ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT
Premiering in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, Yukiko Sode’s adaptation of Mieko Kawakami’s acclaimed novel is a tender, quietly seductive portrait of urban loneliness and the longing for connection. For cinephiles, it may evoke the intimate conversations of Éric Rohmer and the wandering female gaze of Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7, yet its […]
SENSE OF WATER
On a winter night, in the northernmost reaches of the world, Ali, an Iranian writer living in exile, retreats with his former lover, Nazanin, to a glass cabin beneath the northern lights. There, in the silence of the polar night, he intends to say goodbye. Despite facing a long prison sentence, Ali has decided to […]
ROME OPEN CITY
YESTERDAY THE EYE DIDN’T SLEEP
A truck burns in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, and a young woman, Gamra, vanishes. Her cousin Yasser goes looking for her, but on the road he strikes a man from a rival clan. The accident threatens to set off a cycle of revenge. To prevent it, his family offers his sisters, Jawaher and Rim, to the […]
DUA
Set in late-1990s Prishtina during the escalating ethnic tensions of a “war before the war,” thirteen-year-old Dua navigates puberty, community upheaval, and a parallel underground education system. After an incident shakes her community and she becomes a target of rising violence, Dua bonds with a fearless girl named Maki, discovering unexpected resistance as the threat […]
PAISAN
HOLD ONTO ME
It’s summer in Cyprus, and 11-year-old Iris is running wild through the streets with her older friend Danae when she learns that her estranged father, Aris, is back in town for his own father’s funeral. Determined to know him, Iris tracks him down to a dilapidated shipyard, where he has been keeping to himself. What […]
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 […]
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 […]
AMERICAN DOCTOR
In the heart of the Gaza Strip, the line between a hospital and a battlefield often disappears. American Doctor is a powerful, vérité-style documentary that follows three American physicians, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, and Dr. Thaer Ahmad, as they navigate the harrowing reality of providing medical care during a humanitarian crisis. Representing Jewish, […]