‘sadness triangle’, a pointed discussion linked to the Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund and the acclaimed film They Talk, now sits on the radar for awards season. Sarah Polley’s work earns nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, while Östlund adds a nomination for Best Original Screenplay—an arrival that shakes up the slate this awards season as studios push to stop the momentum of major blockbusters.
Ant-Man and the Wasp enter the quantum world
The narrative opens Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The setting dives into the Quantum Realm, drawing inspiration from real ideas in quantum physics. The story follows the superhero duo Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne as they meet bizarre beings and explore a landscape beyond ordinary experience. Their path collides with Kang the Conqueror, the formidable foe driving the Multiverse Saga.
Sarah Polley’s Oscar-nominated They Talk
Polley’s newest feature, nominated for Best Picture and Best Director, They Talk adapts Miriam Toews’s novel. The film brings together a stellar cast—Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand. It grapples with questions of forgiveness, belief, and power structures through the story of Mennonite women negotiating faith after a traumatic assault helps shape their choices.
The triangle of sadness, an acid satire on money
Ruben Östlund’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner, a sharp satire about wealth, vanity, and social status, is in the Oscar conversation for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. Set aboard a yacht, the film introduces a cast of exaggerated figures—from models and influencers to a Russian oligarch echoing Reagan’s era, to a charming British couple amid a backdrop of luxury excess. A lone tech entrepreneur who hands out tokens of friendship plays a pivotal role in exposing the hollow rituals of affluence.
See Ibarguren and Pol in America’s Bride
In this comedy about prejudice and cultural clashes set in Mexico, a cast led by Miren Ibarguren, Ginés García Millán, Pol Monen, Eduardo Casanova, and Pepa Charro explores family dynamics during a wedding. Two brothers travel with a younger girl to attend their father’s event, and the extended family’s warm welcome becomes an unforgettable moment that tests bonds and beliefs.
South Korean movie Project Wolf Hunting wins an award in Sitges
Intrigue, action, and science fiction intersect in a South Korean thriller directed by Kim Hong Sun. The film, honored with the Sitges Special Jury Prize, follows a crew of criminals during a perilous transport on a cargo ship—from Manila to Busan—under the watch of a seasoned Korean police captain and a team of detectives. The tension escalates as loyalties are tested and danger mounts.
Sealed lips from the Gulag to the GDR
Puntal Films presents a drama directed by Bernd Bohlich about Antonia Berger, a woman who returns to the German Democratic Republic after two decades in a Russian gulag. The film traces the moment she learns her partner has reported her to authorities, threatening the fragile chance at normal life and forcing a reckoning with secrets kept for years.
Venus from theater to cinema
Victor Conde adapts a stage work that premiered in Madrid in 2017, following five characters who meet in a cafe and navigate different phases of life through conversation and chance encounters. The ensemble features Antonio Hortelano, Ariana Bruguera, Paula Muñoz, Carlos Serrano-Clark, and Carlos Gorbe as they traverse mood, memory, and meaning across the screenings and streets they inhabit.