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Furies (2026): When Survival Becomes a Heist

Posted on 11 Days Ago by Hugo Pagan Soto

In 2019, Lebanon’s financial crisis reached its breaking point. Protests across the country intensified, banks closed their doors, and soon began imposing restrictions on depositors’ withdrawals and transfers. Three years later, the collapse was total: money was frozen in bank accounts, people could no longer access their savings, and many citizens took desperate measures to get their money back. It is precisely in that bleak year of 2022 that Furies, directed by Rami Kodeih, is a work of fiction that comes painfully close to reality.

Nosotros (2026): The Weight of Prejudice

Posted on 14 Days Ago by Hugo Pagan Soto

In his feature-film debut, director Joaquín Ruano explores the complexities of social prejudice and the way it permeates even the simplest aspects of everyday life. Nosotros speaks of the loneliness of migration, corrosive masculinity, and intolerance. The journey from the countryside to the city, one of humanity’s oldest and most inherent journeys, becomes the canvas upon which Ruano constructs his story. Migration is a physical journey, but it also becomes an emotional odyssey.

Angh (2026) – An Echo of a Lost World

Posted on 19 Days Ago by Hugo Pagan Soto

“I sense a looming end, like our relevance is fading with every passing moment.”

Anghba stalks his prey, controls his breathing, his arrow ready to pierce an unsuspecting wild boar. The sound of a boat cutting through the river interrupts the ritual. The arrow never flies, and the boar disappears into the jungle. An absolute premonition in this opening sequence of Angh. The first feature film by Theja Rio expands upon his 2021 short film of the same name. The director tells a story about time as an antagonist and about a slow, almost imperceptible extinction.

The Age of Goodbyes (2026) – A Cinematic Labyrinth of Memory

Posted on 22 Days Ago by Hugo Pagan Soto

An exploration of time, memory, the past, and the present is what Edmund Yeo offers in The Age of Goodbyes. The screenplay, written by Yeo himself, is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Malaysian writer Li Zi Shu. The film presents us with several timelines unfolding in parallel. From the central story, we move into narratives that intertwine with one another. The chronology of events arrives like the memories of the characters, seemingly blurring the boundaries between past and present, between the real and the mystical.

I Play Rocky (2026) – The Making of a Hollywood Legend

Posted on 24 Days Ago by Hugo Pagan Soto

What I Play Rocky does is not something new in cinema. As recently as last year, Richard Linklater imagined the birth of one of the most important films in the history of cinema in his Nouvelle Vague (2025). Brilliantly, we witnessed the dramatization of Jean-Luc Godard and his process of making À bout de souffle (1960). If we dig through the archives, we will find many films that tell the story of how another movie was made, and if we expand our search to documentaries, there are countless more. Director Peter Farrelly’s latest venture takes on one of the most iconic films in the history of the seventh art: Rocky.