Festivals

Spying Stars

Spying Stars

Sep 23, 2025 | ,

Sri Lankan cineaste Vimukthi Jayasundara re-emerges from his decade-long feature-filmmaking hiatus with ‘Spying Stars’, a moving story about death and mourning packaged as an audacious sci-fi fantasy.

As We Breathe

As We Breathe

Sep 22, 2025 | , ,

A wildfire out of control in rural Turkey threatens the house, livestock and resourcefulness of a little girl and her motherless family in Seyhmus Altun’s low-key, high-anxiety drama ‘As We Breathe’.

By Another Name

By Another Name

Sep 22, 2025 | ,

A dying filmmaker struggles to bring one final project to fruition and his wife attempts to realise this last wish in “By Another Name”, Korean indie filmmaker Lee Jea-han’s uneventful entry to Busan’s new competition.
 

A dying filmmaker struggles to bring one final project to fruition and his wife attempts to realise this last wish in “By Another Name”, Korean indie filmmaker Lee Jea-han’s plain and uneventful entry to Busan International Film Festival’s newly minted main competition.

Hen

Hen

Sep 21, 2025 | , ,

György Pálfi works with a plucky cast of real animals on ‘Hen’, a scrappy but technically impressive comic thriller about a rebellious bird on the run from the chicken-industrial complex.

Shape of Momo

Shape of Momo

Sep 21, 2025 | ,

Indian filmmaker Tribeny Rai makes back-to-back festival bows at Busan and San Sebastian with ‘Shape of Momo’, a thoughtful family drama about an affluent, cosmopolitan woman’s rebellion against the gender- and class-based schisms in her picturesque Himalayan hometown.

La lucha

La lucha

Sep 21, 2025 | , ,

Un padre y una hija de clase trabajadora pertenecen a un grupo muy unido de luchadores tradicionales en La lucha, una historia inesperadamente extravagante y emocionalmente perfecta ambientada en las Islas Canarias.

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