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From the blockbuster stage and screen iterations of “War Horse” to the underseen “When the Whales Came” to the recent, BAFTA-winning “Kensuke’s Kingdom,” the books of English author Michael Morpurgo have reliably made for sturdy, literate family films of a comfortingly old-fashioned stripe. That streak continues with “Lucy Lost.” A handsome and emotionally involving wartime […]
Written by Pia Stoffers A conversation with Abdulmohsen Almutairi, Director of Memories of the North (2022) Before we delve into Memories of the North—the short film that won an award for Best Non-European Independent Documentary at ÉCU in 2023—it’s worth taking a moment to consider the film’s central theme: memory. Have you ever noticed how […]
Written by Pia Stoffers When we watch a film, it typically works with a wide range of elements to move us emotionally or leave us with a lasting impression. Every filmmaker – including those within the independent film scene – has their own artistic signature through which they reach their audience and create films that […]
Costa Brava, Lebanon‘s Mounia Akl, Everybody Loves Jeanne‘s Celine Devaux and The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo‘s Diego Céspedes are among the baker’s dozen projects selected for the upcoming Oxbelly writers’ lab retreat.
Qatar’s Doha Film Institute has announced the recipients of its 2026 Spring Grants — as usual we focus on fiction feature film projects in three groupings – MENA – Feature Narrative – Development, MENA – Feature Narrative – Production and Non-MENA – Feature Narrative – Post-Production which awards several Cannes Film Festival offerings.
Actor and producer Aamir Khan will attend a special Melbourne screening of “Lagaan” on July 9 to mark the film’s 25th anniversary, kicking off the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne’s (IFFM) 17th edition a month ahead of the festival’s main dates. The 17th edition of IFFM will run from Aug. 13-23. The curtain raiser will […]
Kieu Chinh has spent 68 years as an actor, and most of those years carried her further from the country where she began, through Hollywood, through “The Joy Luck Club,” through “The Sympathizer,” through a career built largely outside the borders of the country that shaped her. This week, that arc bends back. “Chrysalis,” adapted […]
WHO'S GOT WHAT? DISTRIBUTORS: NETFLIX
Each summer it has become the habit here at MTFB to take a look at the film distribution companies that have the largest presence at TFF historically and scan their list of films for potential titles that could end up in the San Juans come Labor Day.
This year, I calibrated the last five TFFs to determine which companies on which to...
Film of the Month Lovebug - Jalaludin Trautmann, David Mahmoudieh Best Narrative Film Headache - Marianne Surzur Best Indie Film A World Class Superpower - Mikael Genachte-Le Bail Best Drama La Última Lluvia - Alexander Rivera Best Comedy A World Class Superpower - Mikael Genachte-Le Bail Best Romance Film Checked Shirt - Bonde Sham Best Parody A World Class Superpower - Mikael Genachte-Le...