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Midway through To A Land Unknown, Palestinian-Danish filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel’s narrative feature debut, Palestinian cousins stranded in Athens—sharp Chatila (Mahmood Bakri), his wife and kid back in ...

Jessica Blank have been called “the foremost practitioners of documentary theater in the U.S.” Their genre-defining plays The Exonerated, Aftermath, Coal Country, and The Line were all critically ...

Rita Azevedo Gomes on Fuck the Polis. In Rita Azevedo Gomes’ cinematic universe, a characteristic blend of literary adaptation and cinematic innovatio ...

I reached out to Caroline Golum because I found myself curious: not just about the film itself, but about her process, commitment, and rigor that shaped it. The film draws […] ...

Dmytro Hreshko on Karlovy Vary-Premiering Ukrainian War Documentary Divia. At a time when observation remains the dominant approach ...

Making its world premiere at FIDMarseille 2025, Polis follows Irma, who around twenty years ago, believing herself condemned, traveled to Greece. She now retraces that journey, moving from island to ...

Dmytro Hreshko on Karlovy Vary-Premiering Ukrainian War Documentary Divia. At a time when observation remains the dominant approach ...

After eight years—much of them spent developing projects that never came to fruition—Mud and Midnight Special filmmaker Jeff Nichols is thankfully back with a new movie. That means cinematographer ...

Shot and set in Gravesend, a town in Kent, England, Andrea Arnold’s new film Bird, starring newcomer Nykiya Adams alongside Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski, is a portrait of a young girl coming of ...