What is family? What are home and belonging? Who gets to decide about how those concepts apply to us? And what makes a good and a bad family or home? Those are some of the questions you will find ...

In the remote mountain village at the center of Thanasis Neofotistos' moody debut feature, the superstitious locals have a chant: "Nay Evil, yay Good!" It's a ritual meant to ward off strangers - and ...

"Sometimes the story we tell ourselves becomes the truth." One of the year's most heartwarming, uplifting films is Rental Family, inspired by the stories of real rental agencies in Tokyo, Japan.

Writer-director Kai Stänicke's first feature, whose German title is 'Der Heimatlose,' is a "universal fairy tale" about identity and memory whose world premiere opens the Berlinale's Perspectives ...

Premiering in the fest's Panorama section, the first fiction feature from Kilian Armando Friedrich features non-professional actors and a doc-style feel and may remind you of early Dardenne brothers ...

From Chloé Zhao and Joachim Trier to Guillermo del Toro and Kleber Mendonça Filho, this season's top filmmakers go behind the scenes of their acclaimed work.

For Kleber Mendonça Filho, filmmaking is an act of both provocation and preservation. Mendonça was born in 1968, in the early years of a ruthless military dictatorship—a time when cinema, like much ...

At an early screening of “Michael,” the new bio-pic based on the life of Michael Jackson, there was silence for a moment after the credits rolled, and then someone exclaimed, “That was fucking awesome ...

When the Oscars shortlist for Animated Short Film was unveiled, I remember Ukrainians [I’m currently residing in Lviv, Ukraine] being ecstatic to see I Died in Irpin and The Shyness of Trees ...