Spotlight

Clayface

by Alonso Duralde | Oct 23, 2026 | Spotlight, Hollywood | 0 |

This chilling and sometimes unsettling body-horror tale from the DC Comics universe turns a rising young thespian into, literally, a chameleonic actor.

Featured

DOK Leipzig’s New Director Ola Staszel on Why Documentaries Are More Important Than Ever

by Adham Youssef | Oct 28, 2026 | Featured, Festivals, Leipzig 2026 | 0

In her first stint as DOK Leipzig director, Ola Staszel confronts Germany’s growing East–West divide while navigating political sensitivities over Palestine, funding cuts and the challenges facing documentary cinema.

Closure

by Carmen Gray | Oct 25, 2026 | Featured, Festivals, Leipzig 2026 | 0
Busan 2026: The Verdict

by Clarence Tsui | Oct 16, 2026 | Festivals, Busan 2026, Featured | 0
Street Fighter

by Alonso Duralde | Oct 15, 2026 | Featured, Hollywood | 0

Leipzig 2026

Magic Atlas

by Carmen Gray | Oct 28, 2026

Sun Xun’s feature animation debut is a visually ravishing, steampunk-infused maximalist allegory about authoritarianism and the transformative power of art.

1.5°C: Pyropolitics and the New World

by Carmen Gray | Oct 28, 2026
Letters from the Silenced Country

by Carmen Gray | Oct 27, 2026
Blossoming

by Carmen Gray | Oct 27, 2026
Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing

by Carmen Gray | Oct 25, 2026

Verdict Shorts

The Taste of Your Scales

by Ben Nicholson | Sep 19, 2026

The Taste of Your Scales is an ominous and unsettling fantasy is a coming-of-age story, where a boy learns the truth about the fish factory in which his father works.

Stop the Car

by Ben Nicholson | Sep 18, 2026
Life After a Lifetime and Endless Rebirths

by Ben Nicholson | Sep 17, 2026
Brute

by Ben Nicholson | Sep 16, 2026
Living Grounds

by Ben Nicholson | Sep 15, 2026

Busan 2026

Earbug

by The Film Verdict | Oct 16, 2026

'Earbug' turns a young woman novelist’s creative block into a disturbing exploration of childhood trauma, supported by superb voice performances but weakened by thematic excess and uneven characterisation.