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.
Serial Killer Brno 2025 Interview: GENERATIONS' Anna Emma Haudal on Ghosts, Inheritance, and Hidden Traumas We Carry
Anna Emma Haudal unpacks the making of her series, revealing how she transformed a crime framework into a deeply personal exploration of family, shame, and the invisible threads that connect generations.
Toronto 2025 Review: FOLLIES Portrays Polyamory's Awkward Learning Curve
Canadian filmmaker Eric K. Boulianne examines the shifting dynamics of long-term intimacy through the lens of non-monogamy, framing a comedy of sexual curiosity that doubles as a study of identity, desire, and generational change.
Toronto 2025 Review: LOVELY DAY Turns a Wedding Movie Into a Neurotic Comedy of Errors
Philippe Falardeau adapts Alain Farah's autobiographical novel into a formally restless portrait of anxiety and memory, using the wedding-movie framework less to stage a union than to examine the unstable ground beneath it.
Toronto 2025 Review: FRANZ Uses a Fragmented, Hybrid Form to Portray Kafka Beyond the Conventional Biopic
Selected as Poland's submission for the Academy Awards, Agnieszka Holland's film approaches the challenge of depicting Franz Kafka through a fragmented docu-fiction form that reflects the author's elusive legacy.
Toronto 2025 Interview: LOVELY DAY, Philippe Falardeau Talks Adapting Alain Farah's Novel, Visualizing Anxiety, Deconstructing the Wedding Film
Philippe Falardeau discusses the making of his bold and unconventional adaptation of Alain Farah's autobiographical novel, which reframes the wedding film as a playful yet unsettling exploration of memory, anxiety, and cultural identity.
Toronto 2025 Interview: TO THE VICTORY!, Valentyn Vasyanovych Talks Dystopian Comedy, Wartime Filmmaking, His Lead Role
Valentyn Vasyanovych discusses the making of his latest film, from stepping in front of the camera to navigating wartime production realities.
Busan 2025 Interview: HANA KOREA, Frederik Sølberg on Directing Across Cultures, Casting Minha Kim
Danish filmmaker Frederik Sølberg discusses his fiction debut, an immersive and collaborative drama that bridges documentary sensibilities with narrative cinema to portray the complex realities of North Korean refugees in the South.
San Sebastian 2025: Exclusive WEIGHTLESS Poster Premiere
Premiering in San Sebastián, Weightless is a sensuous and unflinching coming-of-age drama that captures the fragile exhilaration of adolescence through the eyes of a girl learning to claim her place in the world.
San Sebastian 2025 Preview: Holland, Denis, Berger, and Fonzi in the Main Competition
The 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival returns with a line-up that blends auteur-driven world premieres, political storytelling, and formally ambitious discoveries across its main sections.
