MARIINKA
Winner of the Audience Award at CPH:DOX, where it opened the festival, Mariinka is Pieter-Jan De Pue’s long-awaited second feature after his Sundance award-winning debut, The Land of the Enlightened. This is not simply another film about war. Shot on 16mm over nearly a decade, it follows young Ukrainians in the frontline town of Mariinka […]
THE CALF DOLL
Ankur Hooda’s The Calf Doll is a poetic, meditative work that offers a haunting portrait of India’s changing rural landscape. The story follows an elderly retired professor in a fog-shrouded Haryanvi village who faces profound despair after his cow delivers a stillborn calf. To ease the mother’s grief and allow her to be milked, he […]
DREAM OF ANOTHER SUMMER
A powerful sense of precarity hangs over Beirut. Following the catastrophic port explosion on August 4, 2020, filmmaker Irene Bartolomé chose not to immediately capture the physical debris. Instead, having made the city her home for six years, she took the necessary time to explore a deeper, more intimate question: how do we heal alongside […]
NUISANCE BEAR
What happens when an ancient migration path intersects with a booming tourist town? In Nuisance Bear, Canadian filmmakers Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman turn the traditional nature documentary inside out.Set across Churchill, Manitoba, and the Inuit community of Arviat, Nunavut, this feature-length documentary follows a polar bear whose seasonal migration path intersects with modern […]
THE GARDEN WE DREAMED
In the quiet, shaded depths of the Mexican forest, a small Haitian family seeks a new beginning. But this is no ordinary forest; it is the winter sanctuary of the Monarch butterfly, a creature that performs one of nature’s most improbable miracles. In The Garden We Dreamed Of, director Joaquín del Paso invites us to […]
EUPHORIA
In Rosefeldt’s Manifesto (GFF 2017), Cate Blanchett played 13 different roles. This time, she lends her voice to a majestic tiger looting a supermarket. Giancarlo Esposito also returns in the role of the New York cab driver we remember from Jarmusch’s Night on Earth. Drawing on the ideas and writings of Plato, Angela Davis, Karl […]
ONLY REBELS WIN
FATHERLAND
A writer comes home, and home has become a question he cannot answer. It is 1949. After sixteen years in exile, Thomas Mann travels through a ruined, divided Germany to receive the Goethe Prize. His daughter Erika, herself an actress and writer, drives their black Buick from American-controlled Frankfurt toward Soviet-controlled Weimar. Mann is being […]
FJORD
Fresh from winning the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, this masterclass in social realism arrives as one of the most anticipated and discussed features of the year. Mungiu’s English-language debut brilliantly exposes a devastating cultural collision, refusing to lecture the audience or offer easy moral categories.The plot follows a conservative Romanian-Norwegian couple, […]