Tallinn 2025 Review: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Heartbreaking Story Tracks a Maid's Journey Through Egypt's Fractured Class Dynamics
Sarah Goher's film, submitted as Egypt's entry for the Academy Awards, offers an intimate, day-long portrait of a child's maid navigating shifting family and class dynamics.
Tallinn 2025 Review: LIFELIKE Moves Beyond Coming-of-Age
Turkish director Ali Vatansever examines how a family shifts its dynamics as a terminal diagnosis intersects with caregiving, belief, and the virtual spaces that offer temporary escape.
Tallinn 2025 Review: SUNDAY NINTH Probes Memory, Estrangement, Blurred Line Between Fiction and Documentary
Kat Steppe's feature fiction debut examines the disintegration of memory and identity through a hybrid fiction-documentary lens, using the fractured relationship between two estranged brothers as its narrative anchor.
Tallinn 2025 Review: THINK OF ENGLAND Dramatizes Britain's Attempt to Boost Morale with State-Mandated Porn Films
Richard Hawkins' film moves from period workplace comedy, rooted in the absurdities of producing a pornographic film for the war effort, toward a psychological drama shaped by mounting instability.
Tallinn 2025 Review: BLINDSIGHT Retools the Amnesia Narrative Through Immersive Experience and Storytelling Rug Pulling
Adrian Sitaru's latest work employs first person immersion to build a narrative puzzle that shifts into the register of a 'Black Mirror' episode, revealing a film with far more layers than its early realism and family drama implied.
ScreenAnarchy's Top 25 Films Of The 21st Century
We're almost at the end of the year 2025, and that means that the first quarter of the century is already gone. How did that happen so fast? Do quarter centuries currently go by as fast as decades did when...
Oscars 2026 Interview: 100 LITERS OF GOLD Teemu Nikki on Addiction Without Moralism, Comedy Without Templates, Making a Finnish "Beer Western"
In this candid Oscars-season conversation, Finnish director Teemu Nikki unpacks the personal roots, genre subversions, and unexpected global momentum behind '100 Liters of Gold', offering a clear-eyed look at how a deeply local story became one of the year's international contenders.
Tallinn 2025 Review: FATHER, Immersive and Visceral Psychological Study of Guilt and Grief
Selected as Slovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, the film is an incisive study of psychological rupture and its social reverberations.
Tallinn 2025 Review: NO COMMENT Finds Marital Comedy in a Political Crisis
Norwegian director Petter Næss turns to political satire to explore how a marital crisis intersects with the machinery of contemporary governance.
Jihlava 2025 Interview: SUPERHUMANS, Inna Shevchenko Talks Documenting the Body as a Battlefield, Shooting During an Ongoing War
Inna Shevchenko outlines the development of her feature documentary Superhumans, offering insight into filming inside a Ukrainian prosthetics center during an active war and the creative, ethical, and production challenges that shape the project.
SIRAT Review: Meditative and Loudly Distorting
Directed by Oliver Luxe, the film is Spain's official Academy Award entry for Best International Feature.
Jihlava 2025 Interview: MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN, David Borenstein Talks Covert Filmmaking, Collaboration Under Surveillance, and Documenting Russia's Propaganda From the Inside
Filmmaker David Borenstein discusses the making of his covertly-produced documentary, offering an insider's view of how state propaganda and ideological control have reshaped everyday life in contemporary Russia.
Jihlava 2025 Interview: TIME TO TARGET, Vitaly Mansky Talks Returning to Lviv, Filming War Beyond the Front Lines, Moral Freedom That Shaped His Cinema
Vitaly Mansky offers a candid reflection on how war reshapes both personal identity and cinematic truth, revealing the emotional and ethical tensions behind his latest documentary.
LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS Review: Inter-Gay-Lactic Adventure, Queer Coming of Age
Shabana Azeez, Mark Samual Bonnaro, and Gemma Chua-Tran star in the joyful adventure, directed by Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese.
San Sebastian 2025 Review: REDOUBT, Measured, Poetic Study of Obsession, Isolation in Rural Sweden
Swedish filmmaker John Skoog reconstructs the true story of Karl-Göran Persson, a Cold War-era farm laborer who turned his home into a private fortress.
Serial Killer Brno 2025 Review: QUEEN OF FUCKING EVERYTHING, Finnish Darker Comedy Series, Taps into BREAKING BAD Territory with a Twist
Writer-director Tiina Lymi delivers a darker Finnish crime dramedy that examines the collapse of middle-class identity through the story of a real estate agent whose gradual descent into criminality exposes the moral fragility beneath social respectability.
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Review: Darkly Comic Social, Moral Examination
Jafar Panahi's new film.
Busan 2025 Review: Hypnotic Meta-Mystery BLACK RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT Bends Time, Space and Genres in Quantum Storytelling
Black Rabbit, White Rabbit, Tajikistan's official submission for the 2025 Academy Awards, marks the Iranian filmmaker's first international production and an ambitious continuation of his narrative recursion, cinematic illusion.
Serial Killer Brno 2025: Danish Series GENERATIONS Blends Crime Drama Family Saga and the Supernatural
Generations stands out as a finely balanced study in genre fusion, merging elements of crime, family drama, and quiet supernatural tension within the framework of contemporary Nordic television.
Serial Killer Brno 2025: YLE Head of Drama Jarmo Lampela Talks Global Growth, Creative Risk, Future of Finnish TV
Over 10 years at the helm of YLE Drama, Jarmo Lampela has steered Finnish television from local storytelling to global relevance. In this interview, he reflects on how streaming, co-productions, and creative risk reshaped Finland's drama landscape.
