I watched Inferior Shadows during the Doc.Berlin Documentary Film Festival. When the credits stopped rolling, no one moved. No applause, no murmurs—just a room full of people looking at each other, quietly aware that we had witnessed something rare. The film is beautifully shot, but brutally so; tender in its attention, devastating in what it reveals. Long after the screening, its images stayed with me. It felt necessary to speak with the filmmaker Ramin Khalighi —not to de

Over the past few days, the Doc.Berlin once again hosted its annual event at the historic Babylon cinema in Berlin. The festival was happy to welcome a number of artists: Nazanin Hafez, Zora Arose Ritz, Evgenia Chetvertkova, Kayu Yeung, Matias Dumas, Westley Hennigh-Palermo, Piotr Goldstein and many more. Kris De Meester, festival director, looks back: “As the festival director of Doc.Berlin , I tend to experience each edition in a very inward way. Documentaries, for me, are

Film industry leaders attended Cinematory’s annual event, Producer’s Night, where they were treated to the best films from 25+ partner film festivals   LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, December 9, 2025 - On December 5th 2025, Maarten Cornelis hosted the fifth edition of the Producer’s Night at The Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. An excited crowd of film industry leaders and film lovers attended the event where they were treated to the best films of 2025 cherrypicked from

Super Shorts Los Angeles Film Festival is happy to announce another successful edition. Out of over a thousand submissions, an eclectic selection of 37 independent short films were selected to be showcased during the screenings at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute and through online streaming. Super Shorts Los Angeles Film Festival is pleased to share with you today the winners of this year's edition: Best Narrative Film Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting (United States)

Over the past few days, the Super Shorts London Film Festival once again hosted its annual event at the lovely BFI Stephen Street. Out of almost two thousand local and international submissions, an eclectic batch of 38 short films were selected to be showcased at the 19th edition. A big thanks to all our guests for coming out to enjoy these independent film gems! Festival curator Kris De Meester: "With up to ten shorts a night, each screening of this 19th edition of Super Sho

The Bruges International Film Festival would like to thank all their guests for coming out to enjoy a selection of new independent cinema from around the globe at the 5th edition of its festival, which concluded yesterday. This year, the festival was privileged to receive over a thousand entries, of which 28 made it to the final official selection. The festival extends its heartfelt gratitude to the City of Bruges for its support, as well as to the teams at Biekorf and the Br

The 2025 Manhattan Independent Film Festival concluded with a bold and brilliantly diverse program that showcased the full spectrum of contemporary independent cinema. Over three days, audiences were invited into a rich tapestry of perspectives—from the sensorial and meditative to the deeply personal, politically charged, and emotionally raw. This year’s Official Selection brought together resurrected archival experiments, intimate portraits of grief and resilience, urgent so

The Lee Strasberg Film Festival has officially concluded its 2025 edition in West Hollywood, marking the 9th inspiring year of films, panels, and conversations dedicated to the craft of acting and the art of cinematic storytelling.   Hosted at the historic Marilyn Monroe Theatre, this year’s festival brought together filmmakers, actors, and Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute  alumni from around the world for three days of screenings, Q&As, and industry discussions that ce

The Auteur Cinema Archive proudly welcomes Majnuni (2019), the debut feature by Kouros Alaghband , an Iranian-American filmmaker whose haunting visual style was forged under the mentorship of Béla Tarr at his Sarajevo-based film school, Film.Factory. The film—winner of Best Narrative Feature Film at the Brussels Independent Film Festival and an official selection at Slamdance 2020 —is a hypnotic descent into obsession and fractured identity, set against the backdrop of a