Festivals Videos
Fantaspoa 2026: Brazilian Genre Fest Announces Festival Lineup
Fantaspoa, Brazil's amazing genre film festival, has revealed the lineup for this year's festival.
GHOST ELEPHANTS Interview: Werner Herzog and Dr. Steve Boyes Speak of Dreams, Ritual, and the Vast Mondo Wilderness
Werner Herzog needs no introduction. He has been one of cinema's most fascinating and deliberate risk-takers for over five decades of extraordinary cinema. The enlightenments he discovers through his pursuit of the "ecstatic truth" are often intense and absurd in...
Berlinale 2026 Interview: IN A WHISPER Director-Writer Leyla Bouzid on Queerness and Her Narrative Approach as a Tunisian Filmmaker
As a Tunisian queer filmmaker, one must exercise particular care when addressing an issue that remains deeply taboo in society to this day. Yet this does not prevent Leyla Bouzid from boldly portraying the increasingly precarious reality faced by homosexual...
Rotterdam 2026 Review: NO HIT WONDER Scores Quite A Few Hits
Crack jokes all you want about the concept of German comedy films, but they exists and are often quite good. Case in point: Florian Dietrich's comedy No Hit Wonder, which played at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year and...
Berlinale 2026 Interview: QUEEN AT SEA Director Lance Hammer on the Ethical Dilemma of Alzheimer's
After an 18-year hiatus, Lance Hammer makes a remarkable return to the director’s chair following his Sundance Award–winning debut Ballast. For this long-awaited project, he assembled what he describes as his dream cast, led by Juliette Binoche and the outstanding...
Rotterdam 2026 Review: GUNMAN Is One Shot That Hits
Festival people are the best. At the International Film Festival Rotterdam, a filmmaker I met for the first time almost immediately recommended I should watch Cris Tapia Marchiori's thriller Gatillero, released internationally as Gunman, and it turned out to be...
GHOST ELEPHANTS Review: Werner Herzog Reconciles Pragmatism and Poetry in the Angola Highlands
In 1955, Hungarian born Angolan rancher, businessman, and big game hunter, Josef J. Fénykövi, tracked down and killed the largest land animal on record. He was lauded by Sports Illustrated at the time for this sportsman prowess, although Fénykövi...
PRETTY LETHAL Official Trailer: Dance as if Your Life Depended on it. Fight Because it Does.
The official trailer is here for Vicky Jewson's action thriller, Pretty Lethal. Their film will have its world premiere at SXSW then stream globally on Prime Video on March 25th. Stunt performer Shahaub Roudbari is the stunt designer &...
Berlinale 2026 Review: LALI, Newlyweds Confront Demons in Pakistani Drama
The lavish wedding ceremony keeps hitting snags, especially when future mother-in-law Sohni Ammi (Farazeh Syed) is accidentally shot in the leg during a fireworks celebration. It's just another sign of the bad luck that dogs bride Zeba (Mamya Shajaffar), an...
Berlinale 2026 Review: FOUR MINUS THREE, Grief Drama Navigates Loss and Mourning Through Clowning
Valerie Pachner stars, as Austrian filmmaker Adrian Goiginger continues his cycle of true story adaptations with an emotional rollercoaster of a grief drama.
ZUMECA Teaser Trailer: Historical Epic Drama to Premiere at Slamdance
We are debuting the teaser trailer for Zumeca, a historical epic drama, written, directed, and produced by David Maler. Based on a true story, Zumeca shows us the first family of the Americas: a Spaniard, Miguel, and a Taino,...
Rotterdam 2026 Review: PELELIU, GUERNICA OF PARADISE
Anime was well represented at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year. The selection included Hosoda Mamoru's Scarlet (reviewed here), Aoki Yasuhiro's ChaO (reviewed here), and this peculiar one: Kuji Gorō's war drama Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise. Based on a...
Boston Underground 2026: Ben Wheatley's NORMAL to Open Fest With Bob Odenkirk in Attendance
Bob Odenkirk will attend a post-screening Q&A at the opening night screening of NORMAL at The Boston Underground Film Festival.
WHISTLE Interview: Director Corin Hardy and Screenwriter Owen Egerton
The crowd at Fantastic Fest last year found Whistle a more than worthy festival closer. True, the film follows the tried-and-true formula of kids in a group fucking around and finding out. But man, does Whistle have fun finding out....
BLIND COP 2 Exclusive: Chroma Picks up North American Rights to Indie Action-Comedy
When an influx of illegal weapons trafficking explodes onto the scene, a grieving blind police officer must purge the city streets or risk mass chaos breaking loose.
Rotterdam 2026 Interview: Guillaume Nicloux Talks About MI AMOR
The French writer, playwright, professor, actor and director Guillame Nicloux is no stranger to the International Film Festival Rotterdam. In the past 30 years, he visited several times, and his films have often featured in the festival's program. This year...
Rotterdam 2026 Review: I SWEAR Is The Ultimate Crowd Favorite
This year's winner of the Audience Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam is I Swear, Kirk Jones' biopic about John Davidson. To say it is a crowdpleaser is an understatement: from hundreds of votes, the film got a mean...
Available Light 2026 Review: BEYOND THE LEFT HAND PATH, Or, A Temple of Set Guide on How to Live a Full Life
James C. Kirby was an intense man. He lived not one life, but several: A priest of the Temple of Set, a hotel chef, a social worker for traumatized men, a craft jeweller, and the former owner of Canada’s...
Rotterdam 2026 Review: FISH, FISTS AND AMBERGRIS Hits All Of Its Targets
The International Film Festival Rotterdam doesn't just do the no-budget debuts of beginning directors, it also allows glimpses of what is hot in other countries. This is the festival where we got introduced to the Korean classics of the past...
Rotterdam 2026 Review: BAZAAR (MURDER IN THE BUILDING), Funny Hitchcockian Shenanigans
Time flies when you're having fun, and that saying applies to the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Last Saturday there was the screening of the closing film already, the world première of Rémi Bezançon's Le Crime du 3e Étage, to be...
