Valterix's viral Kingdom Beat (TikTok Version) is an uplifting trap-inspired song shaped by an oppressively heavy beat and an instantly recognizable bombastic organ hook. Kingdom Beat has already appeared in several alternate forms, including slowed and later trap variations, reflecting the way contemporary electronic tracks are increasingly adapted into different tempos and edits for short...
Funk (Aly Muritiba, 2026) 3½ out of 5 stars Brazilian funk music—or, more specifically, “kinky funk”—is filled with bumping, heavy-on-the-bass beats and other electronic sounds, coupled with explicitly sexual lyrics and accompanying salacious gyrations. Called “putaria” in the favelas (the dense, lower-income settlements outside major urban centers such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo), […]
Epic orchestral music meets cinematic electronic power in this intense battle between light and darkness. "Steel & Light" – a dramatic soundtrack of impossible odds, awakening strength, and final confrontation. Follow Matías Castro Cancino: ▸ Official: http://www.matiascastromusic.com/ ▸ IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4372851/ #epicmusic #cinematicmusic #orchestral #epicelectronic ? Track:...
The Best Shorts Competition is unique in the industry. Attracting both powerhouse companies as well as talented new filmmakers, The Best Shorts is an exceptional, truly international awards competition, not a traditional film festival – which allows filmmakers from around the world to enter their films in this prestigious competition.
Established in 2011, Best Shorts is an avant-garde...
Dec 18, 2025: World Premiere of the 4K Digital Restoration of ) with Innovative Interactive Musical Accompaniment The score will be provided by South Korean composer Yongbom Lee and produced by 2eleven music. The composition will be performed by Broken Frames Syndicate. The acoustic music will be augmented by electronic sound — produced by the brain activity of the violist [...]
IFFI Goa 2025, 10: Film selection--The Good (rare), the Bad (many) and the Ugly (too many)
Films that are screened at IFFI are selected by a large committee that takes several weeks to vet the available movies, entered in the festival. Each category of films has a different committee assigned to it. The Preview Committee (sometimes referred to as the Selection Jury) for the...
(Summary generated by AI.) The third adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel "The Shinking Man," directed by Jan Kounen and featuring Jean Dujardin, has received mixed reviews. Alexandre Desplat's score is uniquely French and combines subtle electronic and acoustic elements. While initially low-key, the music evolves to include more vigorous themes, blending psychological thriller and...
Monday, October 20
1:00 PM Hedda at Film House
Hedda, a newlywed thrill-seeker, throws an extravagant party in the hopes of helping her husband receive a professorship. However, a lover from her past appears, and disrupts this event.
1:15 PM Timestamp at Black Box
Following teachers and students across Ukraine over the course of a school year, Kateryna Gornostai captures...
By Liza Foreman
In Bleeding Blue Bird, Paris-based director Lev Prudkin opens a trapdoor beneath the stage and plunges us into the metaphysical. Making its world premiere in New York on October 18, the film introduces a surreal fever dream of theatrical obsession, identity fracture, and the dangerous blurring of art and life in this UK-Russia-Ukraine co-production, shot on...
By Liza Foreman
In Bleeding Blue Bird, Paris-based director Lev Prudkin opens a trapdoor beneath the stage and plunges us into the metaphysical. Making its world premiere in New York on October 18, the film introduces a surreal fever dream of theatrical obsession, identity fracture, and the dangerous blurring of art and life in this UK-Russia-Ukraine co-production, shot on location in...