Reviews

Chicago Shorts held the physical screening for its June edition yesterday at Facets Theatre in Chicago, presenting a curated selection of officially selected short films before announcing this season’s winners.

In Marjane Satrapi’s imaginative universe, death is never the end of the story. The dead return through memory, image, and language. It is as though storytelling performs the same function

A Look at 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days on the Occasion of Romanian Director Cristian Mungiu Winning the Palme d'Or Again in 2026

From a thematic perspective, the film is grounded in Malick’s ethical stance toward war and fascist ideology, a stance that manifests itself through its unwavering commitment to individual conscience. In

Karim Lakzadeh’s Twice Living and Thrice Dying, which is being presented in the ACID section of the Cannes Film Festival, is a distinctive work within contemporary Iranian cinema—a cinema currently

Twenty years have passed since The Lives of Others was made. Twenty years since that gray winter—a cold season in which voices were not merely voices, but evidence of guilt,

When approaching It Was Just an Accident, directed by Jafar Panahi, if we consciously shift the analysis away from the level of political subject matter and toward the film’s formal

The Yellow of Love and Failure

A Woman Who Learned How to Say No

It Was Just an Accident opens with a scene inside a car. A man whose face is familiar to supporters of the Islamic government