Festivals & Awards

“One Battle After Another” Wins Record Number of Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

The winners of the 2025 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards.

Sundance Film Festival Announces 2026 Line-Up

The Sundance Film Festival is back!

Palm Springs Film Festival Announces 2026 Lineup

The 2025 Chicago Film Critics Association nominees.

Reflections on the 2025 Tailinn Black Nights Film Festival

A recounting of time spent at the Estonian film festival.

No Good Deed Will Go Unpunished: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura on “The Secret Agent”

We speak to the writer/director and star of this year’s Cannes favorite about censorship, artistic collaboration, and more.

Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Demon Pond” and Japanese Yokai Culture 

Our final dispatch from the fest is full of monsters, folktales, and ghost stories.

It’s The Funniest Shit: Hikari on ‘Rental Family’

An interview with the writer/director of “Rental Family.”

Tokyo Film Festival 2025: Mamoru Oshii on “Angel’s Egg” 

An interview with a legend about his resurrected project.

Tokyo Film Festival 2025: Journey into Sato Tadao

We talk to Japan’s preeminent film critic as a documentary about him premieres at Tokyo’s premier festival.

A Preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival

A preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival.

CIFF 2025: The Book of Sijjin & Illiyyin, The Holy Boy, Anything That Moves

On three films from this year’s After Dark program in Chicago.

CIFF 2025: True North, Pasa Faho, Sun Ra: Do the Impossible

On three films from Chicago’s Black Perspectives program.

CIFF 2025: The Beauty of the Donkey, The Eyes of Ghana, Below the Clouds

On three ambitious documentaries from this year’s Chicago film festival.