Rohan Kanawade’s directorial debut, Cactus Pears ['Sabar Bonda'] is a tender Indian queer drama that follows a city-returned man as he revisits his village after his father’s death and finds an old love along the way.
Palestinian writer and filmmaker Annemarie Jacir has been helming stories of the people of her homeland and its diaspora for decades. But with the historical epic Palestine 36, Jacir offers a glimpse into the past as the land was being divided by the British colonial overlords, paving the way for future occupation.
Creature features aren’t new to Hollywood, even though we’re yet to get a definitive film on the mysterious snow giant called “Yeti”. Writers and directors Gene Gallerano and William Pisciotta are trying to fill that gap with their aptly titled period-adventure-horror The Yeti.
With the Artemis II crew’s historic return to Earth this week making headlines, there is no better time to look at The Astronaut: a space traveler gets existential in Jess Varley's new sci-fi drama. In this interview, the writer and director talks about consulting real-life astronauts, her love for Spielbergian space films, and scouting for an "Ex Machina" house.
In this interview, writer/director Petra Volpe reveals how she set out to undo cliched nurse tropes in medical dramas, how they filmed it all in an abandoned Zurich hospital, and how Late Shift doubles as a “cry to arms” for better care for those who care for us.
John Kelly’s darkly comic short Retirement Plan taps into relatable fears of missing out and facing mortality. Nominated for this year’s Oscar for best animated short, the Irish director breaks down his journey till Oscars, roping in Domhnall Gleeson as the narrator, and revealing his own bucket list.
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.
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.
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.
While glazed over with gratuitous amounts of gore, brutality, and overt sexuality, the 2009 science fiction film Gamer’s surface-level thrills house a time capsule—a message from the past that is even more relevant now than it was over ten years ago when the movie was released.
The tale of a Palestinian family is narrated across a 75-year span, from the Nakba (displacement) under Israeli occupation in 1948 to the first Intifada (rebellion) in the 1980s, to present-day Palestine, in this moving drama that’s Jordan’s submission for the 2026 Oscars.
On the precipice of adulthood, weeks away from his 18th birthday, disillusioned Christy (Danny Power) temporarily moves into his estranged brother's house in Cork after he's kicked out of another foster home. There, he must learn how to create a life for himself and stay out of trouble.
Mild-mannered traffic warden Colin (Harry Melling) finds a new lease on life when he runs into emotionally distant but sexually gifted biker Ray (Alexander Skarsgård).
A young William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and Agnes Hathaway (Jessie Buckley) fall in love and start a family until a personal tragedy drives them apart, compelling Shakespeare to pen his masterpiece, Hamlet.
Ben Richards (Glen Powell), a factory worker with anger issues, struggles to make a living for his family in a dystopian, divided America. A deadly game show called The Running Man might be his only golden ticket.
The long-awaited solo feature directorial debut from Shih-Ching Tsou; best known for being a producer on Academy Award-winning Sean Baker’s films such as Tangerine, The Florida Project, and Red Rocket.
Annemarie Jacir’s sweeping historical epic recounts the 1936-1939 Arab revolt against British control in Palestine just as Jewish immigrants start sailing in, germinating seeds of a partition that haunts the land to this day.
Blue Moon is the latest film by Richard Linklater. Set on March 31, 1943, the opening night of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's incredibly popular musical, Oklahoma!
After her mother is brutally murdered, with her face ripped off, Alice must revisit her childhood home and confront her traumatic adolescence. As some new threats lurk behind her, a gory and grueling quest to survive follows.