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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.

SIRĀT Official Trailer: Oliver Laxe's 'Meditative And Loudly Disorienting Journey' in Cinemas February

A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.

SIRAT Review: Meditative and Loudly Distorting

Directed by Oliver Luxe, the film is Spain's official Academy Award entry for Best International Feature.

Karlovy Vary 2025 Review: SIRĀT Raves at the Edge of Apocalypse

Oliver Laxe's desert rave road movie fuses Tarkovsky with 'Mad Max,' channeling enlightenment in shockwaves.

PACIFICTION Review: Party All Night With the Devil in Tahiti

Directed by Albert Serra, the film stars Benoît Magimel, Sergi López, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Cécile Guilbert, and Matahi Pambrun.

Toronto 2022 Review: PACIFICTION, Paranoia and Politics Play in Polynesia

“This is my office, and it is always trying to kill me,” pontificates the High Commissioner, a man named De Roller, as he grandstands, slinks, and politics though his duties in Albert Serra’s paranoid, sun dappled enigma. If only our...

Criterion in October 2016: A Feast of Guillermo del Toro, Euro Classics, BOYHOOD and SHORT CUTS

Debuting ten years ago, Pan's Labyrinth remains a gorgeous, haunting masterpiece, the best film Guillermo del Toro has directed so far. In October, it will be added to the Criterion Collection with a newly graded 2K digital master and new...

When Pizza Chef Poses As Mafia Don You Get CHEZ GINO

Multi-talented Samuel Benchetrit - he serves as writer, director and actor in his films - won a lot of attention in the pages of ScreenAnarchy a few years back with his debut feature, I Always Wanted To Be A Gangster....