In the early 2000s, a killer had been stalking sex workers in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad. After each kill, he would phone the newspaper to report where the body was buried. As his victim count increases, journalist Arezoo Rahimi (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) is sent to report on the murders, but as she grows…
Category: 2022
Peter von Kant
Peter von Kant (Denis Ménochet), an accomplished film director, is on the edge of another major career breakthrough when his life is derailed. He is visited at his home by his friend and actress Sidone (Isabelle Adjani) and her newest lover, the much younger Amir (Khalil Ben Gharbia). Struck by his beauty, Peter reworks his…
Last Film Show
At nine years old, Samay (Bhavin Rabari) is thrilled to attend his first film in the cinemas with his father (Dipen Raval) and mother (Richa Meena). The boy is immediately captivated by the images on screen, but is distraught to learn from his father that the film industry is below them, and that the only…
Piggy
Sara (Laura Galán) works at the family butcher shop which is struggling now that the cheaper grocery store has established itself in town. Between the family business and Sara’s weight, she is an easy target for the slimmer, cooler girls in town who ridicule her relentlessly. One day at the pool, Maca (Claudia Salas), Rodi…
The Quiet Girl
Cáit (Catherine Clinch) is a shy and reserved young girl, sent one summer by her mother (Kate Nic Chonaonaigh) to live with her Aunt Eibhlín (Carrie Crowley) on a dairy farm, as she has become too much of a hassle to have at home while they prepare for a new baby to be born. Receiving…
The 95th Academy Awards
With ninety-two unique films viewed in the cinema during the calendar year and countless streaming releases and catch-ups, 2022 certainly seemed a little more normal in terms of quantity, but the box office and theatrical landscape still have a long way to go before it feels safe to say things have “recovered.” While dollar-wise, things…
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Leo (Eden Dambrine) and Rémi (Gustav De Waele) are two inseparable friends. When Leo is not working on the family flower farm and Rémi is not practicing the oboe, the two boys can often be found in the bunker playing knights, racing their bikes down the country roads, or just lazing about one another’s houses…
Aftersun
Calum (Paul Mescal) is celebrating his thirty-first birthday on a vacation to Turkey with his eleven-year-old daughter, Sophie (Frankie Corio), who captures the trip through the lens of her MiniDV camera. The two revel in each other’s company, but there is also a distance that Sophie notices as her father begins to show signs of…
Women Talking
When a young man in a Mennonite community is caught raping one of the women and gives the names of the other men in the community who have acted out in violence, the women convene to decide what they will do as a result of this long history of abuse towards them. Without a word…
The Marquee Topic 