The Netflix documentary directed and produced by Academy Award-winning Marshall Curry, allows unprecedented access into The New Yorker’s newsroom while retracing its history that began at the beginning of the previous century. The New Yorker At 100 premiered at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival and it features interviews with the former and current team of…
The film directed by Noah Baumbach — that he co-wrote with Emily Mortimer, who also has a supporting role in the film — stars an ensemble cast that includes George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup and Alba Rohrwacher. Jay Kelly follows the eponymous famous actor (played by George Clooney) as he…
The journey towards the Chicago Japan Film Collective’s 5th anniversary continues in 2026, with the Backstreet Cinema Series Vol. 2. This second installment explores the primal power and emotional resonance of Nipponic art through documentaries that reflect the heartbeat, courage, and creative spirit that lie at the core of the cultural identity of the Land…
If The Substance explored ageism through the transformation of the body, a film featured in the line-up of the 43rd edition of the Torino Film Festival uses the same means to discuss white ethnocentrism. Slanted follows Joan Huang (Shirley Chen), a Chinese-American teen, who moved with her family from China to the star-spangled country when…
The Closing Film of the 43rd edition of the Torino Film Festival Nuremberg brought to the silver screen a story that explores the familiarisation with the enemy. Film director James Vanderbilt portrays the Allied trials of the 1940s, following the fall of the Nazi regime. American psychiatrist Douglas Kelly (Rami Malek) is assigned to evaluate…
©Courtesy of Torino Film Festival The 43rd Torino Film Festival took place from November 21st to November 29th 2025, under the aegis of the National Museum of Cinema, presided by Enzo Ghigo and directed by Carlo Chatrian, with the artistic direction of Giulio Base. This was the second year that Giulio Base was at the…
The 43rd Torino Film Festival has been the stage to the new work of one of the few female filmmakers from the Kingdom of Bhutan. Dechen Roder started off making small documentaries and videos, through her production company Dakinny Productions, incepted in 2009. In 2015 she wrote and directed Lo Sum Choe Sum, which competed…
The Latin saying ‘gutta cavat lapidem’ (a drop of water digs through the rock) clearly reflects the spirit of the documentary directed by Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni. Cutting Through Rocks portrays the feminist fight of a woman in a patriarchal land. Sara Shahverdi is a former midwife, she is divorced, rides her motorcycle, dresses…
The film written and directed by Nia DaCosta reimagines the play by Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler. Just like the Norwegian stage drama, the film portrays the experiences of the daughter of a general, who is trapped in a marriage and a house that she does not want. Hedda shows the titular character, played by Tessa…
The Netflix docu-series Victoria Beckham captures the professional growth of Victoria Adams, the Spice Girl, who became the WAG when marrying footballer David Beckham, who ultimately flourished into the fashion designer we know of today. If the world wanted her to be Posh Spice forever, or the trophy wife of an athlete, Victoria Beckham proved…
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