To fill a void in her heart, Silvia (Manuela Oyarzún) adopts a puppy from a stray litter abandoned by their mother. On a remote island off the coast of Chilean Patagonia, she and her partner Mario ...

In a world where many artistic representations of war can be reduced to the sentiment that any kind of conflict is inherently negative and serves no purpose other than promoting division and violence, ...

Xinyang Zhang is an aspiring young man. A pupil of Jia Zhangke’s “Next Talent Project” only seven years ago, Zhang overwhelms with a two-and-a-half-hour debut feature that is as impenetrable as it is ...

"A remarkable piece of filmmaking." "You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes ... but still I rise" is ...

Land is never just land. For those who own it, it means property, capital, and the power to decide who gets to live from it. For those who work it without ever being allowed to claim it, the same ...

“Special Operation is not an easy watch, but the further removed from it you get, the more Radynski’s film takes on meaning.” In the early days of the invasion of Ukraine the Russian army occupied the ...

1883 saw the largest volcanic eruption ever recorded, when the volcano Krakatoa between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra exploded. It is said to have been the loudest sound ever heard, and ...

When Hanne (Dagmar Manzel) opens her front door, she doesn’t expect Kurt (Harald Krassnitzer) there. He is her ex-husband, and somebody she has seen only two times in as many decades. He seems to ...

"Another work of great beauty that lets the audience experience nature's resilience instead of resorting to didacticism." ...

In the margins of Tehran’s underground art scene, creativity becomes less a declaration than a way of surviving, along with those who strive to create art in a society where even the simplest acts of ...

After three shorts and a first feature, Sandra Wollner announced herself to the world with The Trouble with Being Born — awarded at the Berlinale and celebrated at San Sebastián. Five years on, with ...

Franco Maresco is missing. After a disastrous shoot for his new film went kaput, the idiosyncratic filmmaker, satirist, and all-round madman has vanished into thin air. It is up to his friend and ...