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Best Films
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…
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Rome Film Festival 2025
Rome Film Festival 2025: Left-Handed Girl (dir. Shih-Ching Tsou) | Review
With the magnificent "Left-Handed Girl," Shih-Ching Tsou sou finds poetry in motion, meaning in the mess.
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Rome Film Festival 2025
Rome Film Festival 2025: Mad Bills to Pay (dir. Joel Alfonso Vargas) | Review
With "Mad Bills to Pay," Joel Alfonso Vargas announces himself as a bold new voice in American cinema — delivering…
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Cannes 2025
Cannes 2025 (Palme d’Or): It Was Just An Accident (dir. Jafar Panahi) | Review
Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or winning film investigates the tortured souls of the oppressed through a moral conundrum.
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Cannes 2025
Cannes 2025: Arco | Interview with Ugo Bienvenu
"Our superpower is intuition. Machines compute. We feel. Let’s not forget that." We were excited to chat with Ugo Bienvenu…
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CPH:DOX 2025
CPH:DOX 2025: Agatha’s Almanac (dir. Amalie Atkins) | Review
In Agatha’s Almanac, director Amalie Atkins pays tribute to the ingenuity and resilience of her aunt.
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Spotlight: Documentary
Sundance 2025: Middletown (Dirs. Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine) | Review
"Middletown" is an exhilarating portrait of young students forging their political consciousness in the face of a major public health…
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Spotlight: Documentary
Sundance 2025: Coexistence, My Ass! (dir. Amber Fares) | Review
Amber Fares delivers an urgent and essential contemporary film—a clinical and devastating work advocating for peace and justice, driven by…
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Best Films
Our Writers’ Top 10 Films of 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, our team of writers, reveling in independent cinema at festivals worldwide, unveils its top…
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Doc Edge 2024
Doc Edge 2024: Mediha | Interview with Hasan Oswald
Passion, emotion, and admiration blend in the words of Hasan Oswald, director of "Mediha," as the young Yazidi protagonist, returning…
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