Welcome to our new regular Saturday feature. ✈️ ✈️ Pack your bags, get your boarding pass ready ..... here is Everything We Know So Far... for Marcela Said's 🇨🇱 EL PUMA https://bit.ly/4bpKKYd

Christian Petzold might bring former/current muses Nina Hoss & Paula Beer for Chekhov theatre group project. Do we circle 2029? Visit IONCINEMA.com for more world cinema news! https://bit.ly/4uHz1M8

🇬🇧 Harry Lighton, 🇳🇱 Emma Branderhorst, 🇪🇸 Joecar Hanna, 🇱🇹 Saulé Bliuvaité, 🇮🇳 Mansi Maheshwari & 🇮🇪 Oliver McGoldrick have been selected for 2026 Cannes' La Résidence ! https://bit.ly/47xPitp

Janus Films releases Two Prosecutors "...a Ukrainian director evoking Stalin’s reign of terror through bureaucratic dismantling in ways which eerily echo the current state of affairs in the United States is its own formidable quagmire to unpack." https://bit.ly/4kkqV68

Reinventing the Kneel: Schoenaerts, Samba & Csokas Join Ellie Foumbi's Paris Escort Drama FLEUR https://bit.ly/40Yp7Zb

2025 Hubert Bals Fund's HBF+Europe: Asmae El Moudir, Maya Da-Rin & Kamila Andini Projects Get Support! They might all be headed to Cannes this May! https://bit.ly/4ssoXVR

🇹🇷 Nuri Bilge Ceylan is visiting father-daughter tensions with Pale Sun (Yorgun Günes) this Summer. This will be ready for Cannes 2027! https://bit.ly/4snjhfY

Welcome to our new regular Saturday feature. Pack your bags, get your boarding pass ready ..... here is Everything We Know So Far... for Ann Oren's sophomore feature OBJET A 🇩🇪 https://bit.ly/3P7lrBy

Looks like 🇹🇷 master filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan will move into production this summer on his 10th feature film. #Cannes2027 https://bit.ly/4sd8o06

Brutalist Trio Part of ‘Diamond Shitter’ Quartet as Andrea Riseborough & Guy Pearce Join https://bit.ly/3NfiUVo

​ICYMI: Jonas Carpignano​ will direct Tessa Thompson ​i​n 🇬🇷 A Separation ​(a novel by Katie Kitamura) produced by ​to Thompson, Riva Marker​,​ Kishori Rajan and Greta Caruso, and Faliro House's Christos V. Konstantakopoulos.​ bit.ly/4brc7zT

Hanna Gray Organschi ​i​s moving ahead with her feature debut - Grace Van Patten ​w​ill topline Rubber Hut for ​a​ summer shoot. 2027 Sundance Film Festival ​i​n totally in the cards. Willa's Elizabeth Woodward and Stone Fruit Productions' Tara Sheffer are producing. bit.ly/4bE4Z4k

🇪🇸 Spanish filmmaker Àlex Lora has his sophomore feature L'escletxa (aka THE FISSURE) in post production. Inicia Films' Valérie Delpierre and Scope Pictures' Geneviève Lemal produced the film which looks at the 2017 Barcelona attacks. bit.ly/4bxiUsW

Welcome to our new regular Saturday feature. Pack your bags, get your boarding pass ready ..... here is Everything We Know So Far... for Benjamín Naishtat's GLAXO 🇦🇷 - could this be headed to Venice? Featuring Lali Espósito bit.ly/4ld0DV3

1-2 Special Launches Enyedi's 'Silent Friend' This May + trailer which we are quoted on!!! bit.ly/4uriWub

Charlotte Rampling Joins Bertrand Bonello's 'Santo Subito!' Production began last week. We wonder if this will compete for the Palme d'Or or Golden Lion next year. bit.ly/4sjYRnt

Our Venice ★★★½ review of Pompei: Below the Clouds (out Friday via @mubi) "like Rosi’s body of work, it's the way cinema operates, preserving moments of time in celluloid, our shifting version of amber, these digital fossils." bit.ly/47qCsxP

Welcome to our regular Saturday feature. With DREAMS out yesterday, we ask that you pack your bags, get your boarding pass ready ..... here is Everything We Know So Far... for 🇲🇽 Michel Franco's CIRCLES 🇮🇱 produced by Franco, Eyal Shiray and Alexander Rodnyansky. bit.ly/3OR7UOe

