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fromInsideHook
2 days ago

Did an Unexpected Culprit Hurt Modern Filmmaking?

American cinema faces a paradox of thriving box office revenues while struggling with the decline of mid-budget films and the impact of YouTube.
fromAnOther
5 days ago

Five Groundbreaking Dream Sequences From Silent Cinema

Film is like that. It developed from [the silent era] into Fellini and Bergman, Buñuel and David Lynch. [They] took these ideas and created a film that was really like a dream.
Film
Left-wing politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Colombia's history-making VP blames racism for four years of frustration

Francia Marquez becomes Colombia's first Black vice-president, highlighting systemic racism and exclusion faced by Black leaders in government.
fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

Radu Jude, the Bard of Bucharest

Bucharest's buildings are marked with a bright-red disk, indicating that, in the next earthquake, this building could fall down, as explained by Radu Jude.
Berlin
Television
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

Seven Documentaries for Fans of Fiction

Documentaries can effectively tell engaging stories, appealing even to those typically averse to the genre.
History
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

A story that needs to be told': the Manacillos festival of Colombia photo essay

Afro-Colombians celebrate the Manacillos festival to unite and resist economic instability and violence, preserving their ancestral heritage along the Yurumangui River.
Berlin
fromCN Traveller
1 week ago

Is the future of film European? How the continent continues to allure set-jetting travellers

European cinema is increasingly competing with Hollywood, showcasing unique landscapes and storytelling that attract global audiences.
Film
fromOpen Culture
2 weeks ago

Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Bunuel and Many More

Hollywood faces a crisis with declining interest in films, prompting a search for re-enchantment through experimental cinema.
#sundance-film-festival
fromIndieWire
1 week ago
Independent films

Sundance Heads South: Festival Announces Lineup for Third CDMX Edition in Mexico

Film
fromVulture
2 months ago

Expect to Hear a Lot About Sundance Sales Now That the Festival Is Over

The 42nd Sundance Film Festival closed its Park City run and showed major distribution deals shifting off-site, causing a slowdown of on-site acquisitions.
Film
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

Hollywood Still Needs That Sundance Energy

Sundance has been vital to the film industry's health for 40 years and will continue to support independent film as it moves to Boulder, Colorado.
Independent films
fromIndieWire
1 week ago

Sundance Heads South: Festival Announces Lineup for Third CDMX Edition in Mexico

The 2026 Sundance Film Festival CDMX will showcase 15 feature films and six shorts in Mexico City from April 30 to May 3.
Music production
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
3 weeks ago

Anna Ferrer Transforms Tradition in Enchanting New Video: Los panes los hijos - KALTBLUT Magazine

Anna Ferrer's fourth album, PA, intertwines her family's bakery heritage with experimental folk music, creating a unique sonic experience.
Film
fromKqed
2 weeks ago

BAMPFA Spotlights Lucrecia Martel's Parables of Middle-Class Desperation

Martel's films challenge perceptions of reality, exploring themes of privilege, colonialism, and the disconnection between adults and children.
Independent films
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Cannes looks beyond Hollywood as US film-makers mostly fail to make the grade

Cannes 2023 selection favors world cinema over Hollywood, showcasing prominent international directors and reflecting geopolitical tensions.
fromThe Nation
3 weeks ago

In "Bomarzo," the Renaissance Man is a Monster

"One must put himself in the period... crime had a certain familiarity from its repetition through time.... That's what they were like, unscrupulous. So was I. And since we are speaking about it, so was the Renaissance."
History
Independent films
fromVariety
2 weeks ago

Peru's Tribeca-Winning Doc 'Runa Simi' Opens IFF Panama Which Closes with Leticia Tonos' 'Milly, Queen of Merengue'

IFF Panama introduces an international competition for documentary films, expanding its program to include diverse international voices.
Media industry
fromVariety
1 month ago

Arte President Bruno Patino Issues Industry-Wide Alert: AI Has Now Pushed Us Into a 'Relationship Economy,' the Only Way Forward Is 'Coalition'

Media sovereignty faces existential threats from conglomeration, AI-driven fragmentation, and loss of shared information commons, requiring urgent industry rethinking.
Berlin
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Pedro Almodovar: My modesty has crumbled. Now I feel more naked'

Pedro Almodovar expresses mixed feelings about his latest film, Amarga Navidad, revealing personal exposure and positive initial reactions.
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Uruguay's candombe brings streets to life as the once-banned musical tradition roars back

Candombe, Uruguay's Afro-descendant music once banned and marginalized, is now experiencing peak popularity after spreading from Black neighborhoods throughout the country.
Independent films
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Dodging the wrinkle wagon': why a Brazilian film about ageing is inspiring older women

