When Melbourne’s Kitty Green was backpacking around Europe in her teens, she never imagined it would one day provide inspiration for her debut Australian feature film, The Royal Hotel.
If we use our fingers to swipe left or right in our search for a potential love interest, then Christos Nikou’s Fingernails is a painful metaphor for our digits, as his protagonists use an excruciating technology to find if their partner is a true match.
Following his intense marriage breakdown drama Custody, Xavier Legrand’s provocative psychological thriller The Successor takes a disturbing look at the patriarchy – from the male perspective.
As the various films in competition at San Sebastián International Film Festival roll out in a series of premieres, Noah Pritzker’s Ex-Husbands found itself to be one of the few U.S. productions to be accompanied by its cast this year – thanks to its SAG-AFTRA interim agreement.