The Spanish director’s new film, Bitter Christmas, marks another step towards dramatic weight, and away from his early madcap humour.
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Panahi received the 2025 Palme d'Or, the highest honour at the Cannes Film Festival. He’s also the focus of the 2025 Sydney Film Festival retrospective.
He won global fame for his politically charged films about the fight for independence in Algeria and was central to building the country’s film industry.
Does the tightening of sartorial standards at the film festival represent a cultural retreat, or a practical return to form?
While Trump’s proposal to impose 100 per cent tariffs on foreign films may prove to be more bluster than policy, it reflects language ideologies that have long constrained the American film industry.
The Senegalese-French director is a master storyteller with films like Dahomey and Atlantics weaving the supernatural with the real.
Despite winning awards at festival after festival, the film has been unable to find a company to distribute it in the US.
Before the Mad Max franchise began, The Cars That Ate Paris was Australia’s first ‘car crash’ film. It would become a uniquely Australian film genre.
With meticulous attention to food and how it is prepared, the film’s plot embraces simplicity.
The powerful rites of passage drama follows the tale of three 16-year-old girls on a post-GCSE bender in a party resort in Crete.
The director passed away in Bamako at the age of 84. He was an incomparable force in Africa’s cinema history.
Netflix requires its narrative feature films be shot on approved cameras. This can lead to a flat, depthless look, in contrast to the graininess of celluloid.
Wake in Fright premiered at Cannes in 1971 but met with a shocked reaction. It largely fell into obscurity for 40 years, yet is now considered a classic.
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