Alice Rohrwacher Lands Josh O’Connor, Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan & Jessie Buckley for Three Incestuous Sisters - production begins in April. This will easily secure a Cannes 2027 Palme d'Or comp slot. bit.ly/40z1ZQx

2026 César Awards: The Venice Film Fest Orizzonti sidebar programmed Carine Tardieu's 'The Ties That Binds Us' Won Best Film beating out four Palme d'Or competition films. bit.ly/4riO6Bb

"Metaphorically, this operates on several levels, both as the character being a potential cypher for Sang-soo himself, but also commentary on how Donghwa is a young man who’s willfully adrift, blissfully ignorant about what being an adult requires." ★★★★ bit.ly/419ieno

Our Nicholas Bell's review: ""DREAMS takes pains to assert these increasingly desperate attempts for control of a relationship they’ve already allowed to be defined by everyone else are specific acts of viciousness." bit.ly/42YPYXc

Our Nicholas Bell reviews 🇯🇵 A NEW DAWN by Yoshitoshi Shinomiya - “An impressive mix of textures and frameworks suggest Shinomiya is definitely an artist with something to say, but his debut is all about climax. In short, as a film, it's too adolescent with its foreplay.” bit.ly/4aMsFlp

Oscar reviews 🇵🇰 LALI “Sarmad Sultan Khoosat’s fourth feature is an at times confusing but vividly authentic vision of the types of matriarchal, patriarchal and domineering forces that consume traditional South Asian relationships and values.” bit.ly/3ZTINg3

Our Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire BERLINALE comp -here he takes on Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird) “there’s something a bit too personal, a bit too detached, like we’re eavesdropping on a stranger’s home videos during an unexpected stretch of free time in a captive vacuum.” ★★½ bit.ly/4rzyCcU

Our Nicholas Bell reviews 🇹🇩 SOUMSOUM, the NIGHT of the STARS “A lusciously photographed narrative slog, it’s a surprising misfire from the director following 2021’s Lingui, the Sacred Bonds, especially as he once again returns to a mystical, femme-centered fable.” bit.ly/4qWbMe5

🇮🇷 Mahnaz Mohammadi - “A puzzle-like portrait, ROYA is most devastating as a portrait of prison as psychological -- constructed from isolation, coercion and the slow dismantling of identity itself. You can't get more political and more timely than with this text.” ★★★ bit.ly/46jU254

WE ARE ALL STRANGERS 🇸🇬 “with some significant trimming, there is the suggestion of a potentially powerful character study lurking in here, courtesy of Yeo Yann Yann, though she’s martyred here in service of a narrative which tends to use her for levity.” bit.ly/4aXxtpv

🇦🇹 THE LONELIEST MAN in TOWN “Covi and Frimmel’s works are often quiet, methodical studies, all which find their own inviting, specific rhythm. Through their observational lens, a vibrant portrait of a melancholic but complex man emerges.” ★★★½ bit.ly/4kHoSdO

Our review of 🇲🇰 Kosara Mitić's directorial debut 17 “...while this suffocating, bleak Euro drama tends to feel contained and repetitive narratively, what it does best is present a rare form of female solidarity through violence.” #Berlinale bit.ly/4qKyxBN

🇩🇪 HOME STORIES “for such a large cast of characters, collectively they don't generate any ‘home stories,’ but instead clot together into a bland, coagulating stew, the kind of bourgeois shadows ripe for a Michael Haneke style dissection.” bit.ly/4kSy0MP

Oscar Aitchison reviews LIGHT PILLAR 寒夜灯柱 🇨🇳 “For his debut animated feature, Xu Zao (also known as Xu Jingwei) has crafted a sometimes baffling, visually daring dreamscape grounded in reality with genuinely unique formal decisions.” ★★★★ bit.ly/4qOMq1T

🇲🇽 Fernando Eimbcke's FLIES “the real momentum of the film belongs to Bastian Escobar, who is, in essence, just being a child who misses his mother. The lesson learned here is old as human existence - you catch more flies with honey.” ★★★½ bit.ly/4aTPMvI

Our Nicholas Bell reviews 🇦🇺 Warwick Thornton’s latest: “WOLFRAM utilizes old school parameters while also recuperating erased perspectives, and builds a strong emotional investment with its protagonists that often assist in overlooking these slights.” #Berlinale bit.ly/46TJg5G

