‘Sorda’ Wins European Parliament’s Lux Audience Award, Beating ‘Sentimental Value,’ ‘It Was Just an Accident’

‘Sorda’ Wins European Parliament’s Lux Audience Award, Beating ‘Sentimental Value,’ ‘It Was Just an Accident’

Sorda (Deaf), Eva Libertad’s Spanish drama about a deaf woman expecting a child with her hearing partner, has won the LUX Audience Award from the European Parliament, beating out Joachim Trier’s Oscar champion Sentimental Value and Jafar Panahi’s Cannes winner It Was Just an Accident. Also nominated for the LUX Audience Award were Brendan Canty’s…

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‘Wolfram’ Review: Warwick Thornton Deftly Reframes Painful Indigenous Australian Experience Through the Lens of Classic Western Archetypes

‘Wolfram’ Review: Warwick Thornton Deftly Reframes Painful Indigenous Australian Experience Through the Lens of Classic Western Archetypes

An experienced cinematographer before he turned to directing, Warwick Thornton has a feel for the Central Australian desert and the craggy MacDonnell Ranges that’s both epic and intimate. His refined sense of composition is directly informed by the landscape around Alice Springs where he grew up and his subcutaneous connection to it imbues his films…

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‘Salvation’ Review: Mystical Visions, Folkloric Superstitions and Political Alarmism Combine to Unsettling Effect in Anatomy of a Massacre

‘Salvation’ Review: Mystical Visions, Folkloric Superstitions and Political Alarmism Combine to Unsettling Effect in Anatomy of a Massacre

The title of Turkish writer-director Emin Alper’s Salvation (Kurtuluş) carries a bitter sting, pointing up how a perceived enemy threat can be manipulated to seed survivalist panic that escalates into genocide. Salvation for one side means elimination of the other, and establishing which is the righteous side can be entirely subjective, especially when the aggrieved…

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‘Moscas (Flies)’ Review: Mexican Director Fernando Eimbcke Returns to His Roots With Simple, Sweet, Emotionally Resonant B&W Charmer

‘Moscas (Flies)’ Review: Mexican Director Fernando Eimbcke Returns to His Roots With Simple, Sweet, Emotionally Resonant B&W Charmer

Fernando Eimbcke’s fifth feature, Moscas (Flies), opens with a loose string of vignettes. Teresita Sánchez —  a 2022 Sundance Special Jury Prize winner for Dos Estaciones, also known for her roles in Lila Avilés’ The Chambermaid and Tótem — plays Olga, a weary-looking middle-aged woman who wakes up to the insistent buzzing of one of…

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‘The Red Hangar’ Director on His Timely Fiction Feature Debut About Moral Dilemmas and a “Gesture of Humanity Amidst  Barbarism”

‘The Red Hangar’ Director on His Timely Fiction Feature Debut About Moral Dilemmas and a “Gesture of Humanity Amidst  Barbarism”

The Red Hangar (Hangar rojo), the fiction feature debut of Chilean director, producer and screenwriter  Juan Pablo Sallato, may be set in 1970s Chile as a military coup unfolds, but the themes and human challenges it explores feel very timely. It tells the story of Captain Jorge Silva, a former head of Air Force Intelligence,…

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‘The River Train’ Directors on Their Contemplative Argentinian Coming-of-Age Tale (Exclusive Berlin Trailer)

‘The River Train’ Directors on Their Contemplative Argentinian Coming-of-Age Tale (Exclusive Berlin Trailer)

Get ready to watch some Malambo dancing and to board The River Train (El Tren Fluvial) for a trip from the Argentinian countryside to Buenos Aires, on which you will encounter references to the country’s cinematic history! A visceral and mesmerizing coming-of-age tale awaits you. The River Train, celebrating its world premiere on Monday, Feb….

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‘Yellow Letters’ Review: ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ Director Delivers a Modern-Day Political Parable That’s Strongly Acted but Hampered by Vagueness

‘Yellow Letters’ Review: ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ Director Delivers a Modern-Day Political Parable That’s Strongly Acted but Hampered by Vagueness

For his follow-up to the tense and claustrophobic German middle school drama, The Teachers’ Lounge, director Ilker Çatak has attempted something both more ambitious and more mystifying: a tale of authoritarian oppression, artistic strife and family conflict that’s set in contemporary Turkey but was shot entirely in Germany, with no attempts to hide the fact…

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“Wow”: Neil Patrick Harris Hit With Barrage of U.S. Politics Questions at Berlin ‘Sunny Dancer’ Presser: “I’m Interested in Things That Are Apolitical”

“Wow”: Neil Patrick Harris Hit With Barrage of U.S. Politics Questions at Berlin ‘Sunny Dancer’ Presser: “I’m Interested in Things That Are Apolitical”

Bella Ramsey, George Jacques, and Neil Patrick Harris had more political questions to field ahead of the Berlin Film Festival premiere of Sunny Dancer. In George Jacques’ sophomore feature, Game of Thrones and The Last of Us star Ramsey plays Ivy, a 17-year-old who beats cancer and can’t think of anything worse than becoming a…

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