Sophy Romvari has used cinema to mine the fractured, seemingly incomplete nature of her family history since her first short film, Nine Behind. In that…
The Part-Time shorts program, in collaboration with Now Instant Image Hall, was presented at the Los Angeles Festival of Movies in two blocks. The first…
After it was reported that MUBI had received a $100 million investment from venture capitalists with ties to an Israeli defense tech firm in May…
“The working man is a sucker” — so reads the opening title card of Joel Alfonso Vargas’ debut feature, Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny,…
In my day job as a college writing instructor, there is a lot of talk about “multi-modal composition.” This simply means that instead of remaining…
Excepting the newly bicurious and the chronically polyamorous, most people will adore Erupcja for the wrong reasons. Pete Ohs’ sixth narrative feature has, on the…
In this dispatch: Leviticus, Kika, Strange…
Much digital ink has been spilled over whether now, more than ever, we need positive queer images in popular media. As the world skids further…
Clemente Castor’s Cold Metal is a difficult film to wrap one’s head around. It’s a small-scale, profoundly opaque object that rejects traditional narrative in favor…
Social realism is alive and well and living in Belgium — but you knew that already, given that it’s the Dardennes’ home court. It may…
If, with Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino set a 21st century standard for leisurely, sun-dappled, queer coming-of-age films, then, nearly a decade later,…
Why are filmmakers today so afraid of melodrama? Many’s a recent feature, from the acclaimed (Celine Song’s Past Lives) to the less so (Luca Guadagnino’s…
Having decided myself to migrate from a Toronto suburb to Montreal in my young adulthood shortly after hearing Visions for the first time, I am…
I watched two films from IFFR’s 2025 festival: one was The Last Dance, the smash hit Hong Kong family melodrama set in the world of…
In This Dispatch: Dao, We Are the Fruits…
Where do you go once you’ve reached the top? By 2007, Juliette Binoche was running out of peaks to summit: she’d won international acclaim with…
It’s easy to be lulled by the hum of rolling highways and pleasant conversation; they abound in Sebastian Brameshuber’s new film, London, which follows Bobby…
About a million Russians have left their country since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, fleeing the draft and/or political repercussions for dissent.…
Burak Çevik’s films often use a narrative framework as a jumping-off point for formal experimentation. This is perhaps best seen in his 2019 feature Belonging,…
Amit Dutta’s fluid conception of art forms extends to the way he conceives of artists as well. Not bound by standardized, snobbish definitions that often…
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at 2026’s Sundance Film Festival, To Hold a Mountain, from directors Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić, holds its observational…