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Interview with My Father's Shadow Director Akinola Davies Jr.

My Father’s Shadow – Interview with Film Director / Co-writer Akinola Davies Jr.

Akinola Davies Jr. premiered his debut feature film My Father’s Shadow last year at Cannes, making it the first Nigerian film to be a part of the festival’s Official Selection. Since then, the moving father-son drama has gone on to earn rave reviews and even the possibility of a BAFTA win for Davies. But the overwhelming success is rooted in a personal story from 1993-era Nigeria, one penned by his own brother.
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Interview with 'Chaperone' Director Zoe Eisenberg

Chaperone – Interview with Film Writer / Director Zoe Eisenberg

In Chaperone, director Zoe Eisenberg makes it quite easy for her audience to sympathize with her protagonist, Misha. Misha is a struggling 29-year-old who can’t seem to figure out where she fits. At times funny, tragic, and uncomfortable, director Zoe Eisenberg’s debut film asks big questions of her characters and audiences. Eisenberg, the innovative writer-director behind this Hawaii-set drama, sat down with Borrowing Tape to discuss complex characters, May-December romances, and tragedy.
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Interview with All That's Left of You director Cherien Dabis

All That’s Left of You – Interview with Writer / Director Cherien Dabis

Palestinian-American director Cherien Dabis’s family drama, All That’s Left of You, traces three generations of a Palestinian family over a 75-year period. With the film garnering buzz as Jordan’s Oscars submission for Best International Feature, Dabis breaks down her exploration of intergenerational trauma, balancing acting with directing, and the importance of global distribution for Palestinian cinema.
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Interview with 'Other' Director David Moreau

Other – Interview with Filmmaker David Moreau

After delivering the Shudder hit Mads last Halloween, French filmmaker David Moreau is back with another haunting nightmare called OTHER. In this interview, the writer and director breaks down his penchant for atmospheric horror, why he doesn’t bother much about “referencing” other films, and how he went for a “faceless” approach this time, filming only the face of heroine Olga Kurylenko.
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The Cut - Interview with Film Director Sean Ellis

The Cut – Interview with Film Director Sean Ellis

Orlando Bloom plays a washed-out puncher who endures eating disorders and flashbacks from the era of the Irish Troubles as he gives his all to make the required weight category cut. In this interview, director Sean Ellis breaks down his genre-bending film, Bloom's intense transformation, and his own history with combat sports.
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Joaquin Phoenix in Ari Aster's 'Eddington' (2025)

Eddington

The year is 2020. COVID is peaking. America is divided. But in the sleepy Midwestern town of Eddington, a power struggle brews between an ambitious, gun-toting, antivaxxer sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) and an equally ambitious, performatively woke, N95 mask-wearing mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal). 
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Dakota Johnson in Materialists (2025)

Materialists

Celine Song raised expectations after the critical success of her debut feature Past Lives. Her sophomore feature film Materialists is a romantic comedy about a love triangle between a matchmaker, her aspiring actor ex-boyfriend, and a charming millionaire.
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Still from 'Weapons' (2025)

Weapons

When an entire classroom of children (barring one) disappears overnight at 2:17 am, their vodka-guzzling teacher becomes the target of a witch-hunt by anxious, angry parents. What happened at 2:17 am?
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Bring Her Back

While grieving the sudden death of their father, stepsiblings are placed in the care of their foster mother and are exposed to darker truths and manipulative captivity.
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Chicken Town

Juvenile delinquent Jayce (Ethaniel Davy) is released for a crime he didn’t commit, and he inadvertently gets involved in a cannabis-selling scheme with his antisocial senior citizen neighbor Kev (Graham Fellows).
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Vera Drew in The People's Joker (2022)

The People’s Joker

In the tradition of the kinds of parody movies that used to fill theaters like Scary Movie or Austin Powers, director and star Vera Drew lampoons the most popular genre dominating our screens today: the superhero comic.
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