Interview: Susanne Brandstaetter on her curious sci fi documentary Hungry (IFFR 2026)
In a near food-apocalyptic reality on Earth, humans have gone extinct. Traces of the built environment evince their former existence...
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Los Domingos (Sundays) Review (IFFR 2026)
Religious exploration has long been a subject filmmakers tackle head-on. Sometimes drawn to aggression, sometimes armed with a mysterious whim,...
Cyclone Review (IFFR 2026)
A cyclone is a mass of air rotating under conditions of low atmospheric pressure. Although many of us will never...
First Days Review (IFFR 2026)
Dying, they say, is like crossing towards bliss, through a land of brilliant light and powerful sound. Those who have...
White Lies Review (IFFR 2026)
Alba Zari, photographer and documentarist, has built her artistic practice around an insistence on inquiry. A survivor of the Children...
Tell Me What You Feel Review (IFFR 2026)
If it needs saying, the Warsaw art scene is fiery. From formal institutions to less visible initiatives, artists build cultures...
Chronovisor Review (IFFR 2026)
Imagine if the Vatican had in its possession a device able to detect residual electromagnetic radiation and reconstruct images and...
Butterfly Review (IFFR 2026)
Two seemingly diametrically different half-sisters reunite in the distant Gran Canaria, following their mother’s peculiar death on the island. Together,...
Blood Red Documentary Review (IDFA 2025)
In all honesty, I cannot remember the last time my guts issued an absolute eye-turn away from the screen. If...
32 Meters Review (IDFA 2025)
We are somewhere in southern Turkey, in Central Anatolia, in a traditional village. Residents gather and talk along the streets,...
Past Future Continuous Review (IDFA 2025)
Maryam, an only child, belongs to the large wave of young Iranians who fled to America after the eruption of...
Days of Wonders Review (PÖFF)
“Does art exist if no one has seen it?” The line appears somewhere in the film’s 88-minute runtime, and it...
On the Sea Review (Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2025)
On the Sea is like a Sunday read; as if begotten from a contemporary literary classic, this story sets out...
Bearcave Review (Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2025)
Remember the fun Marie I and Marie II had while playing with the world (and each other) in Věra Chytilová’s...