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A commonality among most American movies about Middle Eastern wars is their strict focus on U.S. soldiers — see last year’s startlingly immersive Warfare — from the hell of active combat to years of PTSD-related psychological fallout, generally reducing the enemy to faceless “others” with neither names nor humanity. First-time feature director Reed Van Dyk

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Marco Perego, a conceptual artist whose work has been displayed around the world, grew up on world cinema and tends to watch a movie every day. Yet the Italian native has operated mostly outside filmmaking circles — until now. Coming off of his feature directorial debut from 2023,The Absence of Eden— which starred his wife,

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I’ve been back to Cannes something like 15 times. I was there with Valérie Donzelli’s film [Marguerite & Julien in 2015] in Competition and with the closing film [2012’s Thérèse] from Claude Miller. I’ve had films in Critics’ Week and Un Certain Regard. I was President of the Jury that awarded the Camera d’Or [to

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Exactly one year after a group of up-and-coming Danish directors launched the Dogma 25 cinema movement in Cannes, the first Dogma 25 film, Mr. Nawashi from Isabella Eklöf, has begun filming. The love story follows Katarina (newcomer Tanya Holm Andersen), an “ambitious and talented singer with an appetite for life but little self-discipline” who meets

Buffalo Bills running back and kick returner Ray Davis’ journey in the foster care system is barreling forward as a feature film. Crossroad Productions is in development on the inspirational drama movie Breakaway Ray, which has Gary Fleder (Runaway Jury, The Express, Reacher) set to direct from a script by Point Break and Varsity Blues