Bunny (Mo Stark, also co-writer), the titular lead of the dramedy Bunny, which premiered at SXSW 2025, is the sort of guy you’d want for a neighbor.
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Despite the occasional lapse in focus, Spreadsheet Champions offers a fascinating look at an under-discussed subculture.
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It’s that time of year again: the Hyperreal Film Journal crew is hitting the town for the 2025 SXSW Film Festival.
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As part of our coverage of Animation First Festival 2025, which celebrates Francophone film, we took a look at the second of their two short film programs.
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HFC sat down with Momoko Seto at Animation First Festival ‘25 to discuss her debut Dandelion’s Odyssey, her unique approach to filmmaking, and the beauty of rot.
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At Sundance 2025, Sorry, Baby is just the kind of independent debut you hope to uncover.
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Brit Chainey’s Rabbit Trap, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, tries to capitalize on the wild and weird beauty of Wales to create a folk horror story with a strong emotional tenor. But clever visual tricks and an evocative setting can’t save Rabbit Trap from its own incoherent plot.
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In her directorial debut Seeds, which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary, Brittany Shyne offers an intimate look at the fate of Black farmers in the American South. Shooting in black-and-white with a single-minded focus on her subjects, Shyne creates what feels like an elegy for a way of living on the brink of dying out.
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Train Dreams breathes life into ordinary moments that make up the meaning of one’s life. It’s a welcome reminder during these all too chaotic times, that the journey is not marked by the memories we often think it will be.
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Touch Me is for the weirdos who want to be shocked and confronted with a deliciously campy, sensory overload fever dream that happens to include a few hentai scenes. Oh, and it’s a very horny movie.
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In her directorial debut Oh, Hi!—which premiered this year at Sundance Film Festival—Sophie Brooks takes the decline of modern dating and mixes it up in a frothy rom-com.
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In her new film Sugar Babies, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, Rachel Fleit charts the trajectory of a TikTok sugar baby influencer.
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Next week, two Hyperreal Film Journal writers will pack their parkas and snow boots and jet off to Park City, Utah, for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Our editor-in-chief Alix Mammina and staff writer Andy Volk share their top picks to catch, whether you’re braving the cold in-person or checking in for online screenings.
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BORDERS|NO BORDERS is the short film competition hosted by Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2024.
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As part of our coverage of Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2024, Hyperreal Film Journal viewed a work-in-progress screening of Connor Sen Warnick’s feature debut, Characters Disappearing.
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We are joined today by the director of Tendaberry, a year-spanning, character-driven epic that chronicles the life of a young woman navigating living in New York after her boyfriend returns to Ukraine to be with his ailing father.
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig entwines the real threats of a brutal theocracy with the fictional story of one family’s struggle under its absolutist rule.
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We sat down with Norita producers Sarah Schoellkopf and Melissa Daniels to discuss their connection to Nora Cortiñas and the feminist message at the heart of the film.
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From the outset, Get Away perpetually winks at the audience. The comedy comes from a family’s obliviousness to numerous foreboding signifiers of doom, though Frost’s script goes back to that well so much it starts to run dry by the second act.
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Elizabeth Sankey weaves an intricate tale of female persecution and its relation to postpartum depression, soaked with the tears of her own harrowing experience in a psychiatric hospital after her own breakdown. The documentary works as an expose of her institutionalization intercut with iconic witches throughout film and television history and the confessions of other suffering mothers.
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