Cannes Film Fest 2023: Best Films–“The Breaking Ice” by Anthony Chen

The location of Anthony Chen’s intimate film, The Breaking Ice, the icy Chinese city of Yanji near the North Korean border, offers insights into the circumstances of its protagonists lives, which are suspended as if frozen in place.

Cannes Film Fest 2016: Midnight and Special Screenings–

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS: “Gimme Danger” (Jim Jarmusch), “Train to Busan” (Yeon Sang-ho).

Monster: Kore-eda Hirokazu (Cannes Film Fest 2023)

Like Rashomon, several of Kore-eda Hirokazu’s films use different perspectives to get to one truth. In Monster, a boy (Soya Kurokawa) complaints that a teacher has struck him and bullied him, and his mother (Sakura Ando) presses for answers, which are not readily easy to find. Ando is outstanding, as is Hinata Hiiragi as the […]

Berlin Film Fest 2024: Winner in All Categories (Golden Bear, Silver Bear)

Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance: Sebastian Stan for A Different Man

Berlin Film Fest 2024: “Memories of a Burning Body,” “No Other Land” Win Panorama Audience Awards (Voted by the Public)

No Other Land, directed by a collective of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, traces the Israeli government’s attempts to expel Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, a rural village in the West Bank.