Shaurya Thapa

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Still from BAFTA-winning film My Father's Shadow (2025).

My Father’s Shadow

BAFTA winning drama film is set in 1993 Nigeria during a presidential election, one that can resurrect democracy after years of military dictatorship. Amid such political turbulence, we follow a kind-hearted but absent father, determined to make it to Lagos with his two sons.
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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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No Other Choice

Korean maestro Park Chan-wook’s latest dark comedy follows the hapless misadventures of freshly unemployed paper industry worker desperate to regain his social status and to provide for his crumbling family, so he plans to hunt for his next job by literally hunting down all potential competitors.
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Sill from The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)

The Voice of Hind Rajab

Kaouther Ben Hania’s fact-based drama follows volunteers at the Palestinian Red Crescent responding to a call by five-year-old Hind Rajab, who is stuck in a car during the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
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Twinless

This dark comedy stars Dylan O’Brien on double duty as gullible everyman Roman and his swanky, successful gay twin Rocky. But when Rocky dies in a freak accident, Roman rewires his social life with Dennis, a new acquaintance who is a little too obsessed with twins.
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All That’s Left of You

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.
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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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Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård in Pillion (2025)

Pillion

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).
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Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in a still for Hamnet (2025)

Hamnet

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.
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Still from Palestine 36 (2025)

Palestine 36

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.
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