"Documentary changes what people think about what they think they know already" - Roger Graef, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement...

A palatable blend of Balkan film, traditional national cuisine, and stimulating academic conversation has come to define Romania's annual Divan...

After more than a decade, Godfrey Reggio returns to write and direct for the big screen once more. Following on...

One of the tales which makes up Flaubert's Trois Contes is 'La Légende de Saint-Julien l'Hospitalier'. Its message is poignant: in order...

Seung-wook Byeon's South-Korean film The Cat (2011) evokes some of the classic East Asian horrors, such as Japan's The Grudge (2002) and Ring (1998), both of...

Calin Peter Netzer's Romanian drama about the relationship between an ageing mother and her selfish and immature adult son won...

Giuseppe Tornatore's defining masterpiece Cinema Paradiso (1988) celebrates a Blu-ray re-release and a return to the big screen this month as part...

Robert Altman's controversial adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel gave birth to The Long Goodbye in 1973. In typical Altman style, with an...

Mike Lerner's and Maxim Pozdorovkin's Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer opens with a quotation from Bertolt Brecht's Messingkauf Dialogues: "Art is not a mirror...

In what he calls 'the age of the unsupported polemic', Simon Schama far from dismisses an opinionated documentary style. Perhaps...