Umair Bilal spent months in Sehwan, Pakistan, trying to direct a documentary. Then he gave up. “Every time I tried to impose that logic onto Sehwan, it felt like I was working against the place rather than with it,” the Pakistani filmmaker tells Variety of his debut feature, “As Light as Air,” which premieres in […]

The family living in the house that “Rehmat” uses as Rashid Ali’s ancestral home lost a son to a drug overdose shortly after Indian filmmaker Gurvinder Singh and his crew first met them. Singh tells Variety, “The actual family that lives there lost their 19-year-old son after we met them for the first time. When […]

Emerging Italian director Giovanni Tortorici, whose feature debut “Diciannove” made a splash last year after launcing from the Venice Horizons section, is in competition at the Locarno Film Festival with his followup, “Ketticè,” a coming-of-age drama set in 2012 Palermo, featuring Monica Bellucci who is among the film’s few professional actors. “Ketticè” explores the dynamics between […]

O’Shea Jackson Jr., Dave Franco, and Mason Thames appear in “Idiots” by Macon Blair, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. (Courtesy of Sundance Institute) By Ramona Flume The sweltering dog days of summer are still lingering, with temperatures tipping into triple digits, but the Sundance Institute–supported films scheduled for theatrical and streaming […] The post...

By Jessica Herndon Before cameras rolled on The Invite, director Olivia Wilde and cinematographer Adam Newport-Berra immersed themselves in the work of filmmakers they admired. The post How Olivia Wilde and Adam Newport-Berra Crafted the Visual Language of “The Invite” first appeared on sundance.org.

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Luca Guadagnino will receive the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The Italian director, who is premiering his seven-hour Bernardo Bertolucci documentary “Joie de Vivre” at this year’s festival, is being honored as “a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry,” according to […]

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Review of Ludwig Göransson's music for The Odyssey

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