DIFF 2025: Postcards from Happy Endings in Neo Sora and Radu Jude’s new films

Happyend Director: Neo Sora Starring: Kurihara Hayato, Hidaka Yukito, Ayumu Nakajima, Makiko Watanabe, Shirō Sano. Running Time: 113 minutes The senior prank, one of the great fascinations of American cinema. It feels rare to see these burning displays of late adolescence in other realms of global cinema, but Neo Sora’s (Ryuichi Sakamoto:Opus) debut retools those well worn senioritis japes for…

The Killing of Several Dozen Sacred Sheep: Farmland Fury in ‘Bring Them Down’

Director: Christopher Andrews Starring: Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Nora-Jane Noone, Paul Ready, Aaron Heffernan, Colm Meaney Running Time: 106 minutes Watching the exports of the European arthouse over the last few years, one of the big strains of film I’ve seen pop up has been the rural paranoid thriller. These are dour films shot in…