TIFF 2026: Miwa Nishikawa’s ‘Children Untold’ Is A Sweeping, Absorbing Epic
Celebrated Japanese filmmaker/author Miwa Nishikawa has adapted her own novel, Children Untold, into an extraordinary epic film that takes place ...
Celebrated Japanese filmmaker/author Miwa Nishikawa has adapted her own novel, Children Untold, into an extraordinary epic film that takes place ...
In Polish filmmaker Grzegorz Dębowski’s What Belongs to Others (Cudze Rzeczy) sourpussed Kasia (Monika Kwiatkowska) and her bullying boyfriend Darek ...
This year’s Best International Feature nominees were fairly easy to predict. (Congrats to NEON for securing 4 out of 5 ...
Brazil could strike Oscar gold two years in a row with another film that warns of the dangers of authoritarianism. ...
Sound of Falling is one of the most uniquely told stories of ths year. Director Mascha Schilinski weaves a tale ...
With preliminary Oscar voting almost over—it ends at 5pm PST on December 12th—and the shortlists being revealed on December 16th, ...
Juan Manuel Fernández’s The Altar Boy, The Priest And The Gardener, is Costa Rica’s International Feature submission, one of 13 ...
Ivona’ Juka’s second narrative feature, Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day is set amidst the turbulent backdrop of 1950’s communist Yugoslavia when ...
One of the only ways to experience the impressive work being done by Italian filmmakers each year on the big ...
Waves, Jiří Mádl’s stirring shortlisted International Feature Oscar submission from Czechia, is set against the tumultuous backdrop of the Prague ...
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