Few filmmakers have reinvented the language of cinema as radically as Artavazd Pelechian. Artavazd Pelechian (February 22, 1938-) is a renowned Armenian-Soviet filmmaker and theorist famous for creating the "distance montage"...

I Play Rocky: The underdog takes on Hollywood Peter Farrelly’s crowd-pleasing account of how Sylvester Stallone fought to become Rocky Balboa opens Cairo’s 47th International Film Festival. There is a plucky irony...

Dir: Robert Aldrich | US Psychological Drama 107’ Robert Aldrich takes what initially appears to be a conventional melodrama and steers it into considerably darker psychological territory, with Joan Crawford playing...

Dir: Andrew Haigh | Drama 117’ 2026 A Long Winter certainly lives up to its title, unfolding at a pace that feels drawn out in contrast to the abrupt and brutal...

Dir: Mariko Minoguchi | Adventure thriller 2026 The Other Side (Die andere Seite) takes the familiar nightmare of a deadly pandemic and turns it inside out. Rather than following the healthy...

Austria’s Uncomfortable Cinema: The 1990s on Film For much of the 20th century, Austria had cultivated an image of itself as Europe’s gracious, cultured middle ground: Vienna, waltzes, coffee houses, imperial...

Dir: Robert Aldrich | Drama 30´ The Greatest Mother of ’Em All is a possibly the most most bizarre Hollywood outing you’ll ever see. In fact, you’re unlikely ever to get...

Dir| Vincent Munier | France Doc 93’ The misty forests of the Vosges provide the setting for Vincent Munier’s immersive Whispers in the Woods, a film that feels as much like...

Picasso and Bacon: The Tormented Human Figure Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon never became artistic partners, nor did they share the same vision of the world. Yet their relationship, explored in...