All Festivals articles – Page 6
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Reviews‘The Color Of The Sun’ review: Sensual Okinawa-set coming-of-age tale makes for a striking, enigmatic debut
Venice Horizons title is visually assured exploration of adolescence against the tensions of contemporary Okinawa
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NewsEllen Burstyn on working in her nineties: “It’s not some man’s life I’m helping out with”
Burstyn was first on the call sheet for Kornel Mundruczo’s Venice title ‘Place To Be’.
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Reviews‘I Matter’ review: Romanian children’s home drama is sometimes conventional, always authentic
Roma actress and filmmaker Alina Serban’s heartfelt feature bows in Venice Spotlight
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Reviews‘Union Town’ review: Fifty years after ‘Harlan County, USA’, Barbara Kopple returns to the frontline of America’s labour struggle
The veteran documentarian’s absorbing portrait of the gig economy is the third in her ‘labour rights’ trilogy
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NewsDid the Lumière Summit deliver on its lofty ambitions?
Attendees reflect on what was actually achieved.
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NewsSpanish government grants €500,000 to San Sebastian festival industry programme
The funding is part of a new package of financial support announced for Spain’s film sector.
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NewsIsrael’s Sam Spiegel lab awards $70,000 in prizes at Venice Production Bridge
Lab saw 10 projects pitched to jury including Christian J. Vesper, Gabor Greiner.
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Reviews‘Company’ review: Casey Affleck directs, co-writes and stars in atmospheric but convoluted slice of American Gothic
Nick Nolte, Scott McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn and Emily Alyn Lind also star in Affleck’s twisting Venice competititon premiere
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Reviews‘Bunker’ review: Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz navigate a marriage under siege in Florian Zeller’s elegant drama
Stephen Graham also stars in Zeller’s London-set Venice competition title
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Reviews‘Musk’ review: Alex Gibney presents a gripping if glossy study of controversial billionaire Elon Musk
Gibney’s exhaustive documentary plays Venice ahead of berths in Toronto and London
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NewsEmily Atef’s ‘Call Me Queen’ joins Filmfest Hamburg’s full 2026 lineup
Helen Mirren will receive the 2026 Douglas Sirk award.
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Reviews‘A Common Story’ review: Alba Rohrwacher is extraordinary in distinctive, daring Italian empty nest drama
Anna Foglietta’s accomplished debut premieres in Venice Horizons
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News‘Musk’ contributor Ashley St. Clair says she declined $40m from Elon Musk to exit the film
St. Clair says the offer came from Musk, via his business manager.
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NewsIs the US indie sector ready to embrace TIFF: The Market?
“Everybody will be seeing what is useful and what works and doesn’t work.”
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Reviews‘A Day In The Life Of Jo: Chapter Phaedra’ review: Formally bold, compassionate drama is inspired by a real-life Greek tragedy
The 2008 police killing of a teenager in Athens informs Jacqueline Lentzou’s audacious Venice Horizons title
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NewsIra Sachs to head San Sebastian competition jury
The festival has also unveiled the jury for the €50,000 Kutxabank-New Directors prize.
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Reviews‘The Burning Giants’ review: Shape-shifting Thai displacement drama blurs myth and reality
’Manta Ray’ director Phuttiphong Aroonpheng turns his attention to marginalised S’gaw community in ambitious third feature
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Reviews‘No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman’ review: Tense, blunt-edged Kurdish war thriller follows a female sniper in Iraq
Halkawt Mustafa’s female-led action drama brings glossy genre mechanics to a story of Kurdish resistance
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Reviews‘Conversation With The Sea’ review: Kamel El Basha anchors Muayad Alayan’s uneven Palestinian drama
A Jerusalem-set mystery turns one man’s private reckoning into a pointed portrait of Palestinian life in Israel
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Reviews‘The Spiral’ review: Paolo Strippoli’s dark Italian family fable promises more than it delivers
Star Valeria Bruni Tedeschi impresses in this stylish but increasingly repetitive Faustian horror