Emerging filmmaker Max Walker-Silverman follows up his acclaimed feature film debut A Love Song (2022) with his poignant and life-affirming second film in Rebuilding. Set in the aftermath of a catastrophic wildfire that consumes his 200-acre ranch and all his possessions, Dusty (Josh O’Conner) is forced to relocate with what he has left to a community support camp in a refurbished mobile home. Dusty must confront his relationships with those around him including his ex-wife,

At the end of his tenure Mariano De Santis, an imaginary President of Italy, confronts the moral and political legacy of his career. A meticulous man of law, Mariano must decide whether to finally sign a law that has been a decades-long controversy: the law of euthanasia.      La Grazia (“Grace”) premiered at 2025 Venice Film Festival. It’s Paolo Sorrentino’s 11th feature film and 7th collaboration with actor Tony Servillo who was awarded the Coppa Volpi at Venice for this r

Marianne Faithfull was a singer, songwriter, grammy nominee, actress and a teacher at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Was she a woman of exceptional talents or did she assume the roles naturally afforded someone who dated a Rolling Stone during the height of their fame? One thing for sure is she lived an extraordinary life; and this is no ordinary documentary. Or is it a biopic? An interview? A live performance? It evades labels, shapeshifting between forms as

When you first think of Don Bluth, your mind often goes to the vibrant colours and imaginative stories that defined childhood for many millennials growing up. But most people probably never think about Don Bluth the person. Who exactly was he? What were his thoughts and opinions on the animation industry at the time? And where is he now? Well these very questions are finally answered through the 2025 documentary “Don Bluth: Somewhere Out There”, directed by David LaMattina an

The sun is beating down on the concrete of an unnamed city. Its glaring heat condemns all life to a nocturnal rhythm that sets the scene for Jaqueline Zünd’s contemplative feature debut, Don’t Let The Sun (2025). Its narrative casts a lingering glance at the social cost of the climate crisis and dives into a world where people have withdrawn from their environment and from each other. While words have become sparse, ambient sound is a constant companion that guides us throug

The name of the movie “Gavagai” comes from a well-known thought experiment from philosopher W.V.O. Quine about the inability to translate a certain sentence and word perfectly. A correct point of entry into the newest movie by Ulrich Kohler, which focuses on the fields between languages, cultures, and intentions. In this co-production between Germany and France, Kohler turns a film-within-a-film into a tale of cross-cultural romance and much more.  The plot is set in two diff

Overview of documentary film Landmarks (dir. Lucrecia Martel), featured at DIFF 2026.