First Light
A corruption scandal throws a nun into crisis in Australian-Filipino director James J. Robinson’s debut ‘First Light’, an intriguing, introspective slow-burner.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Feb 1, 2026 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2026 |
A corruption scandal throws a nun into crisis in Australian-Filipino director James J. Robinson’s debut ‘First Light’, an intriguing, introspective slow-burner.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Jan 31, 2026 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2026 |
Writer-director Charlotte Glynn balances hard-nosed grit and tenderness in her quietly devastating portrait of an injured teen gymnast in working-class Pittsburgh.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Jan 31, 2026 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2026 |
A luxury Venice hotel is a site of strange death dealings and cryptic dream logic in Juja Dobrachkous’s mesmeric, eccentric sophomore feature.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Jan 30, 2026 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2026 |
Kevin Walker and Jack Auen’s eerie, stylish techno-horror debut draws us through a library wormhole into a ‘70s scandal around a Benedictine monk’s memory-recording machine.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Oct 29, 2025 | Festivals, Leipzig 2025 |
A delightfully bizarre ruckus of wild family anecdote, the Scriver brothers’ animation is an astute catalogue of Canadian First Nations dispossession, and a hopeful contribution to resurgent knowledge.
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