International: Latin America
New York 2026 Review: DOUBLE FREEDOM Asks If We Were Ever Truly Free
Argentine director Lisandro Alonso makes a sequel to his debut film, a quarter century later.
SUCUMBIR (SUCCUMB): Your First Look at Colombian Rural Horror, Heading to Sitges Next Month
In an isolated rural community in the Colombian mountains, evil takes shape inside Abraham and Isabel's home through the existence of Lazarus. Guided by their own local beliefs and ancestral rituals, they confront the unknown in a desperate attempt to end their torment.
LA MANCHA (YOU'RE IT) Trailer: New Horror From The Garcia Bogliano Brothers
Inside an amusement park, a group of children and teenagers become trapped in a dark curse connecting them to a parallel world.
Now On Demand: MISTURA, Peruvian Comfort Food
Barbara Mori, César "Pudy" Ballumbrosio, Christian Meier, and Hermelinda Luján star in Ricardo de Montreuil's crowdpleasing film.
Toronto 2026: Wrap -- All Our Coverage (So Far)
Our curtain raiser, our reviews, our poster columns, and an interview.
Toronto 2026 Review: EVERYTHING ELSE IS NOISE
Opening with one of the most pleasurable and ambient scenes of 2026, Everything Else Is Noise announces its intentions immediately. Gridlocked traffic in a Mexico City intersection struggles to move and to find space in a complex interactive dance, while...
Toronto 2026 Review: WILD HORSE NINE, All Flourish and No Feeling
What does Salvadore Allende’s 9/11, Hank Williams, the JFK assassination, and an empathy for insects have in common? How does a stable democracy result in homosexuality, which leads, eventually, to fine quality cheeses? Writer-director hyphenate Martin McDonagh is here to...
THE SECRET AGENT 4K Review: A Masterpiece of Memory and Resistance
It's hard to fathom, even in hindsight, how a film about a dictatorship, its long reach into the lives of seemingly ordinary people, a love of old movie houses and carnivals, and something of an experimental narrative structure, could translate...
Friday One Sheet: HOMBRE AL AGUA
The poster for Gael Garcia Bernal's latest film, Hombre Al Agua (aka Man Overboard!) has a retro vibe not seen too much these days. It was designed by the iconic Edel Rodríguez Mola (or simply Mola), who is known for...
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: THE RIVERBANK Turns Queer Desire Into a Defiant Neo-Noir
Brazilian filmmakers Enock Carvalho and Matheus Farias make an atmospheric feature debut with a slow-burning queer neo-noir that pits intimacy and solidarity against the murderous politics of the militarized religious right.
Locarno 2026 Interview: DONKEY PRINCESS Filmmakers Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña Say "Jan Švankmajer Is Our Father"
The acclaimed Chilean duo discusses expanding their handmade cinematic language into live action and drawing on the formative influence of Jan Švankmajer.
Locarno 2026 Interview: THE DAYS OFF Filmmaker Lucila Mariani Discusses Internet Nostalgia
Plus: Reality shifting, and an ominous eclipse.
Toronto 2026: Frontières And TIFF: The Genre Co-production Market Announces Seven Projects For Inaugural Showcase
Our friends at Frontières have announced the seven projects the will present during their inaugrual showcase at TIFF: The Market.
TERROR OF THE ANDES (El Ucumar): Argentine Creature Feature Starts Streaming on Bloodstream on August 11th
Biologists searching the Argentine jungle encounter the legendary Ucumar and fight to survive its deadly wrath.
Opening This Week: TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, ICE CREAM MAN, TONY
Plus: 'Late Fame,' 'Mr. Hero,' 'Olmo,' 'Julian,' 'Cookie Monsters.'
Fantasia 2026 Shorts: Beauty in The Light, The Dark, Out There And in Each Other in Shorts Programme
The best festivals draw in the the best films and filmmakers. That goes for features, it also goes for short films, and Fantasia's short film programme is a entire beast of it's own. The full lineup of over two...
Criterion in September 2026: THE SECRET AGENT, Richard Linklater's NOUVELLE VAGUE, THREE FILMS BY LEOS CARAX
Plus: Satyajit Ray's 'Days and Nights in the Forest,' Sergei Loznitsa's 'Two Prosecutors,' Sidney Lumet's '12 Angry Men,' Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary 'Shoah.'
PACIFICO: Spanish Language Sci-fi Creature Feature Will Premiere at Bifan
With Bifan announcing films for this year's lineup comes news that Gonzalo Gutiérrez's sci-fi ceature feature, Pacifico, has made the cut and will have its World Premiere there. In the film, a group of young travelers are stranded on...
THE DEVIL QUEEN Review: Blood and Glitter in the Streets of Rio
The seedy underbelly of 1970s Rio de Janeiro: drugs and strippers, singers and drag queens, fast cars and fast sex, shaved legs and slit throats, crime and punishment. But most importantly: guns and glitter. Do some of these points feel...
