Before You Fade Away Into Nothing is a truly rare thing: an all-American slow cinema film, tackling grief in a unique and fascinating way.
Before You Fade Away Into Nothing. Unhappy in its Own Way.
Category: Festivals
Reviews and dispatches exploring the best new cinema premiering around the world.
Mickey 17 Dials It Past 11
Bong Joon-Ho’s Mickey 17 is a loud and brash cartoonish science-fiction that has very little to say underneath its deafening bluster.
That Summer in Paris. A Small Delight.
A 30-year-old woman’s jaunt to Paris yields all sorts of beautiful insights on the nuances of life in Valentine Cadic’s That Summer in Paris.
Deaf Goes Deep on the Isolation of Hearing Loss
The travails of being deaf in a hearing world are viscerally explored in Eva Libertad’s powerful new work — live from Panorama!
Berlinale Shorts 2025 Part One: Dreams and Nightmares
From oddball animation to Asian coming-of-age stories to big tech’s uncanny valley, we look at ten shorts from the Berlinale Shorts programme.
Berlinale Shorts 2025 Part Two: Humanity And the Lack Thereof
The second half of the Berlinale Shorts goes deep on the emotions, with stunning love story Close to September easily the standout movie.
In Retrospect Expertly Captures German Xenophobia
In Retrospect explores the double-standards of Germany’s immigration policies: inviting people to come then demonising them for coming.
Hot Milk Loses It At The Beach
Lesbian desire and mother-daughter issues intermix on the beach in Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s debut feature Hot Milk. Playing in Competition.
Spring Night. A Sobering Experience.
Han Ye-ri provides an astonishing portrait of alcoholism in Kang Mi-ja’s deeply affect Spring Night, playing in Forum.
Night Stage Creates a New Landscape for the Gay Erotic Thriller
Night Stage by Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher is a fun De Palma homage from Brazil that reinvents the queer erotic thriller.