Once you become entangled in Samuel Beckett’s writing, you remain entangled—always. His late works Company (1980), Ill Seen Ill Said (1981)
All That’s Left of You, written and directed by Cherien Dabis, was one of the notable films screened in the “Broken Olive Branch” section
Franz Xaver Kroetz, a German novelist, playwright, actor, and theater and film director, was born in 1946 in Munich
Peter Watkins, the left-wing filmmaker and one of the most unconventional British directors, has died at the age of ninety. Many regard him as a pioneer of the docudrama genre—a
In El Conde, Pablo Larraín portrays the persistence of evil — an immortal force that feeds on itself like a vampire to survive. For him, history must repeat itself to
If Büchner conceives madness as the product of military oppression and humiliation, and Herzog transforms it into an existential nightmare, then Mehrjui portrays it as a symptom of cultural rupture—a
Fremont, directed by Babak Jalali, is not a film that can be easily confined to the framework of a social drama about migration. The film tells the story of Donya,
From Au Hasard Balthazar to Eo: Animal, Suffering, and Transcendental Aesthetics in Cinema In 2022, Jerzy Skolimowski made the film EO, which can be seen as a kind of tribute
Amir Naderi is a distinct and unique figure in Iranian cinema. He is a prominent and influential filmmaker in the Iranian New Wave, whose works are built with an emphasis
Gothic Literature and the Horror Genre in Cinema In the mid-eighteenth century, Europe witnessed the emergence of a literary genre that gradually transcended the boundaries between fear, beauty, and mystery,