Sukkwan Island
Vladimir de Fontenay’s otherwise superb father-son drama is marred by an unsatisfactory ending.
Sundance 2025
All That’s Left of You
This week, in the midst of a fragile ceasefire, 300,000 Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza. Even as their former homes have largely been reduced to rubble, the persistence of the people to remain on their land is both admirable and heartbreaking. But that fortitude is borne from decades of forced displacement and violence which...
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Mr. Nobody Against Putin
A Russian high school teacher becomes an unlikely undercover activist in ‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’, an insider documentary about the poisonous spread of Kremlin pro-war propaganda.
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In the run-up to her election in 2022, right-wing Italian Prime Minster Giorgia Meloni declared, "Yes to the natural family, no to the LGBT lobby, yes to sexual identity, no to gender ideology.” It’s an odious promise she’s upheld, as last autumn, her government expanded their ban on domestic surrogacy to include citizens traveling abroad...
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The Ugly Stepsister
Nordic horror meets classic French fairy tale in ‘The Ugly Stepsister’, a new take on the well-known Cinderella story that is tailor-made for the genre circuit.
The Things You Kill
More a psychological study than a thriller, ‘The Things You Kill’ explores the corruption and internalized violence of a patriarchal society, spiced with some bold narrative tricks from Alireza Khatami, co-director of the Iranian festival hit ‘Terrestrial Verses’.