“Film noir” is usually used as an umbrella term to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. Noir is described more as a style of filmmaking than a genre. Noir is like flora growing out of the wreckage of a fire—a sentiment caused by destabilizing societal conflicts. For the 40s, that was the post-war sentiment, which brought with it a new sense of fatalism, cynicism, and disillusionment within society, thus giving genre pictures like the gangster genre,…

Våren er endelig her. Det betyr at noe av vinterens høydepunkter skal ryddes vekk til fordel for nye sesongnyheter. Denne uken er det siste mulighet til å se disse filmene på Vega: 

I've come to understand that [my movies] are quite different from others...I understand that I have an odd way of putting stories together.

​"Flow," directed by Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis, is a remarkable animated feature that took five and a half years to create using Blender, a free and open-source 3D software. The film's journey began in 2019, with Zilbalodis dedicating the first year to writing the script, mastering Blender, and seeking funding under his Dream Well Studio. ​

See David Howard Thornton transform from the Art the Clown to the tiny terror of New York in this horror that’ll make you shiver the next time you hear a squeak in the night. A group of New Yorkers are on a late-night ferry ride that turns deadly when a mischievous mouse begins a rampage, targeting unsuspecting passengers. The unlikely crew must band together to thwart the murderous menace before their relaxing commute turns into a nightmare. Starring David Howard…

Stockfish Film Festival & Industry Days er kvikmynda- og bransahátíð fagfólks í kvikmyndageiranum og er haldin í Bíó Paradís í samvinnu við öll fagfélög í kvikmyndagreinum á Íslandi.

STUDIO GHIBLI finally returns to the PCC! We’re giving you a triple offering of Miyazaki classics - SPIRITED AWAY, MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO & THE BOY AND THE HERON!

Locarno triumphs at the 2025 Swiss Film Awards! Last Friday March 21, Queens (Reinas) by Klaudia Reynicke, winner of the Prix du Public UBS at Locarno77, won the Best Feature Film at the Quartz Awards (Schweizer Filmpreis), the top honor for filmmaking in Switzerland. This major win affirms the film's continuing significance for audiences around the world – especially in Peru and in Switzerland, Reynicke's two home countries – and shows that Locarno continues to be the place where Swiss film flourishes.

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KINO welcomes you to the Dutch première of the documentary Love, Deutschmarks and Death (2022) (Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm) that tells the rich history of Turkish guest workers and their musical culture in Germany, exclusively in KINO. A Turkish evening wouldn’t be complete without live music and dancing, so we’ve invited the band Grup Levent to perform after the screening, just as they would at a wedding. Get your tickets here!

Adolescence, la nouvelle mini-série évènement de Netflix est disponible dès maintenant, en partenariat avec France Inter.⁠

This week on Saturday Cinema, beware the Ides of March! Guest host Ward Jacobson shares a Shakespeare-themed lineup with music from Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Shakespeare in Love, and more. Listen now!