The film 'The Blue Trail' addresses ageism and the resilience of older women in Brazil through its protagonist's journey of self-discovery.
#brazilian-cinema
Independent films
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Brazilian cinema has high hopes of making Oscar history

Brazil seeks a second consecutive Oscar for Best Picture with The Secret Agent, potentially winning three awards across categories, marking unprecedented success for Brazilian cinema.
Independent films
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Brazilian cinema has high hopes of making Oscar history

Brazil seeks a second consecutive Oscar for Best Picture with The Secret Agent, potentially winning three awards across categories, marking unprecedented success for Brazilian cinema.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Women behind the lens: The women watched the fuel tanker advance with uncertainty and fear'

The Siekopai Nation, which has historically occupied territories along the northern border between Ecuador and Peru, was separated and displaced during the 1941 border war between the two countries, a conflict with consequences that extended into the 1990s. According to Justino Piaguaje, leader of the Siekopai in Ecuador, the nation's original population was close to 20,000 but diseases brought by colonisers, Jesuit missions, conditions of slavery during the rubber boom, and the impacts of the oil industry led to a drastic decline.
Environment
Independent films
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

Indie Film Has an Architecture Problem

The indie film model is structurally designed to fail, with misaligned incentives between investors, filmmakers, distributors, and audiences, resulting in only 0.025% of screenplays achieving profitable theatrical outcomes.
Humor
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Our bond is private. Some things have to stay between us': Paolo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo on smoking, cinema and secrets

Paolo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo collaborate on La Grazia, an elegiac drama about an Italian president's final six months confronting moral choices as the old order fades.
World politics
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 month ago

How The Secret Agent Became Brazil's Reluctant Political Rorschach Test

Brazil's October presidential election marks the first vote since Bolsonaro's 2022 defeat, with Lula potentially becoming the country's first four-term president while the nation recovers from democratic threats.
Film
fromEntrepreneur
1 month ago

This Cult Filmmaker Learned Something About Audiences Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know'Make Them Feel Something'

Kevin Smith built a personal brand by connecting directly with fans, which created lasting career opportunities beyond individual film projects in an unpredictable industry.
Music
fromCN Traveller
2 months ago

"Music is the new gastronomy": How the rise of LatAm music is changing the face of travel

Latin American music is driving tourism and shaping cultural travel experiences in Puerto Rico, Colombia, Mexico and Belize.
fromColossal
2 months ago

Regina Silveira Pieces Together an Evolving Narrative of Latin America

Regina Silveira has spent the better part of three decades considering the relationship between media and meaning, particularly as it relates to Latin America. First presented in 1997, "To Be Continued..." features 100 black-and-white reproductions of photos, newspaper clippings, propaganda, advertisements, and more. Silveira nests each image into an oversized puzzle piece, which cuts off faces and scenes to leave fragments of pop culture icons, flora and fauna, and even the occasional mugshot spliced next to one another.
Arts
fromCurbed
2 months ago

The Cuban House of Spirits

The artists José Parlá and Claudia Hilda, his wife, live in a former fire station in Fort Greene surrounded by memories of Cuba, which Parlá's ­family fled in 1970 and where ­Hilda lived until recently. "There's a lot of magical realism here, a big mix of Cuban traditions and religion," says Parlá, pointing to an icon of la Caridad del Cobre, the island's patron saint, in the kitchen. "We cannot move her!"
Arts
fromArtnet News
2 months ago

How Wifredo Lam Made Surrealism More Surreal Than the Surrealists | Artnet News

An exhibition of Wifredo Lam is about as safe a bet as the Museum of Modern Art can place and still plausibly say that it's a bet on expanding the canon. The Cuban artist is one of the most famous painters of the 20th century, featured in almost every single key show about Surrealism. MoMA acquired his famous painting The Jungle in 1946, a few years after he made it.
Arts
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

FilmWatch Weekly: 'My Undesirable Friends: Part I' and other tributes to female power, plus Colombian dark comedy 'A Poet' and more * Oregon ArtsWatch

The project was prompted by a new practice requiring all journalists or outlets who received any non-Russian funding to self-identify as "foreign agents." At first, the reactions of TV Rain on-air host Anna Nemzer and her colleagues, forced to read an absurd disclaimer at the beginning of every story, is one of typically Russian dark humor.
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Film
fromKqed
2 months ago

Colombian Farce 'A Poet' Is a Brilliant Critique of Hypocritical Creatives

A Poet follows failed Colombian writer Oscar Restrepo, a farcical yet uncompromising poet who mentors a promising student, blending gritty satire with comedy and tragedy.
Film
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

