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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...

Former congressman Rubens (Selton Mello) and his wife Eunice (Fernanda Torres) lead an...

Ariane Labed has until now been best known for her Volpi Cup-winning role in the...

In the sparkling bathroom of a high-end Seattle building, a cleaning lady...

Musical artists don’t come more self-aware than James Blunt. Celebrating the 20th...

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...