The life and career of lesbian avant-garde filmmaker Barbara Hammer is the subject of a kaleidoscopic exploration in director Byrdie O’Connor’s documentary, Barbara Forever. It premiered at this year’s Sundance, where it won the Joshua Oppenheim Editing Award in the […]

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After their stunning 2019 feature debut, Test Pattern, writer-director Shatara Michelle Ford is back with a new drama that measures the strength of friendship and chosen family. Dreams In Nightmares stars Denée Benton, Sasha Compère, and Dezi Bing as a […]

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Myrsini Aristidou is a Cypriot filmmaker born and raised in Limassol. She holds a BFA in Film and Art History from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Film Directing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and in 2016 founded […]

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The 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday, January 22 and runs through Sunday, February 1 for, sadly the last time, in and around Park City, Utah. Last year’s passing of Sundance progenitor Robert Redford kind of added a real […]

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Following their collaboration on the explosive romantic drama Passages, director Ira Sachs and star Ben Whishaw reunite for an intimate, verité-like portrait of a famed 20th-century photographer. Peter Hujar’s Day stars Whishaw and Rebecca Hall as NYC-based photographer Peter Hujar […]

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Mom and therapist Linda is having one hell of a bad day in writer-director Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. Produced by fellow masters of chaos Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, the film stars Rose Byrne as […]

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Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke, one of cinema’s iconic and enduring pairings, reunite with a musical biopic that made waves at the Berlinale this year. Blue Moon stars Hawke as lyricist Lorenz Hart, one-half of the legendary duo Rodgers and […]

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For his latest feature, Suspended Time, Olivier Assayas drew on his personal diary to revisit his experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown with humor and reminiscence. Shot on location at his late father’s home, the comedy stars his frequent collaborator Vincent Macaigne as […]

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After dissecting the concepts of love, sexuality, and gender in his previous features, Love and Sex, Norwegian filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud concludes his Oslo Trilogy with his third entry, Dreams. The film premiered at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, […]

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The 75th Berlin International Film Festival concluded over the weekend after 9 days of new innovative and daring cinema. The Todd Haynes-headed jury awarded this year’s Golden Bear for Best Film to Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s Dreams (Sex Love). […]

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