Lav Diaz on 'Magellan,' His NYFF Joke About Casting Gael Garcia Bernal During Sex, and Bela Tarr's Stubborn Nature

Lav Diaz directed a more accessible biopic, Magellan, starring Gael García Bernal, filmed in the Philippines and foregrounding Magellan's abusive treatment of indigenous peoples.
#sundance
Film
fromRoger Ebert
2 months ago

Sundance 2026: If I Go Will They Miss Me, Night Nurse, Jaripeo | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

NEXT at Sundance showcases bold experimental films including a coming-of-age, an erotic thriller, and a queer rodeo documentary that feel artistically fearless.
Film
from48 hills
2 months ago

'Sirat' director Oliver Laxe: 'Cinema can penetrate the human metabolism' - 48 hills

Sirât uses Islamic eschatology, transcendental cinematic techniques, and hypnotic techno to create a visceral, metaphysical father’s search across a desert rave for his missing daughter.
Film
fromVulture
2 months ago

Bad Bunny Will Star in Residente's Historical Epic Porto Rico

Bad Bunny will star in Residente's Porto Rico, an epic Caribbean western about Puerto Rico's history, co-starring Edward Norton, Javier Bardem, and Viggo Mortensen.
#sundance-2026
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Berlinale: African films bring hopes of peace and tolerance

Gomis told DW the film includes a tribute to his late father. Part of the production was filmed in the village where his father was born, in the Cacheu region of Guinea-Bissau. "The grave you see in the film, the one the two characters speak to and touch that is my father's grave. The photograph of that man in the film that is my father," he said.
Film
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

Sundance Quick Takes

Once Upon a Time in Harlem compiles 1972 William Greaves footage of a Harlem Renaissance reunion, co-directed by his son, offering vital modern American cultural history.
Film
fromRoger Ebert
2 months ago

Sundance 2026: Birds of War, One in a Million, Silenced | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

Three documentaries follow long-term personal journeys through the Syrian conflict and global #MeToo legal fallout, revealing the profound personal costs of resilience.
#documentary
fromRoger Ebert
2 months ago

Sundance 2026: Leviticus, Buddy, Mum I'm Alien Pregnant | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

In a small Australian town, two queer kids-Naim (Joe Bird) and Ryan (Stacy Clausen)-share furtive glances and intense kisses in an abandoned mill. Oftentimes, violence, like the rough play fighting they often engage in, incites their sexual passions, which they must conceal in their fiercely religious town. Their adolescent passion turns deadly, however, when Naim discovers Ryan cheating on him with the preacher's son; so naturally the jilted teenager spitefully reports his lover's tryst.
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Film
fromAnOther
1 month ago

Sirat: The Year's Most Transcendent Cinematic Experience

Oliver Laxe's film Sirāt uses shocking moments and sensory immersion to suspend intellectual perception, creating a transcendental experience that leaves viewers feeling more connected to life and present in their bodies.
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

Memo to Distributors: Buy These 2026 Sundance Movies

Each year, most films leave the festival without a distributor in place, and we've only seen a handful of sales so far despite Netflix, Neon, Searchlight, Focus, A24, and more all on the ground. Plus, newcomer distribution groups like Row K and Warners' independent label also landed in Utah to make an impression. Alas, many movies still need a home, and below, IndieWire rounds up the ones we think distributors will click with - some more intrepid than others, but all worthy of a hopefully big-screen landing place.
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fromBerlin Art Link
2 months ago

Preview of 'Jaripeo' at Berlinale | Berlin Art Link

The event draws both locals and migrants returning from the U.S., celebrating the traditional Michoacán cowboy and creating an atmosphere of nostalgia-while serving as a grand reminder of "what it means to be a man" in rural Mexican society. Beneath the rodeo's spectacle lies its subconscious pulse: fleeting touches, knowing glances and secretive hookups in the woods behind the arena.
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Film
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Real Secret to a Filmmaker's Success

Coppola, Lucas, and Spielberg in the 1970s combined artistic daring with commercial ambition, reshaping Hollywood through auteurism and blockbuster filmmaking.
Film
fromVulture
2 months ago

This Year's Sundance Was Full of Failed Adults

Run Amok shows adults deeply traumatized by a school shooting while students treat the event matter-of-factly, revealing intergenerational differences in grief and coping.
Film
fromThe Independent
2 months ago

This Brazilian Oscar contender has the best acting you'll see in 2026

The Secret Agent portrays Brazil's 1977 military dictatorship through hallucinatory pulp-horror, blending political thriller, grotesque surrealism, and dark comedy centered on a vengeful disembodied limb.
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