The New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) is an annual cinematic kermesse, founded by Eric Beckman and Emily Shapiro in 1997, with the mission “to support the creation and dissemination of thoughtful, provocative, and intelligent film for children and teens ages 3-18.” During its 2025 edition there is one film in the line-up that…
Adult egos, adolescents struggling with their emotions, and a location that forces to slow down and embark upon introspection. These are the ingredients of Philippe Lesage’s Who By Fire, winner of the Grand Prix, Generation 14plus International Jury Official Selection at Berlinale 2024. The movie by the Quebecois filmmaker has travelled around the festival circuit…
©Courtesy of First Look 2025 The film written and directed by Yôko Yamanaka follows the existential plight of a young Japanese woman. Desert of Namibia — that was featured in the Quinzaine des Cinéastes at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival — delves into the sentimental and professional tribulations of a young woman in search for…
The Xi’an documentarian, whose style brings to light the harsh and hidden folds of Chinese microcosms, is part of a cinematic exhibition in Italy. Wang Bing is one of the 12 film directors of ‘Il nostro tempo’ (Our time) – CinéFondationCartier, the show at the Triennale Museum in Milan curated by Chiara Agradi, where different…
The current Director of the National Museum of Cinema in Torino has a multifaceted background in the world of motion pictures. Carlo Chatrian began as a film critic, and became a programmer, author, consultant for cinema institutions and festival director. Many are the cinematic organisations and kermesse that have forged him. These include Filmmaker Doc…
The acrobatic discipline of Parkour — where practitioners jump from high places attempting to get from one point to another in the fastest and most efficient way possible — may serve as a powerful metaphor for those surviving in wars. This is exactly what we see in Areeb Zuaiter’s film Yalla Parkour, presented at the…
The Snow Queen tale by Hans Christian Andersen centres on the struggle between good and evil, as an icy sorceress seeks to create discord in the world, subjugating a child. This story has had incommensurable media adaptations, from the theatre to the silver screen. The latter includes Japanese and BBC productions, even an animated TV…
Ari marks Léonor Serraille’s third feature film, following Montparnasse Bienvenüe (Jeune Femme), that was awarded the Caméra d’Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and Un petit frère (Mother and son), that was presented in Official Competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. The latest oeuvre by the French director landed the Competition of the…
Michel Franco, after his 2023 drama Memory reprises his collaboration with Jessica Chastain in Dreams. The international co-production between United States and Mexico, had its world premiere in the Main Competition of the 75 th Berlin International Film Festival, competing for the Golden Bear. The film shows how Fernando (Isaac Hernández), a young ballet dancer from…
The 75th Berlin International Film Festival opened with a sense of wonder. Besides the enchanting snow that gave the Opening Ceremony a spectacular Narnia effect, the first film that kicked off the German kermesse enveloped all the possible genres in the realm of motion pictures. If Richard Wagner was fond of the term Gesamtkunstwerk —…
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