This may very well be the year of Jafar Panahi. Now able to move freely outside of his home country of Iran, the Palme d’Or winner is set to embark on a U.S. promotional tour to screen his awards contender, […]

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After his romantic drama Genesis, Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage is back with a new lush, intimate drama Who By Fire. It follows two families on a secluded getaway in the forest as they content with romantic intricacies and simmering tensions. […]

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Premiering at last year’s DOC NYC, as well as numerous other festivals, Emily Packer’s documentary Holding Back the Tide gives a poetic look at the lives of oysters (a living creature) in New York City. While charting their presence in […]

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A Moroccan dressmaker, his dying wife, and his young male apprentice are caught up in a love triangle in Maryam Touzani’s The Blue Caftan. The romantic drama premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, and […]

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Croatian writer/director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović feature debut, Murina, is a coming-of-age tale that follows a teenage girl trying to break free of her domineering family life as she finds hope in the form of an attraction to a much older […]

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