International: Europe
Toronto 2026 Review: ALL OF A SUDDEN, Gently Drawing the Viewer Into More Difficult Realities
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's latest, All of a Sudden is a revelation. A meditation on the everyday lives of his characters and the weightier ideas orbiting them, the film transcends the experiences and ideas it presents. Considering that the film glides between...
Toronto 2026 Review: MINOTAUR, Russia As A Psychological-Visual Labyrinth
Andrey Zvyagintsev interrogates Russia in the same way 1990s era Zhang Yimou interrogated China: Methodically, metaphorically, and with an astutely savage eye for beautiful visuals to mask the criticism. There is a scene in his latest film, Minotaur, where the...
Toronto 2026 Review: FJORD, Palme D'Or Winner Finds Many Arthouse Audience Buttons to Push
Roger Ebert once described film as a “machine that generates empathy.” For writer-director Christian Mugiu, this is very much true. But what if that empathy was slyly and sharply weaponized into a provocation? Enter Fjord. In our increasingly globalized...
Toronto After Dark 2026: First Wave of Titles Announced, Featuring I LOVE PARIS, FROGMAN RETURNS, And 5 MORE MINUTES
Our friends at Toronto After Dark have announced the first four titles for this year's 19th edition of the festival. This year's festival will feature the Canadian Premiere of timey wimey flick 5 More Minutes, the fabulously funnny vampire...
Venice 2026: Exclusive UNTIL THE DAY ENDS Poster Premiere
Jelena Maksimović's fiction-feature debut, set to world premiere in the 83rd Venice International Film Festival's Orizzonti competition, follows two young people divided by politics but united by a desire for freedom.
FORTITUDE Trailer Premiere: The WWII Story That Was so Crazy, It's True
If you know your World War II history you will know about Operation Fortitude and the deception plan to convince Germany that the Allied invasion was going to happen in one place in France when it was really going to...
Locarno 2026: Asia Argento on Failure, Scandal, and Choosing the Road "That Had a Heart"
Honoured with Locarno's Lifetime Achievement Award, Asia Argento reflects on surviving childhood fame, turning trauma into 'Scarlet Diva,' rejecting Hollywood millions and finding meaning in a career.
Fantasia 2026 Wrap: All Our Reviews
Before we dive into one of Canada's other great film festivals -- yes, Toronto -- which will kick off on September 10, we wanted to look back at the mighty and mammoth Fantasia International Film Festival, held every year in...
Locarno 2026 Review: ROMA ELASTICA Cannibalizes the Myth of the Movie Star in a Delirious Cinephile Phantasmagoria
Marion Cotillard stars in Bertrand Mandico's a surrealistic tribute to golden age actresses, celluloid cinema and Italian culture.
Locarno 2026 Review: BLOODY TENNIS Serves Up a Blood-Soaked Sports-Horror Satire
Nikias Chryssos serves up a blood-soaked, darkly funny sports horror in which an elite tennis academy trains its aspiring champions through ritualized brutality.
Locarno 2026 Masterclass: Darren Aronofsky on Risk, Movie Jail, and Knowing When to Let a Film Go
Honoured with Locarno's Pardo d'Onore, Darren Aronofsky reflects on turning poverty into style, surviving "movie jail," casting actors at the right moment and learning when to let a film go.
Now Playing: IT ENDS Thrills, HOT SPOT Disappoints, INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER Limps, MUTINY Pounds Away
Last month's big-budget blockbusters The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day are still playing at multiplexes nationwide, but for those in search of something new and different, we have a few recommendations for you. First is a mind-bender that starts...
HOT SPOT Review: Memorable Visuals, But Not Enough Story or Noomi Rapace
Andrzej Konopka and Noomi Rapace star in director Agnieszka Smoczyńska's sci-fi thriller.
DER FAN Returns with a 4K Restoration Vengeance
It’s been a long time since I’ve heard hushed whispers of the subversive German thriller, Der Fan. Written and directed by the late West German provocateur Eckhart Schmidt, this film was never banned formally, more so shunned due to both...
Locarno 2026 Interview: KETTICÈ Filmmakers Luca Guadagnino and Giovanni Tortorici on Adolescent Rebellion and Protecting Cinema's Rare Roses
At Locarno, the Palermo-born director and his producer traced a line from adolescent resistance to an endangered idea of cinema, specific, unruly and built from a language of its own.
FRANZ Review: Embracing an Incomplete Life
Director Agnieszka Holland's film is a biopic of the iconic Franz Kafka, portrayed by Idan Weiss.
Locarno 2026 Interview: NOBODY'S VIOLENCE Filmmaker Denis Côté Talks Mortality and Making Cinema That "Floats"
The Québécois auteur explains how illness shaped the film's grainy 16mm aesthetic, why disciplined production is essential to improvisation, and how critical feedback informs his uncompromising filmmaking.
Locarno 2026 Industry: Growth, Risk, and the Search for a More Resilient Independent Film Business
Locarno Pro 2026 examined how new financing, co-production and audience-building models could sustain independent cinema in an increasingly uncertain market.
Locarno 2026 Interview: SIXTEEN MOMENTS OF MY LIFE Filmmaker Albert Serra Discusses Five Cameras, Six Years of Creation, and AI's Limits
The Catalan filmmaker explains why his concert film was an "accidental consequence" of six years of work, why cinematographers must edit, and why artificial intelligence can never be innocent.
Locarno 2026 Interview: OBJET A Filmmaker Ann Oren on Touch and the Ecstasy of Losing Control
Filmmaker and visual artist Ann Oren discusses how her sophomore feature draws on Lacan, touch-starved digital culture, Jan Švankmajer, surgical preparation and the dangerous promise of surrender.
