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Sundance, the most important independent film festival in the world, awarded the Bolivian film directed by Alejandro Loayza.

“WOW NANNY,” I texted to one of my Sundance critic pals—she on the West Coast, me on the East—after I had viewed Nikyatu Jusu’s debut feature, which a few days later won the grand prize in the festival’s US Dramatic competition. Except for a few screenings in seven “Satellite” locations across the US, the 2022 Sundance Film Festival was entirely virtual. Given that the decision to put everything online was made only two weeks before the January 20 opening date, it was amazing how...

The villagers refer to her as Old Maid Maria, invoking the witch’s name as a way to make...

Goran Stolevski’s feature debut You Won’t Be Alone, produced by Causeway Films, will make its world premiere at the renowned Sundance Film Festival

Emergency services. Hello? Magnolia Pictures has debuted the official US trailer for the highly acclaimed, award-winning Danish drama The Guilty, from

Supported by the Guanajuato Film Commission, this powerful drama is an example of how the state of Guanajuato creates the ideal conditions for film productions

Over the coming weeknights at 9:30pm on SBS World Movies, enjoy a selection of the best Australian cinema, with plenty more local gems streaming at SBS On Demand.

Ana Katz, The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet, 2021, DCP, black-and-white, sound, 73 minutes. THE PRIZES WERE AWARDED a month ago, some very big deals have closed in recent weeks, and the Sundance Film Festival has closed its streaming platform, hopefully never to be used again—at least not as the primary means of connecting Sundance’s chosen movies to Sundance audiences. Having covered the festival for thirty-two years, the place—Park City, Utah—and my ten-day routine there is stamped int...

From left: Ale and Amalia Ulman in El Planeta Bittersweet n low. TWITTER Amalia Ulmans droll first feature stars the writer-director opposite her real-life mother as an impoverished pair shrugging off destitution in a post-financial crisis town on the Spanish coast. Multidisciplinary artist Amalia Ulman makes an appealingly idiosyncratic first foray into features with El Planeta, a captivating throwback to the shaggy aesthetic of micro-budget 90s New York indies that plays like Grey Gardens w...

Walks a wobbly fine line. TWITTER Sofia Kappel stars as a young Swedish woman keen to break into the adult film industry in L.A. in Ninja Thybergs feature debut. A young woman arrives from a distant land in the capital of a certain entertainment industry and ascends the ladder of success, only to lose a bit of her soul on each rung of the climb. That, of course, is the plot of Showgirls, but its not like Paul Verhoeven, or anyone whos written a version of Faust, ever patented the concept. Thi...