerjee
“There is no innocent filmmaker,” says Suhel Banerjee, who turns a young migrant worker’s odyssey into a deep, hybrid work that reflects on class, landscape, and what cinema can reveal.
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) 2025
December 2, 2025
PÖFF 2025: China Sea | Interview with Jurgis Matulevičius
"China Sea" probes the wounds of a generation as Jurgis Matulevičius follows an angry young man “trying to change” in a world that keeps dragging him back.
RIDM 2025
November 30, 2025
RIDM 2025: The Blueberry Blues (dir. Andrés Livov) | Review
Presented as the closing film of the 28th RIDM, Andrés Livov’s feature is a warm, gentle embrace; one that accompanies grief and guides us toward the light.
RIDM 2025
November 28, 2025
RIDM 2025: Chronicle of a City | Interview with Nadine Gomez
“My pleasure in observing the city is constant and infinite,” Nadine Gomez told us after the Canadian premiere of her latest film, "Chronicle of a City" at RIDM 2025.
