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Mati Diop documents the repatriation of stolen African treasures from France.

Everything is ready for the 14th edition of the Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM (FICUNAM), which will take place from June 13 to 20 in Mexico City. As part of the Atlas section, we will finally be able to see...

Sengelase filmmaking comes through with a one-two punch in back-to-back Blu-rays.

Jeff Barnaby’s Blood Quantum is a very singular zombie film, set in a First Nations reserve in Canada called Red Crow. Structurally, Blood Quantum follows pretty much two days in the lives of several characters from the reserve, including the chief...

As 2019 comes to an end, ScreenAnarchy’s global team of critics and cineastes weighs in with our favourite cinematic offerings from the past 12 months, which saw Netflix lead the charge for cementing the legitimacy of the streaming platforms, while...

Expertly weaving the current headlines of marine disasters and the ghost story with the female solidarity twist, 'Atlantics' has all the right ingredient to be a success story of a small art film breakthrough, recalling 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.'

Matias Piñeiro's Hermia & Helena begins almost identically as his last film Princess of France, looking down at a soccer field. But they are two very different films. Even though his usual light-as-feather approach at twenty-something's bohemian lives and romantic...

Welcome back to The Stack. I'm sneaking this episode in before I leave for Fantastic Fest; it's a light week but there are some real gems here. For those not easily offended, Hidden in the Woods from Artsploitation will probably offend you...

The glowing reviews are piling up for Antonio Compos' Simon Killer, director of the critically acclaimed Afterschool. Brady Corbet (Melancholia, Martha Marcy May Marlene) stars as the eponymous US college student who heads to Europe looking for excitement following some...

Simon Killer, the emotionally compelling and visually stunning new film from Afterschool director Antonio Campos, is coming to UK screens this April, courtesy of Eureka Entertainment. The film debuted at Sundance last year, where it collected a horde of positive...

Looks like the city of light just got a little darker. The trailer for Antonio Campos' follow-up to Afterschool, Simon Killer, has arrived, and while it literally pulses with energy, it's not the happy kind. The story goes like this:...

From Borderline films, the trio of producer/directors responsible for indie darling Martha Marcy May Marlene, comes the uplifting story of an American in Paris who finds solace in the thighs of a young prostitute. Simon is his name and killing...