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Eagles of the RepublicThis is the third film in director Tarik Saleh’s ‘Cairo Trilogy.’ Following his previous films, The Nile Hilton Incident (2017), which explored the 2011 Egyptian revolution (anti-authoritarian protests), and Boy from Heaven (2022)...
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Below the CloudsGianfranco Rosi′s new film, following his consecutive Golden Bear and Golden Lion wins at the Berlin and Venice film festivals, redirected the world’s documentary gaze toward Italy, specifically dealing with something in the Naple...
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OrphanCall it like father, like son: just as his father Andras Jeles often did, Laszlo Nemes also turns his focus to the generation of sons and daughters. The difference is that Nemes tends to delve into the dark chapters of 20th-centur...
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Nouvelle VagueRichard Linklater’s new project was a perilous adventure. Rather than simply recreating the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960), he sought to capture the film’s energy and freedom through black-and-white photography, out...
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Two ProsecutorsThe latest drama by Sergei Loznitsa, a master documentarian known for chronicling modern history, was screened in the Competition section at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is adapted from a novella by physicist Georgy Demidov,...
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DraculaAt a theater in a Transylvanian tourist town, a production of Dracula takes the stage. This Dracula is not the fearful, seductive figure we expect but one who changes depending on the audience’s whims. On and off the stage, actors...
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DreamsDreams is the ninth film from Mexican cineaste Michel Franco, who has relentlessly reshaped and reexamined themes of class, control and oppression, and love and death throughout his previous works. Fernando, a Mexican man who drea...
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La GraziaEntering his twilight years, a man wishes to reflect on his life, reconcile with the past, and reconnect with his children. This conventional narrative arc takes on greater complexity when the man in question is the president of I...
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RomeriaRomeria is the third in Carla Simon’s family trilogy, or summer trilogy, following Summer 1993 (2017) and Alcarras (2022). This film is also rooted in the director’s autobiographical narrative. Eighteen-year-old Marina, who lost b...
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The Lost BusBased on a true story, The Lost Bus unfolds against the backdrop of the devastating 2018 California wildfires, illustrating the desperate struggle of a school bus driver and a teacher as they fight to rescue twenty-two children. A...