Bangladesh Reaches Venice Milestone with ‍‍`The Difficult Bride‍‍`

Bangladeshi cinema has achieved a historic milestone as writer, director and producer Rubaiyat Hossain's fourth feature film, The Difficult Bride, has been selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) Competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. The selection marks the first time a Bangladeshi feature film has been included in an official competition section at the Venice Film Festival, one of the world's most prestigious cinematic events. The festival's 83rd edition will take place in Venice, Italy, from September 2 to 12, where The Difficult Bride will have its world premiere. Founded in 1932,

Remembering Djibril Diop Mambéty, the Rebel Poet of African Cinema

Today marks the twenty-eighth anniversary of the death of Djibril Diop Mambéty, the Senegalese filmmaker whose formally daring body of work remains central to the history of African cinema. Mambéty died from lung cancer in a Paris hospital on July 23, 1998. He was 53 years old. Born in Colobane, Dakar, in 1945, Mambéty first trained as an actor and worked at Dakar’s Daniel Sorano National Theatre. Although he had theatrical training, he received no formal education in filmmaking and taught himself cinema. His early films, Contras’ City and Badou Boy,

Christopher Nolan’s Movies Ranked: From His Weakest Film to Strongest

Christopher Nolan has built one of modern cinema’s most distinctive bodies of work. His films repeatedly explore fractured timelines, obsession, guilt, identity and the personal cost of ambition. Following the release of The Odyssey, Euronews Culture ranked all 13 of Nolan’s feature films from weakest to strongest. Nolan’s work has generated both intense admiration and recurring criticism. Supporters celebrate his practical spectacle, intricate plotting and technical precision. Critics, however, often point to emotionally distant characters, unnatural dialogue, overwhelming sound design and female roles that receive less development than their male counterparts. Here is

Béla Tarr, The Turin Horse, and the End of the World

Some films imagine the end of the world as an event. Buildings collapse, cities burn, and someone usually arrives to tell us what has gone wrong. Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse does something much more unsettling. It imagines the end as a process. Nothing explodes. No authority appears with an explanation. Instead, the world begins to withdraw from ordinary life. A horse refuses to work. A well runs dry. A lamp will not remain lit. Two people continue with their daily routine because routine is the only thing they

Light, Symmetry, and Obsession in Stanley Kubrick’s Films

Stanley Kubrick would have turned 98 this July 26, yet his visual choices remain strikingly contemporary. The first film I ever studied closely was The Shining, as my photography mentor suggested that I deep-dive into this film back in 2019, essentially to understand composition and the play of light. Kubrick's visual journey began at thirteen, when his father handed him a Graflex camera. By sixteen, he had sold his first photograph to Look magazine: a news vendor appearing grief-stricken, surrounded by headlines announcing President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death. At seventeen, he ' ...

Venice Film Festival Unveils 2026 Official Selection

The Venice International Film Festival has announced the official lineup for its 2026 edition, featuring a diverse mix of acclaimed auteurs, anticipated premieres and star-studded productions. The festival will run from September 2 to 12 on the Lido. Artistic director Alberto Barbera unveiled a competition slate that is noticeably leaner on studio and streaming titles than in recent years, while the selection is overwhelmingly dominated by films directed by men. Among the most anticipated world premieres is Martin McDonagh's black comedy Wild Horse Nine, a CIA drama set in the lead-up to ' ...