Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the ...

Sean Durkin first emerged on the American indie scene when Martha Marcy May Marlene premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film ...

Interview: Damian Kocur - La Manche. Visit IONCINEMA.com for more American Independent film, World Cinema news, reviews & ...

Bosnian-Dutch filmmaker Ena Sendijarević first came onto the scene when she followed her Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight preemed ...

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years-old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the ...

Berlin-based visual artist Ann Oren transitioned from more than a decade immersed in short-form, docu and experimental cinema into her audacious feature debut, Piaffe — a bold, body-conscious fever ...

In several ways, Jeanne Herry’s latest socially conscious drama Garance (unfortunately outfitted with the inconspicuously bland international title, Another Day) serves as a maturation of her ...

Not unlike the festival strategy unveiling for Reprise back in 2006, the Toronto International Film Festival was the lieu for the North American premiere to Thelma. Joachim Trier‘s first foray into ...

If ex-Attorney General and fascist sentinel Pam Bondi was ever credited as uttering anything worth repeating, it was her childish ‘emperor’s new clothes’ technique testifying before congress in her ...

Initially, it would seem Asghar Farhadi’s decision to present a contemporary world littered with anachronistic tendencies in Parallel Tales served some greater narrative purpose. Unfortunately, the ...

Americans can’t quite seem to directly engage with their ills of the present by connecting them with misdeeds of the past, for a myriad of reasons, but this translates in a lack of contemporary ...

Where Maria Monge ‘s Treat Me Like Fire excels is in abiding by a frenetic fuelled street film that is more steeped in fantasy, than reality. The French title of Joueurs actually translates into the ...