The Film Stage

Dry Leaf Trailer: Alexandre Koberidze Finds Beauty Through a 2008 Sony Ericsson Phone

While filmmakers tout their usage of the latest and greatest technology through extensive aspect-ratio videos and infographics, leave it to one filmmaker to ut...

Alison McAlpine In Conversation With Walter Murch on Her Oscar-Nominated Perfectly a Strangeness

Nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the 98th Academy Awards, perfectly a strangeness marks the first short from Canadian filmmaker Alison McAlpine, di...

Berlinale Review: Foreign Travel is a Rousing Ode to the Transformative Powers of Reading

No one moves abroad in Ted Fendt’s Foreign Travel; people walk plenty—mostly around Kreuzberg, Berlin—but the kind of wandering this erudite film is concer...

Berlinale Review: Yellow Letters Targets Authoritarianism with Timidity

Shortly before the 2025 edition of the Berlinale, incoming festival head Tricia Tuttle was outspoken about filmmakers shunning the event over fears they would ...

Berlinale Review: My Wife Cries Is Another Poetic Tapestry From Angela Schanelec

Deep into the second week of another tumultuous (and freezing cold) year at the Berlin Film Festival, Angela Schanelec arrives with a welcome reminder of what ...

Berlinale Review: Home Stories Tells an Ambitious If Uneven Intergenerational Tale

In Home Stories, a young woman from the town of Griez in East Germany is selected to compete on a TV talent show—an opportunity that will require her family to...

Berlinale Review: Trial of Hein Is a Rigorous Debut Feature Questioning Identity and Memory

From Biblical tales of the prodigal son to Zach Braff’s Garden State, stories of returning home after an extended absence are ripe territory to explore reconci...

Revelations of Divine Love Trailer: Caroline Golum’s Acclaimed Medieval Tale Arrives This March

Premiering to acclaim at the 2025 FIDMarseille, Caroline Golum's second feature Revelations of Divine Love was acquired by Several Futures, who ...

Berlinale Review: Crocodile is a Choppy Yet Inspiring Portrait of Resourceful Filmmaking

The ever-increasing accessibility of filmmaking means that anyone with basic technology can shoot and edit a film. However, only those with a story worth telli...

Berlinale Review: The Day She Returns Is One of Hong Sangsoo’s Most Elemental and Revelatory Gems

Sooner or later, conversations around the ever-growing oeuvre of Hong Sangsoo all land on the same word: repetition. That's kind of inevitable: few could e...

News

New Directors/New Films 2026 Lineup Unveiled

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Trailers

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New Trailer for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner and Chime / Serpent’s Path Double Feature

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Reviews

Project Hail Mary Review: Sci-Fi Buddy Picture Takes Time to Soar

Pompei: Below the Clouds Review: A Delicate Look at Life Under Mount Vesuvius

André Is an Idiot Review: A Noble Document of a Dumb Decision

Features

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Interviews

Werner Herzog on Dreams, Defeats, Ghost Elephants, and Why He’s Not a Workaholic

Alison McAlpine In Conversation With Walter Murch on Her Oscar-Nominated Perfectly a Strangeness

“We Cut 95% of It Out”: Matt Johnson on Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Constant Re-Editing, and Season 3

Podcasts

Remembering Tom Noonan with Keith Uhlich

Werner Herzog on Dreams, Defeats, Ghost Elephants, and Why He’s Not a Workaholic

The B-Sides of Anthony Hopkins with Brian Raftery

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Dry Leaf Trailer: Alexandre Koberidze Finds Beauty Through a 2008 Sony Ericsson Phone

Alison McAlpine In Conversation With Walter Murch on Her Oscar-Nominated Perfectly a Strangeness

Berlinale Review: Foreign Travel is a Rousing Ode to the Transformative Powers of Reading

Berlinale Review: Yellow Letters Targets Authoritarianism with Timidity

Berlinale Review: My Wife Cries Is Another Poetic Tapestry From Angela Schanelec

Berlinale Review: Home Stories Tells an Ambitious If Uneven Intergenerational Tale

Berlinale Review: Trial of Hein Is a Rigorous Debut Feature Questioning Identity and Memory

Revelations of Divine Love Trailer: Caroline Golum’s Acclaimed Medieval Tale Arrives This March

Berlinale Review: Crocodile is a Choppy Yet Inspiring Portrait of Resourceful Filmmaking

Berlinale Review: The Day She Returns Is One of Hong Sangsoo’s Most Elemental and Revelatory Gems