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“A deeply unsettling but profoundly beautiful elegy for an entire generation whose stories have been concealed for far too long.” There’s nothing quite like the existential crisis that comes as a result of discovering that there have been roughly 117 billion people who have lived throughout all of human history, an unfathomably large number that […]

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At the Venice Film Festival, Nataliia Serebriakova spoke with Australian-based Polish filmmaker Kuba Dorabialski about his debut feature Agata the Writer, which premiered in the Giornate degli Autori competition. Starring Mia Wasikowska as a Polish-Australian writer who travels from Sydney to Sarajevo to work on a novel about the Bosnian War, the film quietly turns […]


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“It has the gratuitous fun, the unflinching assurance, and the honest modesty of B-movies at their best” With Arrested Memory, veteran Japanese director Sabu graces us with a crowd-pleaser that has all the makings of a fine vintage action thriller. Clocking in at just eighty minutes (plus the credits), it runs as straight as an […]

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“A clear-eyed and profoundly moving ode to life and death.” Five years after her first film Moon, 66 Questions premiered at Berlin and marked her as a talent to watch, Greek filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou returns in Venice’s Orizzonti sidebar with A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (Mia Mera sti Zoi tis Tzo: […]

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“A compelling and thrilling story, even if it can’t truly escape its genre trappings.” “The road to freedom is always long.” Between 2013 and 2016 the Islamic State (or IS for short) brutally ruled over 12 million people in large parts of Iraq and Syria. By 2019 they had to cede all of this territory […]

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