All posts tagged film festival

The artist as a reluctant idol, detached from the influence they wield, is...

Mary Bronstein’s long-awaited return after her 2008...

In a near future eerily similar to our own, Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue...

A certain melancholia lingers over Honey Bunch, the latest from writer-director...

One of the changes under Tricia Tuttle’s first Berlinale is the introduction of...

The 75th edition of the Berlinale seemed set on breaking with stereotypes. Perhaps a shock to many, the Competition film that garnered the most laughs from its international audience was the sole German entry, What Marielle Knows. Even the decision to include Frédéric Hambalek’s sophomore feature and bench more established directors into...

The story of Cinderella has been passed down across the world for...

Even with the presence of an underground heroin den, the most intriguing setting in Vivian Qu’s Girls on Wire is a sprawling film studio, where reality and performance blur but never quite merge narratively into a film-within-a-film. Instead, the cool-toned, behind-the-scenes set-up is where the film’s protagonist, Fang Di (Wen Qi), a...

In her Berlinale entry, The Ice Tower (La tour de glace), French writer and...

Unfolding over a single, high-pressure shift in a surgical ward, Petra Volpe’s...