Berlinale 2026 Review: LIGHT PILLAR Casts a Melancholic Glow on Disconnection
In his animated feature debut, Zao Xu applies a production designer's precision to a near future fable that examines precarious labor, mediated intimacy and the fragile architectures, both physical and digital, that shape contemporary isolation.
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.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: ON FALLING Director Laura Carreira Talks Reframing Social Realism for the Algorithmic Age
Laura Carreira talks about translating lived research into formal precision, articulating a contemporary vision of social realism shaped by migrant labour, algorithmic control and structural precarity.
Berlinale 2026: Exclusive IVAN & HADOUM Poster Premiere
Spanish filmmaker Ian de la Rosa will unveil his debut feature Iván & Hadoum in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival. Set against the stark, plastic-covered greenhouses of Almería, the film traces a love story that unfolds...
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: Liv Ullmann on Cinema as Legacy, Responsibility and the Soul Before the Camera
On the occasion of receiving the European Lifetime Achievement Award at the 38th European Film Awards, Liv Ullmann reflects on cinema as legacy, moral responsibility and the enduring mystery of performance in a conversation that speaks directly to the ethical and artistic stakes of filmmaking today.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: Alice Rohrwacher on Cinema as Future Archaeology and the Politics of Experimentation
Alice Rohrwacher reflects on her collaborative practice, myth-infused realism and the production realities shaping contemporary European auteur cinema.
Sundance 2026 Review: EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET, Collective Presence Stalls the System
Director Felipe Bustos Sierra documents a spontaneous act of civic resistance in Glasgow, examining how collective presence can momentarily disrupt the mechanisms of state authority.
Sundance 2026 Review: BIRDS OF WAR, War Reporting and Love Collide
Directors Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak are also the film's protagonists, following a 13-year collaboration that unfolds from professional exchange into personal involvement amid the realities of reporting on the Syrian war.
Sundance 2026 Review: SOFT BOIL, Anxiety and Cringe Collide in an Acid Quarter-Life Crisis Rom-Com
In the pilot of Soft Boil, director Alec Goldberg and lead actress and co-writer Camille Wormser sketch a tightly observed portrait of early adulthood that channels contemporary American indie comedy through anxiety, volatility, and low-stakes personal collapse.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: SENTIMENTAL VALUE Filmmakers Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt on Intergenerational Cinema, Creative Control, Why European Films Are Winning Again
Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt reflect on how long-term collaboration, actor-centered process, and a resolutely European production ethos shaped a film built around time, absence, and the quiet mechanics of family power.
Berlinale 2026: Exclusive THE RIVER TRAIN Poster Premiere
An austere yet intuitive debut, the film observes childhood not as innocence lost but as a state of restless transit, where movement, solitude, and imagination quietly collide.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: SIRAT Director Oliver Laxe on Shock Therapy Cinema and Why Films Must Risk the Abyss
Oliver Laxe talks about fear, faith, and the physical limits he believes cinema must still be willing to cross.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: SOUND OF FALLING Director Mascha Schilinski on Transgenerational Trauma, Radical Subjectivity, Quiet Violence of Memory
Mascha Schilinski's film moves fluidly across time, perspective, and inner states, positioning itself as a rigorously authored work.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: RIEFENSTAHL Filmmaker Andres Veiel on Myth, Guilt, Fascist Aesthetics
Drawing on unprecedented access to Leni Riefenstahl's estate, Andres Veiel reflects on the long ethical labour of archival authorship, the filmmaker's complicity with power, and why confronting fascist imagery requires intellectual proximity rather than historical distance.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: FRANZ Star Idan Weiss on Becoming Kafka, Rejecting the Biopic Formula, Trusting Agnieszka Holland's Process
The German actor reflects on the risks of inhabiting an over-mythologised literary figure, the freedoms and uncertainties of a fragmented docu-fiction form, and how performance emerges when authorship, history, and interpretation remain deliberately unresolved.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: ARCO Director Ugo Bienvenu on Imagining the Future, Trusting Children, Avoiding Dystopia
French filmmaker and graphic novelist Ugo Bienvenu reflects on authorship in animation, the responsibilities of speculative storytelling, and the challenges of sustaining handcrafted cinema within a rapidly shifting global industry.
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS Review: Normal People and Normal Problems Paint Unusual Family Portrait
Icelandic auteur Hlynur Pálmason's layered but fragmentary family portrait approaches a kind of mundane surrealism, with lyricism and strange humor.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: DOG OF GOD Directors Lauris and Raitis Ābele on Adult Animation, Rotoscoping, Blender
Latvian filmmakers Lauris and Raitis Ābele reflect on the making of their dark, folkloric animated feature, and discuss the creative and production choices behind the project.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: BUGONIA Production Designer James Price
James Price talks about how the film's meticulously constructed world, anchored in physical reality, narrative logic, and creative risk, became a decisive element of its unsettling power.
European Film Awards 2026: SENTIMENTAL VALUE Dominates
'Sentimental Value' led the European Film Awards 2026 with six wins, followed closely by 'Sirāt', which secured five awards.