Nicholas Bell reviews Angela Schanelec's MY WIFE CRIES “Lately, as with her previous, even more experimental feature Music (2023), dialogue has been used more forcibly as a didactic mechanism, which brings with it a tediousness suffocating the experience.” bit.ly/3MjeAnE

Our Nicholas Bell reviews Lance Hammer's long awaited sophomore feature 🇺🇸 QUEEN at SEA “Spliced with intergenerational conflicts within this specific familial unit, Hammer explores the importance of context and boundaries even within the most private of institutions.” ★★★½ bit.ly/4kK2lx4

“THE BLOOD COUNTESS is a throwback to a fading society of an elitist subculture similarly preying on the vulnerable. There might not be a lot of belly laughs, but there are moments of wicked amusement courtesy of its little love bites.” bit.ly/4ro24Cw

Live from the Berlinale! Our Nicholas Bell reviews 🇨🇦 “Nina Roza is a quiet film about interior emotional shifts, and utilizes subtlety, sometimes to its detriment. There are some striking similarities with another Montreal set Berlinale title, Memory Box...” bit.ly/3Ox4mk5

Live from the Berlinale! Our Nicholas Bell reviews 🇭🇺 Kornél Mundruczó “finds itself mired with aggravating cliches about unhappy childhoods and escapist fantasies at the seashore, tying everything up together a bit too resolutely (and more unfortunately, predictably).” ★★½ bit.ly/4tAw93j

Live from the Berlinale! Our Nicholas Bell reviews DUST by Anke Blondé 🇧🇪 “Committed lead performances from noted Belgian thesps Arieh Worthalter and Jan Hammenecker aside, a lengthy running time seems to stretch indefinitely with a narrative void of any real peaks or valleys.” bit.ly/4rR059o

Our Nicholas Bell reviews ROSE “If there’s a trough line (beyond the eponymous titles) of 🇦🇹 director @markusschleinzer films, it’s a connective theme of humans who try to restore equanimity in their personal lives by defying cultural constraints placed upon them....” ★★★★ bit.ly/46Fuj7g

Our Nicholas Bell at the Berlinale reviews 🇹🇷 Emin Alper's Salvation aka Kurtuluş - “its depictions of religious primed paranoia bloat to hysterical proportions, stalling the pace and warping otherwise intriguing characterizations.” bit.ly/3MMWgDo

Our Nicholas Bell brings out the trimmers for Karim Aïnouz's ROSEBUSH PRUNING - “if there’s any need to make another film about despicable, beautiful, filthy rich monsters, at least decide what, if anything, might be of interest to say. If families are rose bushes needing pruning, bit.ly/3MGBo0F

Our review of Hanna Bergholm's Nightborn 🇫🇮 “Settling into a familiar groove, it’s a film wherein the idiosyncratic wavelength’s success depends solely on the increasingly untethered lead performance from Seidi Haarla” bit.ly/46RfNcy

Our Nicholas Bell reviews 🇸🇳 Alain Gomis Dao - “Impressively assembled with much to admire, there are moments which often suggest the film could be a masterpiece. However, there’s also often a meandering, even lethargic pacing as the narrative flits between two key events in Par bit.ly/4rRHvy6

Our Nicholas Bell reviews .... “From a distance, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a quiet film about a talented artist, and may sound unremarkable. But much like Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon (2025), it’s a subtle film about an artist's potential point of no return” bit.ly/4awfvJb

YELLOW LETTERS review “the road to hell was paved with good intentions, and though the film’s underlying sentiment is powerful, it's somewhat blunt and, ultimately, shrill in utilizing a somewhat basic domestic drama to showcase the warping elements of fascism.” bit.ly/4bVUCd2

🇹🇳 “What’s most expertly encapsulated in Tunisian filmmaker Leyla Bouzid’s third feature In a Whisper (À voix basse) is the quiet cruelty of the closet, the apparently immortal mechanism which continues to define the global experience of queer identities.” bit.ly/4as7vZJ

I Understand Your Displeasure “an examination of how difficult it can become to ‘do the right thing,’ specifically when serving mercurial masters of commerce,who, despite the lip service of professing to care for employees’ well being, only concerned with profit. Crew expendable." bit.ly/3MHzCfF

Our Nicholas Bell reviews this 🇪🇸 debut Iván & Hadoum "de la Rosa deftly examines how a threat to private enterprise proves to be the bridge too far, shifting the dramatic catalyst away from gender identity."​ ★★★ bit.ly/4aiNnuk