International: Europe

HONEY BUNCH Review: How Love Survives. But Should It?

Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Jason Isaacs, and Kate Dickie star in a gothic psychological thriller, directed by Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli.

AGENT ZERO Trailer Exclusive: International Action Flick on Digital And VOD This March

A young French woman hiding a dangerous past, has finally carved out a quiet life in the stunning country of Morocco. But when her boyfriend is gunned down and left in a coma, the peace she's built collapses. Forced to resurrect the ruthless intelligence operative she once was, Agent Zero hunts down those who betrayed her mercilessly and without hesitation.

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.

Rotterdam 2026: BAZAAR (MURDER IN THE BUILDING), On Lions in the Highlands, Or, The Eternal Life of Alfred Hitchcock

With Bazaar (Murder in the Building), Rémi Bezançon delivered the intended closing film of IFFR: a playful homage to filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. One of Hitchcock's finest films, Rear Window, is about watching, listening, and cinema itself. Photojournalist Jeff, accustomed to...

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: TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN, Farmers in Montenegro Fight for Their Land

Directed by Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić, the documentary follows what happens when residents fight back against politicians.

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.

PILLION Review: Unexpectedly Tender Romance Featuring Bikers, BDSM, and a Road to Self Discovery

Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling star in writer-director Harry Lighton's romantic drama.

Now Streaming: SEASONS, Kicking, Screaming, and Accepting

Lukasz Simlat and Agnieszka Duleba-Kasza star in director Michał Grzybowski's rousing, piercing drama (with shots of comedy).

THE FORBIDDEN CITY Trailer: Gabriele Mainetti's Martial Arts Epic Coming to Digital This March

Gabriele Mainetti's standout martial arts action epic, The Forbidden City, is coming to digital on March 17th. The release comes from the good folks at Well Go USA, and they put out the trailer today. You definitely want to check...

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.

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.

Rotterdam 2026 Review: PROVIDENCE AND THE GUITAR Falls Silent on the 21st Century

Directed by Portugal's João Nicolau, the film enjoyed its world premiere as the opening night selection of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).

Sundance 2026 Review: JARIPEO, Queer Identity in Masculine Arena

Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig offer a glimpse into the lives of Mexican queer cowboys in their documentary.