Ethan Hawke anchors the film with a quietly commanding performance, embodying a man whose resolve hardens even as doubt creeps in.
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IndieX Film Fest is proud to announce the award nominations and semi-finalists for the August 2026 season. The finalists, competing across 65 categories, have been selected from an official pool with a 50.1% acceptance rate, based on submissions from 16 countries with a total runtime of 18:22:08, along with short screenplays. The nominated projects rank […]
THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE-2026
Here's my compilation of film ratings from TFF attendees for TFF #53. Respondents were asked to rate each film they saw on a 1-5 scale with 1 being not-so-good and 5 being "way good". Over 60 attendees responded to the poll. The traditional requirement for inclusion is that a film had to have been seen by a third of the respondents. 15 films...
Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival, the most prominent film event and market in the Arab world, has canceled its sixth edition that was scheduled to take place from Dec. 3 to 12. The event will return in the fourth quarter of 2027 with a “renewed vision and a program that continues to celebrate cinema […]
Maha Harada spent two decades building scenes on the page before she ever stood behind a camera. Now 64, the best-selling Japanese author is making her feature directorial debut with “In My Father’s Room,” a film adapted from her own short story “An Unnecessary Man,” and it arrives in competition at the San Sebastian Film […]
Indian feature “Angh,” the feature directorial debut of Theja Rio, has taken the top prize in the Toronto Film Festival’s Platform section, an award that comes with automatic entry into the Oscars’ international feature film race for 2027. “Angh” was the only Indian film selected for the section this year, and the win comes with […]
Critics Campus 2026 participant Jamie Tak speaks to director Lisandro Alonso about audience expectations, the importance of objects and landscapes in his filmmaking, and the influence of Iranian cinema on his work.
Long Long Night (Youm Kyu-Bock, 2026) 3½ out of 5 stars South Korean director Youm Kyu-Bock’s debut feature, Long Long Night, is an adaptation of a 2021 prize-winning children’s book that was later turned into a stage musical. It tells the tale of the last white boulder rhinoceros on Earth, who protects—and journeys across the […]
The Stunt Driver (Michael Dowse, 2026) 2 out of 5 stars Ken Carter, aka “The Mad Canadian,” was a stunt driver who performed many feats of automobile derring-do, much like his American contemporary, the better-known Evel Knievel. In 1976, two years after Knievel attempted a rocket-powered jump across Idaho’s Snake River (not quite making it), […]
Early in her illustrious career, Spanish director Isabel Coixet broke out internationally with “My Life Without Me,” in which Sarah Polley plays a young mother who conceals the fact that she has terminal cancer. Therefore, not wanting to retread covered ground, the prolific Coixet initially was not keen to take on an adaptation of Michela […]