A world outside with no interest in the human ego: Reflections on Patrik Syversen’s Demring
TIFF 2026: «The way Demring plays with Chekhov’s gun and foreshadowing in order to destabilise horror conventions is quite exciting.»
TIFF 2026: Films that use AI and public debate about our cinematic and cultural future
TIFF 2026: The Arctic University of Norway presents two films that use and challenge AI to spark public debate about our cinematic amd cultural future.
Fucktoys‘ offbeat charm aims to lift the curse of our days. Give it a try at TIFF 2026!
TIFF 2026: Toys-R-Us! All of us! That’s just good business. But fear not! Help is at hand: Annapurna Sriram’s Fucktoys cuts to the black, sex-industry heart of capitalism, lays it bare & turns it upside down.
Between Judgment and Emotion: Movies on War 2025
The Movies on War festival offers a landscape of reflection – on journalism, displacement, memory, and the fragile borders between nations and the individuals who inhabit them.
Mosaic of moments: Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value
A truly in-depth exploration of a film packed with characters, time planes, strands back into history, complex flashbacks, and a vast number of contrasts, intertwinings, echoes and motifs – plus a house with eyes and a corridor from life to death.
Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank: Realism and Metaphor
Fish Tank (2009), British director Andrea Arnold’s second feature, is a brutally tender exploration of adolescence and isolation, where realism and metaphor mirror the struggle between hope and disillusionment.
Nina Knag’s road to hell on a fine, strapping pavement of good intentions: Se meg
KVIFF 2025: Norwegians! They try to be nice but really they’re dark to the core – just how the Czechs like them!
Good films come in all shapes and sizes: Karlovy Vary 2025
The tight, almost clinically dark vision of Se meg, the reflective subtlety of The Visitor, the anarchic odysseys of About a Hero and Fucktoys. The highlights of yet another Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the 59th, are many.
Oliver Laxe’s Sirât: The Fine Line Between Beauty and Terror
Cannes 2025: Oliver Laxe’s new film Sirât opens in Dionysian madness, sweaty bodies, and the sound of acid bass blaring through the dry vastness of the Moroccan desert. Anarchic, psychedelic, and uncompromising, Laxe moves through the underground like second nature.
Jafar Panahi’s Golden Palm winner It Was Just an Accident is a profoundly necessary humanist work
TIFF 2026: Jafar Panahi’s Golden Palm winner It Was Just An Accident is a monument to the human heart’s ability for grace in the face of brutality.
David Lynch: My Deformed Twin Brother
When David Lynch passed away on January 15, 2025, I felt as if I had lost a deformed twin brother whom I admired greatly but also feared.
A decaying industrial landscape: Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert
Do you suffer from an overarching inexplicable modern malaise? No, Michelangelo Antonioni does not offer a solution, but he definitely recognizes your problem!
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End may be anti-musical and anti-world but at least it’s pro-planet
«It’s when the music stops that the excuses, the rationalisations and obfuscations, rise like scum to the surface.»