There are familiar mechanisms at work in Back to Buenos Aires which bear comparison to Ariel Dorfman’s play Death and the ...

Reviewed on September 13th at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival (51st edition) – Special Presentations. 105 Minutes.

It makes for compelling cinema but reaches the limit of where it can psychologically move towards. It all begins quite innocently enough. An old dirt bike is pulled out from the cobwebs and wishes ...

Interview: Alistair Banks Griffin - The Wolf Hour. Visit IONCINEMA.com for more American Independent film, World Cinema news, reviews & interviews!

Dawn of the Dead – George A. Romero (1978) “ Romero’s masterpiece. Perfect balance of horror, comedy and social commentary. One of those films in which every shot and every line of dialogue is ...

Interview: Isabelle Huppert - Elle. Visit IONCINEMA.com for more American Independent film, World Cinema & Documentary Film news, reviews & interviews!

A filmography that began in 1999 with the Locarno Film Festival-premiered Le Bleu des villes, across ten features to date largely exploring economic struggle, institutional power versus the individual ...

Meet the next generation of American indie producers in fiction and the docu field. Today the Sundance Institute announced the producers selected for the upcoming Producers Labs (narrative it actually ...

When he’s not exploring intimate relationship melodramas, French director Stéphane Brizé has been one of the most prominent contemporary voices exploring toxic workplace scenarios of late stage ...

As far as horrific moral fables about Catholic guilt and resisting temptation go, director Paolo Strippoli unleashes a doozy with his fourth feature, The Spiral. Had an inventive producer been so ...

It’s become increasingly clear celebrated writer Florian Zeller has a difficult time killing his darlings when it comes to adapting his own plays, perhaps nowhere more evident in his third feature, ...

Easily among our favorite curated lists/annual page turners, Filmmaker Magazine has unveiled their 25 New Faces (or 29, when you count the quad creative ...