Conan O'Brien can be forgiven for quipping "Over to you, Estonia" after Flow won Latvia its first Oscar last month. The concept of a shared Baltic Cinema is st...
The drive from Thessaloniki's airport into the city begins like any other: car dealerships and furniture stores that give way to bustling street life. Home to ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. Grand Tour opens in theaters on March 28 from MUBI.
If Chris Marker and ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2023 IFFR coverage. The Heirloom is now in theaters from Factory 25.
In The Heirloom, a couple fac...
It’s mid-July and I’m sitting in my living room, wondering what Ben Burtt, the sound designer behind some of the most beloved cultural artefacts of the 20th ce...
The last time Hong Sangsoo failed to feature in a Berlinale program, Childish Gambino’s “This is America” was in the charts and Green Book was on its way t...
The Blue Trail, the lively new film from Gabriel Mascaro, takes its name from the secretions of a mythical snail. Azure and oozing, the substance, when dropped...
“The id grows tedious,” art critic Jackson Arn wrote recently, “when left to speak too freely.” The Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude keeps his in check by grou...
Few things loosen the grip of winter like a sun-kissed film. Add listless days and young love to the narrative and you might even forget the icy chill outside....
Learning about Gabriele D'Annunzio’s 16-month occupation of Fiume, a tale vividly retold in Igor Bezinović’s new, Tiger Award-winning documentary Fiume o M...
Irish-born, Berlin-based, Rory O'Connor has been covering the European film festival circuit since 2012. A regular contributor to The Film Stage, his work has also appeared in Frieze, The Playlist, and CineVue.
