Winner of the Best Director and Best Actor awards at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, The Secret Agent, from Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau), takes place in 1977 during Brazil’s military dictatorship. It was a time of violence and […]

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Filmmaker and visual artist Amalia Ulman brings her bold perspective to Magic Farm, a film that examines the fraught relationship between American media and Latin American subjects. Premiering at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and later screening at Berlin, this 93-minute […]

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When words fail, cinema is the purest form of expression, believes experimental filmmaker J.D Fernández Molero. Cinema is the closest thing to dreams, in its ability to conjure existence and twist reality. Cinema is a punku,  meaning for “gateway” in […]

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Argentinian director Laura Casabé (The Returned) premiered her latest feature, The Virgin of the Quarry Lake, at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival (where I reviewed it). Based on two short stories—“Our Lady of the Quarry” and “The Cart”—by author Mariana […]

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