The Oscar-winning film director’s artwork is on display at the National Museum of Cinema in Turin through a chimerical exhibition called The Art of James Cameron, that was previously displayed by the Cinémathèque Française in Paris in spring of 2024. The exhibit in Torino runs from February 26th to June 15th 2025 at the Mole…
The documentary Aum: The Cult At The End Of The World, marks the directorial debuts of Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto. The film is based on the book The Cult at the End of the World by investigative reporter David E. Kaplan and journalist Andrew Marshall. The picture, that had its world premiere at the…
The 2025 New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) becomes the stage to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the world created by Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson. For decades her novels, short stories, picture books, and comic strips have been animated by hippopotamus-inspired creatures and their friends who invoke Norse mythology. Moominvalley is…
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…
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