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Party USA (2026): Absurdity and Control at the Edge of Coherence | Atlanta Film Festival

★★★☆☆ Party USA announces itself quickly—and with unusual confidence. Within its opening moments, the film establishes a tone that is […]

★★☆☆☆ Harry Aspinwall’s The House Was Not Hungry Then sets out to dismantle horror as we know it. Stripping away

Eiman Alkhalifa’s No Land In Sight wastes no time—but more importantly, it refuses to waste a single moment. In a

Yanis Koussim’s Roqia sets out to join the lineage of possession horror—a subgenre defined by control, escalation, and the slow

Taratoa Stappard’s Marama is a film defined by restraint—an austere, gothic horror that understands the power of what it withholds.

In recent years, cinema surrounding the Gaza Strip has been defined by immediacy—films shaped by conflict, urgency, and historical framing.

Piotr Domalewski’s The Alter Boys is a film about faith—but more precisely, it is about the fracture between faith as

The Frog and the Water isn’t about drowning—it’s about never realizing you’re underwater to begin with. “This is a film

Before The Matrix rewired the grammar of blockbuster cinema, Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski debuted with something far more intimate—and,

Among the titles playing at Filmfest DC 2026, Ky Nam Inn emerges as a quiet standout—one of the festival’s most