Archive - REFRACTIONS

Trades Digest: 28 September to 4 October 2026

Paramount-Warner becomes Skydance, exhibitors pour billions back into cinemas, streamers and distributors redraw their relationships with AI and…

2 hrs ago • REFRACTIONS

How Histories Converge in Red Stars Upon the Field (2025)

How many of us truly know our own family history, let alone our national one?

Oct 3 • REFRACTIONS

Criticism Digest: 26 September-2 October 2026

The Violinist prompts a reconsideration of the Singapore Story; New York Film Festival opens with monsters, metafiction and Elizabeth Holmes; and a week…

Oct 2 • REFRACTIONS

Forgotten Island (2026) is One of the Most Original and Exciting Animated Features Of Late, All Southeast Asians Must Watch

When Disney’s Raya and the Lost Dragon (2021) first released, there was much backlash to the monolithic depictions of Southeast Asia.

Oct 1 • REFRACTIONS and Daryl Cheong

German Film Festival: Fatherland (2026) is Paweł Pawlikowski’s Most Politically Urgent Film

Oct 1 • REFRACTIONS and Daryl Cheong

September 2026

German Film Festival: The Impossible Quest for Belonging in Visar Morina’s Exile (2020)

Exile (2020), directed by Visar Morina, is a layered and sophisticated character study that dissects the xenophobic gaze cast upon the immigrants.

Sep 30 • REFRACTIONS

German Film Festival: The Education of Jane Cumming (2026) Dares to Reimagine Truths

“So the action of the intelligence is directed to some end.

Sep 29 • REFRACTIONS and Daryl Cheong

Trades Digest: 21 to 27 September 2026

Paramount and Warner Bros.

Sep 28 • REFRACTIONS

Minikino Film Week: The Price of Our Desires

Featuring: Dying of the Young Deer, Praying Mantis, Disturbia, At February’s End & Honey, My Love, So Sweet

Sep 26 • REFRACTIONS

Criticism Digest: 19-25 September 2026

Sep 25 • REFRACTIONS

Minikino Film Week: Grief as Proof and Persistence of Love

The First Bite, Baadarane, Our Birthdays, Paper Houses and Horses & Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites

Sep 24 • REFRACTIONS

Trades Digest: 14 to 20 September 2026

TIFF’s first official market closes with encouraging sales and growing pains, governments compete harder for production, independent producers confront…

Sep 21 • REFRACTIONS

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