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Berlin International Film Festival : French Documentary ‘On the Adamant’ Wins Golden Bear for Best Film

As the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival drew to a close, “On the Adamant,” a documentary by French director Nicolas Philibert, Ann intimate look at the patients and caregivers in mental health centre located on the Seine River, has won the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival’s Golden Bear for best film.  This year’s Berlin jury…

Kristen Stewart Cast as Writer Susan Sontag In Director Kirsten Johnson’s Biographical Meta Documentary, ‘Sontag’

Kristen Stewart has signed on to portray feminist writer-political activist, Susan Sontag in Sontag, an upcoming narrative biopic that will feature a metafictional twist. The film will be directed by Kirsten Johnson, who’s known for helming the Emmy-winning documentary, Dick Johnson Is Dead, Variety is reporting. Sontag is based on the 2019 biographical book, Sontag:…

Tribeca Festival : Review / We Might As Well Be Dead, A Dark Tale Mimicking Society’s Blatant Chauvinism

We Might As Well Be Dead is the epitome of fear as a self-reproducing system that dominates the political discourse. This is the feature debut directed by Russian-German Natalia Sinelnikova, that was presented at the 72nd Berlin Film Festival and at the 21st Tribeca Film Festival. Forty year old Anna Wilczynska (Ioana Iacob) lives with…

M. Night Shyamalan Chosen as Jury President For Berlin Film Festival 2022

M. Night Shyamalan has been chosen to serve as the president of the international jury at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival next year, Variety is reporting. The festival is set to run February 10-20, 2022. The appointment of the writer-director-producer was a surprise for long-time attendees of the festival, which is also known as…