Our dirty questions to Muneeb Hassan
Joshua Polanski interviews the queer American-Pakistani director of All The Men I Met But Never Dated; they talk about autobiographic cinema, shooting in one and a half day, the closet as a safe haven, showing his film to his family, and much more! [Read More...]

Carole & Grey
TikTok movie challenges the old frame ratio orthodoxy, while also diffusing instant gratification and maximum sensory overload with its black-and-white colour palette - from the 24th edition of REC Tarragona [Read More...]

All The Men I Met But Never Dated
Closeted queer Pakistani finds tender loving in the gym, in a short movie with a taste of more to come - from the Woodstock Film Festival [Read More...]

Contact Lens
Contact lenses become a proxy for both liberation and imprisonment, in this Chinese tribute to Chantal Akerman's most famous film - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Life & Love
Romantic drama set during the Great Depression navigates the psychology of desire, power dynamics, and the pains of love - from the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Tesa Man
Highly audacious, experimental and "silent" film captures post-metal band from Latvia performing in the middle of nowhere - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Touched by Eternity
Latvian vampires up the ante by combining immortality and livelihood, in Mārcis Lācis's blood-sucking comedy - from the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Never Alone (Ei Koskaan Yksin)
Finnish hero fights in order to stop authorities from handing Jews over to Nazis, in this very familiar battle of good versus evil - from the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Our dirty questions to Amanda Deering Jones
Joshua Polanski interviews the director of Little Mother Lies, a short film about two feuding sisters, a bowl of borscht, and an addicted son; they discuss fiction written from experience, Russian heritage, optimism, nostalgia and more! [Read More...]

Our dirty questions to Llaima Sanfiorenzo
Joshua Polanski interviews the director of And Still The Seed, a "decidedly anti-colonial" film about the bond between trees and people; they talk about Llaima's native Puerto Rico, trees older than Christopher Columbus, non-human life as film protagonists, and much more! [Read More...]

And Still The Seed (Todavia La Semilla)
Puerto Rican doc celebrates the bond between trees and people, while also peeling off the toxic layers of colonialism - from the Atlanta Film Festival [Read More...]

Two sides of the same coin?
Using Deborah Correa's The War Between as a case study, Joshua Polanski reflects about the dangers of bothsideism, the gaze of the white man, and romanticising soldiers [Read More...]

All We Imagine As Light
Filthy genius movie from India bludgeons the beauty standards of both Bollywood and Hollywood, while refreshingly allowing women to find pleasure in sex - in cinemas on Friday, November 29th [Read More...]

Natatorium
Icelandic family have a bizarre, borderline pathological and incestuous, relationship with their own swimming pool - creepy drama premieres at the 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam/also showing at Tiff Romania [Read More...]

Steppenwolf
Adilkhan Yerzhanov's quirky child organ theft drama is highly stylised, violent and visually arresting; it's almost a samurai film - from the 58th edition of Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Yohanna
Challenged by thieves, police raids and child exploitation, Catholic nun forsakes her own religious and moral principles - Indonesian drama premieres at the 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam [Read More...]