Sep 11, 2026
Dir: Lav Diaz | Drama 2026
Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors places Lav Diaz firmly back in the territory he has made unmistakably his own: the Philippine past as a living...
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Sep 11, 2026
Dir: Jelena Maksimović | Drama 2026
Jelena Maksimović’s debut fiction feature is an impressively scruffy piece of political cinema, though its ambitions occasionally outrun its execution. Set against Serbia’s student protests,...
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Sep 11, 2026
Dir: Grzegorz Dębowski | Drama 2026
There is something deliberately claustrophobic about Grzegorz Dębowski’s What Belongs to Others. The camera seems almost unwilling to give its characters room to breathe: handheld...
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Sep 10, 2026
Dir: Tommaso Landucci | Drama Italy 2026
Tommaso Landucci’s fiction debut, 'Children of the Monkey' (I figli della scimmia), arrives in Venice’s Orizzonti sidebar carrying the heavy weight of expectations. Luckily...
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Sep 10, 2026
Dir: Nicolas Pariser | Cast: Drama France 2026
Nicolas Pariser’s Un peu avant minuit, in competition at Venice, is a politically engaged drama that prefers conversation to confrontation and intellectual uncertainty...
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Sep 10, 2026
Dir: Mario Martone | Italy Drama 2026
Mario Martone’s Scherzetto is an endearing, understated little drama that gradually morphs into a thriller and something of a departure from the director’s usual...
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Sep 10, 2026
Claude Chabrol (1930-2010) was one of those filmmakers who seemed to regard cinema less as a profession than as a permanent state of curiosity.
The French director made films for more...
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Sep 10, 2026
Wri/Dir: Damilola Orimogunje
Set in south-western Nigeria in the 1990s, Damilola Orimogunje’s Dear Ajayi is an intimate, atmospheric family drama about two sisters locked in a battle between duty and desire.
Ade...
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Sep 10, 2026
Dir: Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu | Cameroon, drama 2026
House of the Wind is a quietly devastating film, unfolding with an intensity that comes not from spectacle but from what remains...
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