Locarno Film Fest 2026 Review: A Family Worries a Foundation of Tradition May Slip Away in Asmahan Bkerat’s “Concrete Land”
A Bedouin family is threatened with having to resettle but also have shifting ideas about how to carry on from within in this compelling doc.
Adam Meeks on a Road to Recovery in “Union County”
The director of this Will Poulter-Noah Centineo drama discusses incorporating real court proceedings into this drama of brothers trying to shake addiction.
Locarno Film Fest 2026 Review: An Explosives Expert is Faced with His Life Imploding in Sergio Castro-San Martín’s “Il Cileno”
A man in political exile struggles to get comfortable in his new surroundings after his professional mining skills come in handy in another nation's revolution.
Todd Stephens on Taking the Long Way Back to “Gypsy 83”
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Tanaz Eshaghian on Getting a Measure of Justice in “An Eye for an Eye”
The director discusses tracking a compelling case in Iran involving a wife and mother who killed her abusive husband and finds her own life on the line.
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