Oliver Laxe talks about fear, faith, and the physical limits he believes cinema must still be willing to cross.
We have been fans of director Adrián García Bogliano ever since his films Cold Sweat (reviewed here) and Here Comes the Devil (reviewed here), so we consider it good news when a new film by him comes out. Yesterday, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) hosted the world première of Talking to a Stranger, a horror drama in which Bogliano pushes any fun exploitation into the background, focusing instead on the immense sadness following the loss of a child. In the film, we follow Patricia, a woman tortured by grief and guilt after a particularly cruel accident resulted in seeing her young son Chris burn to death in front of her. Her husband and family try but fail to provide solace, and her depression deepens…
Writer-director NB Mager’s debut feature stars Alyssa Marvin, Patrick Wilson, Margaret Cho, Sophia Torres, Elizabeth Marvel, and Molly Ringwald.
Ikuto and Ryoma meet in juvenile detention and become best friends. They pursue their dream of participating in the martial arts event Breaking Down. However, rivalries soon turn their dreams into unexpected conflicts.
In the winter of 1982, three American boys find themselves stranded in a cable car with a dead body, suspended midair in the mountains of Norway during a rare celestial event.
Mascha Schilinski’s film moves fluidly across time, perspective, and inner states, positioning itself as a rigorously authored work.
NEON is releasing Genki Kawarmura’s thriller, the live-action adaptation of the popular video game, this April.
Pakistani cinema has been shaped by both veteran and emerging filmmakers, whose contrasting approaches to style and storytelling define the industry today. While pioneers worked within technical and structural constraints to establish cinematic traditions, the new generation is pushing boundaries with modern narratives and innovative techniques. Veteran Pakistani filmmakers have shaped the nation’s cinema through diverse genres. Some of the well-known names are Syed Noor, Shamim Ara, Sangeeta, Pervez Malik, Riaz Shahid, and many more. There was a time when their films not only dominated popular culture but also reflected the social and cultural sensibilities of their respective eras. The films produced particularly from the 1960s to the 1990s used limited resources, however, relying on older camera equipment, which often forced the recycling of the…
While many films (and art in general) grapple with the question of what it means to be human, science fiction offers the tropes and syntax to make that question more palpable, or give means to approach it from an atypical perspective. For filmmaker Aaron Silverstein, approaching the question of what makes our existence unique (as far as we know) finds engagement in the form of an alien presence deeply hostile to human shape and existence in his feature film debut, The Infinite Husk. While not entirely successful in its execution, it nonetheless asks familiar questions in a philosophically surreal tone, anchored by an excellent lead performance. Vel (Peace Ikediuba) is the member of an alien species: one that exists without physical form, able to roam the…
Drawing on unprecedented access to Leni Riefenstahl’s estate, Andres Veiel reflects on the long ethical labour of archival authorship, the filmmaker’s complicity with power, and why confronting fascist imagery requires intellectual proximity rather than historical distance.