If Australian films are thin on the ground at the 83rd Venice Film Festival — there are two features including Russell Crowe’s music documentary What Love Builds — the festival
Who would have known that Gus Van Sant’s dark comedy Dead Man’s Wire, his first film in seven years, would be one of the biggest surprises at the Venice Film
Melbourne writer-director Natalie Erika James has focused on women grappling with dark forces in her psychological horror films. Her dementia-oriented debut Relic (2020) starred an exceptional Robyn Nevin; in her
Linh Dan Nguyen Phan, who turns 30 this year, is the first female director of photography (DOP) to come out of Vietnam. At the Cannes Film Festival this year, she
This year, Cannes critics were largely united in their belief that Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland were the best films in the competition. Both films won major prizes,
Moroccan director Maryam Touzani, 45, and her French-Moroccan husband, producer Nabil Ayouch, 56, are quite the filmmaking couple. The queen and king of Moroccan cinema, we might say. Their award-winning, groundbreaking films are
Before Thursday’s announcement of the 79th official programme, Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux had warned that Hollywood studios no longer want to send their tentpole films to the festival. Essentially,
A former high school English teacher who lived in the UK for five years as a teenager, French actress Camille Cottin, 47, is understandably, fluent in English. After she gained
Given Wim Wenders’ love of the Australian outback, where he filmed one of his favourite movies, 1991’s Until the End of the World, one might have thought that he’d include
As always, the Berlin Film Festival has delivered some surprises. Perhaps the moment that has gained most traction was at the premiere of Rosebush Pruning on Saturday night when Callum