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JUNE JOÃO PAULA MARQUES: TWO TIMES JOÃO (2024) Two Times João Liberada/Duas Vezes João Liberada, 70 minw., Paula Tomás Marques, 2025,...

STRANGER (Zhengfan Yang 2024) Chinese The Chinese filmmaker Zhengfan Yang presents a sequence of seven vignettes, motly confined to hotel rooms,...

ZHENGFAN YANG: STRANGER (2024) People come, people go This film, focused on a series of hotel rooms, made me think, perhaps illogically, of...

SAD JOKES (Fabian Stumm 2024 A gay German director makes a film about a gay German director in which he plays the lead, experimenting with a mix...

KYUKA. BEFORE SUMMER'S END (Kostis Charamountanis 2024) A young Greek provocateur, takes us to a father and his two adult children spending summer...

FABIAN STAMM, JONAS DASSLER IN SAD JOKES FABIAN STUMM: SAD JOKES (2024) A film about a screenplay nobody likes, which might be this one The...

KOSTIS CHARMOUNTANIS: KYUKA. BEFORE SUMMER'S END (2024) Playful squabbling by a Greek island The yacht, the vomiting, the view of spoiled...

NO SLEEP TILL (Alexandra Simpson 2024) In this poetic, fiction and real, portrait of Florida as it rolls into a hurricane, Simpson uses her...

LISTEN TO THE VOICES (Maxime Jean-Baptiste 2024) A visit to French Guyana and family grieving at different stages about a violent murder a...

ALEXANDRA SIMPSON: NO SLEEP TILL (2024) People, Americans, a Florida hurricane, explored visually, eavsdropping on quiet amid chaos In her...

MELRICK DIOMAR MAXIME JEAN-BAPTISTE: LISTEN TO THE VOICES/KOUTÉ VWA (2024) Grieving and revenge in French Guyana Melrick Diomar is a boy...

LESSON LEARNED/FEKETE PONT (Bálint Szimler 2024) This is a film about an elementary school in Hungary, a new idealistic teacher, and a...

Five new Filmleaf reviews of ND/NF films are now posted. Go HERE THE ASSISTANT (Wilhelm Sasnal, Anka Sasnal 2025) Polish CYCLEMAHESH (Suhel...

GOV'T ATTACK ON 'NO OTHER LAND' SINCE ITS OSCAR HAS POPULARIZED IT IN ISRAEL From Twitter today: Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי...

PAUL MÁTIS, ANNA MESZÖLY in LESSON LEARNED BALINT SZIMLER: LESSON LEARNED/FEKETE PONT (2024) TRAILER Life at school THis is a docudrama,...

NIKOLO GHVINIASHVILI, NIKA GONGADZE, CENTER, IN HOLY ELECTRICITY TATO KOTETISHVILI: HOLY ELECTRICITY (2024) Gems from junk TRAILER This...

SOICHIRO TANAKA AND MINAMI OHBA IN THE HEIGHT OF THE COCONUT TREES THE HEIGHT OF THE COCONUT TREES (Du Jie 2024) Love and suicide and ghosts...

ATIYE ZARE ARANDI: GRAND ME (2024) A child of divorced parents decides who she wants to live with We who have watched Iranian films, maybe...

CYCLEMAHESH (Suhel Banerjee 2024) During Covid a young man became stranded far from home so he rode a bike across the country Cyclemahesh won...

PIOTR TROJAN, ANDRZEJ KONOPA IN THE ASSISTANT WILHELM AND ANIKA SASNAL: THE ASSISTANT (2025) Surreal life with an early 20th-century inventor ...

NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025: FILMS AND DESCRIPTIONS Films will screen at either The Museum of Modern Art’s Titus 1 / Titus 2 Theaters (11 W....

JEWISHNESS AT THE 2025 OSCARS You could say sex workers shone at this year's Oscars most of all, but JERUSALEM POST notes with reason "Jewish...

See The Oscar Expert's video review of ANORA from Cannes, which nails it. He predictred all that it got. NOte also how highly he speaks of Mark...