INVENTION Review: Grief, Legacy, and Myth Collide in Hybrid Dramedy
Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez created a film that intricately blends personal history, archival footage, and fictional narrative to explore themes of grief, memory, and the fine line between reality and fantasy.
Series Mania 2025 Review: PUTAIN Captures the Somber Drift of Adolescence
Created and written by Frederik Daem and directed by Deben Van Dam, the series is set against the backdrop of contemporary Brussels, offering a fragmented yet intimate study of adolescence.
Series Mania 2025 Review: MUSSOLINI: SON OF THE CENTURY, Fascism as a Burlesque Theatre
Director Joe Wright gives his Mussolini biopic a 'Les Miz' treatment in a burlesque political miniseries about the rise of fascism.
CPH:DOX 2025: Exclusive GIRLS & GODS Poster Premiere
Feminist activist Inna Shevchenko trades protest for conversation in a documentary that confronts the uneasy intersection of religion and women's rights on a global scale.
AUM: THE CULT AT THE END OF THE WORLD Review: Investigating Doomsday
Directors Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto dig into the origins and evolution of a group that committed the poison gas attack in Japan in 1995.
Series Mania 2025 Preview: History Repeats, Families Argue, and a Pop Star Gets Audited
Series Mania 2025 captures the shifting tides of geopolitics, identity, and personal struggle, offering a lineup where history informs the present and storytelling challenges societal norms.
CPH:DOX 2025: Exclusive THE LAST AMBASSADOR Poster and Clip Premiere
Natalie Halla's documentary follows Afghan ambassador Manizha Bakhtari as she navigates diplomatic exile and advocates for women's rights after the Taliban's return to power.
Berlinale 2025 Review: LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS Merges Irreverent Humor with Queer Sci-Fi Coming of Age
Leela Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs directed the funniest film of this year's Berlinale, a campy queer coming-of-age space opera.
Berlinale 2025 Review: 1001 FRAMES Exposes Power, Performance, and Control
Mehrnoush Alia's audition thriller examines the blurred boundaries between artistic authority and coercion in an Iranian take on a casting couch.
Berlinale 2025 Review: REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND Dissects the Eurospy Genre
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani continue their deconstruction of genre cinema in a visual rollercoaster, consisting of formal pyrotechnics and a disorienting narrative.
Berlinale 2025 Review: WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU, Subtle Shifts and Social Barriers in Hong Sangsoo's Latest
Hong Sangsoo's latest film continues his exploration of fleeting social encounters, using his signature minimalism to dissect class, artistic ambition, and underlying tensions within intimate spaces.
Berlinale 2025 Review: DREAMS (SEX LOVE), Shapeshifting Coming-of-Age Examines Desire Across Three Generations
Dag Johan Haugerud examines the fluid boundaries between love, desire, and memory in a film where language shapes both personal discovery and intergenerational reflection.
Berlinale 2025 Review: THE BLUE TRAIL Reimagines Aging in a Dystopian Future
Gabriel Mascaro continues his exploration of hybrid storytelling with a dystopian fable that reimagines aging as an act of defiance.
Berlinale 2025 Review: KONTINENTAL '25, Between Docu-Essay and Dramedy, Romanian Punk Neorealism
Radu Jude's latest film continues his engagement with social critique in exploration of guilt, complicity, and systemic inertia while returning to the stripped-down aesthetics of his earlier works.
Berlinale 2025 Review: CONFIDANTE, Power and Morality Collide in Chamber Thriller
Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti craft a restrained chamber thriller, merging socio-political inquiry with genre filmmaking to explore agency, entrapment, and power dynamics within the confines of an erotic call center in late-1990s Turkey.
Sundance 2025 Review: PREDATORS Unveils a Dark Legacy
David Osit's documentary revisits 'To Catch a Predator,' a popular television show with a controversial legacy.
Sundance 2025 Review: 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA, Brutal Realities of Modern Warfare
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov offers an unvarnished and unflinching look at the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Berlinale 2025 Preview: Richard Linklater, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Radu Jude, Hong Sangsoo, Gabriel Mascaro
The 2025 Berlinale Film Festival marks a new chapter in its storied history, debuting under the artistic leadership of Tricia Tuttle with a line-up that seeks to embrace audience friendly world cinema.
Rotterdam 2025 Review: ACTS OF LOVE Attempts to Unearth the Repressed Past
Jeppe Rønde's family drama tackles memory, trauma, and transgression in a small New Age Christian community.
Sundance 2025 Review: COEXISTENCE, MY ASS!, Comedian's Pursuit of Middle East Peace
Director Amber Fares follows comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi, who uses humor to navigate the fraught landscape of Israeli-Palestinian relations.
