The film that won Andrius Blaževičius the award for Best Director in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2026, arrives in US cinemas. How To Divorce During The War is set in Vilnius in 2022 and follows the story of high-flying executive Marija (Zygimante Elena Jakstaite) who tells her husband Vytas (Marius Repsys) she…
Netflix’s The Last House shows Greta Lee and Wagner Moura star in the original sci-fi thriller directed by Louis Leterrier as Ann and Jason, who find themselves sealed in their house with their children, Graham (played as a younger child by Noah Alexander Sosnowski and as an older version by Gabriel Barbosa) and Ruth (played…
Taichi Kimura’s tragicomedy Fujiko is part of the 2026 New York Asian Film Festival, after taking home the prestigious Golden Mulberry Audience Award at the Far East Film Festival. The film follows the strong-willed single mother Fujiko (Yuki Katayama) in 1970s and 1980s Shizuoka, as she fights for her child and self-sufficiency. It all begins…
After the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest work arrives at Japan Society as part of Japan Cuts’ line-up. Sheep In The Box takes its name from a famous passage in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, to explore the notion of resurrection through technological means. Set in a not-too-distant future, the film follows a young bereaved…
The 62nd Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro took place from June 13th to June 20th 2026, with Pedro Armocida as Artistic Director for the eleventh time. This festival — founded by Italian film critic and film historian Lino Miccichè — is one of the most important Italian film festivals, representing an alternative to…
Chihiro Amano, a year after directing her film Sato and Sato, returns to cinemas with Magical Secret Tour that had it North American Premiere at the 25th New York Asian Film Festival. This is a gold-smuggling story inspired by true events, involving housewives who were arrested for smuggling gold bars at Chubu Centrair International Airport…
In 1836 Joseph-Xavier Boniface published a book called Picciola, about Count Charney, a former soldier who had been jailed for conspiring against Napoleon, who passed his days behind bars tending a plant that lightened his time amidst the walls that imprisoned him. Japanese film director Baku Kinoshita and writer Kazuya Konomoto seem to have grasped…
For all those who lack historical awareness Young Washington will clarify why King Charles III, when meeting President Donald Trump at the White House in April 2026, in his speech said: “You recently commented, Mr. President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that,…
“A Fashion Show is like a war machine,” is the statement made by one of the characters in the film Couture, directed by Alice Winocour. This proclamation defines not just an industry, but our time, when people are defined by the productivity in any work sector. Maxine (Angelina Jolie), is an American filmmaker who arrives…
The gaze of second-generation immigrants captures the plight of its forbearers. This is what film director Karla Murthy projects in her documentary The Gas Station Attendant. Through the use of footage from home videos and old recorded tapes, the director and Emmy-nominated producer who began her career working for several news programs on PBS, finds…
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