Article by: Mirko Serra
Translated by: Carlotta Anna Antonacci
With Erupcja, a bohemian portrait of Warsaw in four-thirds format, Pete Ohs returns to an authorial register after exploring various genres.
Continua la lettura di “ERUPCJA” BY PETE OHS (ENG)Article by Vittorio Barbieri
Translation by Giulia Zanotto
In November 1945, an ambitious psychiatrist (Rami Malek) is in charge of drawing up the psychological profiles of the Nazi leaders who are detained by the Allies, among whom the disturbing Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe) is included. While trying to understand the prisoners’ motives and defense strategies, Judge Robert Jackson (Michael Shannon) fights to establish an international court that will guarantee impartial justice even for the perpetrators of World War II.
Continua la lettura di “NUREMBERG” BY JAMES VANDERBILT (ENG)Article by Elena Sartore
Translation by Virginia Milazzo
An old man is sitting in his studio, reading a periodical: news from the Middle East. He comments on them, visibly in distress, then surrenders himself to something merrier: music. He’s Emilio Jona, 98 years old, a member of the Italian folk band “Cantacronache”, to whom Stefano Di Polito dedicated his documentary Nel blu dipinti di rosso, presented to the 43rd edition of the Torino Film Festival.
Continua la lettura di “NEL BLU DIPINTI DI ROSSO” BY STEFANO DI POLITO (ENG)Article by Mirko Serra
Translation by Maria Iacovone
In New Mexico’s most remote areas, marked by drought and arson, the last cowboys survive, shadows of a bygone era who move in silence through isolation and solitude. With Land With No Rider, Tamar Lando carries out an anthropological analysis of a myth’s slow sunset: there’s no sign of the manly hero on horseback; instead, there are lonely men, tired and weak, remains of an America that decided to forget its past. Under their hats, they still wear flannel shirts and old leather boots and, between cigarettes and country songs, the three protagonists reveal the dark reality concealed behind the everyday life of the Southwest, where time stands still, in contrast with an ever-changing country.
Continua la lettura di “LAND WITH NO RIDER” BY TAMAR LANDO (ENG)Article by Francesca Strangis
Translated by Giorgia Cattaneo
On a farm in northern Germany, four generations across four different eras — the 1910s, the 1940s, the 1980s and the 2000s — take turns inhabiting the same space over the course of a century. They appear separated by time, yet they are linked by the same thoughts, fears and desires. What happens in the past resonates in the present, and unresolved traumas return with force in the generations that follow.
Continua la lettura di “SOUND OF FALLING” BY MASCHA SCHILINSKI (ENG)Article by Elena Sartore
Translation by Giacomo Patterlini
What if one day the sun won’t rise again? This absurd hypothesis becomes reality in Levers, the second feature film by Canadian director Rhayne Vermette.
Article by Francesca Strangis
Translation by Patrick Zaffalon
Death is looming over a small Slovenian village, incarnating in the mysterious figure of a man covered in flowers and colorful ribbons. It will fall to a young girl to deal with him. Unable to understand the inevitability of fate, she joins a choir in the attempt to keep her grandmother alive, believing that a song heard coming from afar once saved her grandmother when she was at death’s door.
Continua la lettura di “IDA WHO SANG SO BADLY EVEN THE DEAD ROSE UP AND JOINED HER IN A SONG” BY ESTER IVAKIČ (ENG)
Article by Andrea Dosio
Translation by Alice Ivaldi Lessona
No Woman’s Land is a photo feature shot in Afghanistan by Kiana Hayeri for the World Press Photo 2025. It is a testament to the resistance and dignity of Afghan women, which has a lot in common with Cinema Jazireh, Gözde Kural’s second feature film presented in competition at the TFF.
Continua la lettura di “CINEMA JAZIREH” BY GÖZDE KURAL (ENG)Article by Marilina Rita Monzo
Translation by Francesca Corino
Everything starts with a deed both creepy and moving: Eva kidnaps children, she is convinced that she must save them from a threat, visible only to her. The topic of child protection, already touched upon by the director Emanuela Rossi in Buio (2019), assumes in this film a key role. Eva’s impulse does not come from violence but follows a primordial instinct. Her mission seems to stem from a grief that can be read in her actions, a grief born from a traumatic event that changed her: it is a deep crack that swallowed her, like a wound that cannot be healed.
Continua la lettura di “EVA” BY EMANUELA ROSSI (ENG)Article by Vittorio Barbieri
Translation by Giulia Zanotto
The life of Dane (Ferdinand Mbaïssané), a driver for an NGO in N’Djamena, proceeds normally until a tragic incident exposes him to the burden of diya: the bloody price a family wants him to pay for running over their son. From this moment on, the movie turns into an introspective journey into which responsibility, guilt and redemption intertwine, dragging the audience into a syncopated thriller.
Continua la lettura di “DIYA” BY ACHILLE RONAIMOU (ENG)Article by Dina Aghaei
Translation by Viola Suria
With Mo Papa, her second fiction feature film after Mo Mamma (2023), Estonian director Eeva Mägi returns to explore the most fragile part of human relationships, this time choosing the bond between father and son. The film speaks with intensity and clarity: the story of a man who longs for an ordinary life and strives to act rightly, yet remains trapped by his past and unresolved traumas. Haunted by a city that condemned him and a stolen childhood, he is slowly driven toward self-destruction.
Continua la lettura di “MO PAPA” BY EEVA MÄGI (ENG)Article by Luca Delpiano
Translation by Virginia Milazzo
Presented to the 43rd Torino Film Festival’s documentaries competition, About a Hero ponders over the concept of representation itself during the era of generative technologies. A true-crime style mockumentary – guided by a fake AI generated Werner Herzog – intertwines the figure of the great German director with a sequence of real interviews: artists, scientists and philosophers who discuss the increasingly uncertain boundary between man and machine.
Continua la lettura di “ABOUT A HERO” BY PIOTR WINIEWICZ (ENG)Article by Carlotta Profico
Translated by Giorgia Cattaneo
After decades in the industry, a renowned music producer fights to preserve his record label, Stackin’ Hits Records, as it faces a looming takeover by a global corporation. His efforts are suddenly disrupted when, from his penthouse overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge, he learns that his teenage son has been kidnapped.
Continua la lettura di “HIGHEST 2 LOWEST” BY SPIKE LEE (ENG)Article by Marta Mastrocinque
Translation by Maria Iacovone
Dolph: Unbreakable tells the life and career of Dolph Lundgren, starting from his most vulnerable moment: his illness. Andrew Holmes’ documentary opens and closes there, in the moment the actor – action cinema icon – stops being just a “tough guy” and becomes a man fighting in silence, still working, exercising and living.
Continua la lettura di “DOLPH: UNBREAKABLE” BY ANDREW HOLMES (ENG)
