Mastodawn

Our final review from this year's #Raindance Film Festival is of an offbeat documentary from Canadian filmmaker Denis Côté: https://www.hollandfocus.co.uk/2026/06/raindance-2026-paul.html

Raindance 2026: Paul

The idiosyncratic Canadian filmmaker Denis Côté has carved out a singular place in contemporary cinema, building films that feel at once aus...

Holland Focus Jun 20

Our #Raindance coverage continues with a review of an intriguing horror, plus we take a look at a Dutch-language short that's playing at the festival: https://www.hollandfocus.co.uk/2026/06/raindance-2026-modem-gedoetjes.html

Raindance 2026: Modem / Gedoetjes

Tim James Brown's film Modem —which received its world premiere on Thursday at the Raindance Film Festival and will have an encore screenin...

Holland Focus Jun 20

Today's review from the #Raindance Film Festival is of a film centring on the Vietnamese diaspora in Czechia: https://www.hollandfocus.co.uk/2026/06/raindance-2026-summer-school-2001.html

Raindance 2026: Summer School, 2001

Vietnamese traders have become an important part of everyday commerce in Czechia. Their businesses, ranging from small neighbourhood shops ...

Holland Focus Jun 18

Our coverage of this year's #Raindance continues with a review of an absorbing screenlife horror, plus a look at one of the many short films on offer at the festival: https://www.hollandfocus.co.uk/2026/06/raindance-2026-serena-stairs.html

Raindance 2026: Serena / Stairs

Screenlife films, such as Unfriended and its sequel, take the digital clutter of modern life—message bubbles, tab‑hopping, notification ping...

Holland Focus Jun 18

Today at the #Raindance Film Festival, we review a documentary centring on Kyrgyz singer Zere: https://www.hollandfocus.co.uk/2026/06/raindance-2026-free-daughter-of-free.html

Raindance 2026: A Free Daughter of Free Kyrgyzstan

It has been 35 years since Kyrgyzstan declared its independence from the USSR, but while women's rights in the landlocked central Asian nati...

Variety [Unofficial]Jun 17

Raindance Founder Elliot Grove Praises ‘Exceptional’ Connor Storrie, Says ‘Some of the Most Exciting Filmmakers Working Today’ Come From Horror

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://variety.com/2026/film/global/raindance-founder-elliot-grove-connor-storrie-horror-1236783608/

Variety Jun 17

Raindance Founder Elliot Grove Praises ‘Exceptional’ Connor Storrie, Says ‘Some of the Most Exciting Filmmakers Working Today’ Come From Horror
#Variety #Global #MarketsFestivals #News #ElliotGrove #Raindance #RaindanceFilmFestival

https://variety.com/2026/film/global/raindance-founder-elliot-grove-connor-storrie-horror-1236783608/

Raindance Founder on Fear of 'Algorhithmic Sameness,' Rise of Horror

Raindance Film Festival founder Elliot Grove champions horror filmmakers as some of the 'most dynamic' in the industry, fears 'algorithmic sameness.'

Variety

Holland Focus Jun 17

The #Raindance Film Festival begins today, and to kick off our coverage from this year's edition we have a review of a fun vampire tale: https://www.hollandfocus.co.uk/2026/06/raindance-2026-life-for-beginners.html

Raindance 2026: Life for Beginners

Polish vampire legends occupy a wonderfully eerie corner of Slavic folklore, where the boundary between the living and the dead is porous an...

The Hollywood Reporter May 18

Connor Storrie in ‘April X,’ Films by Gorillaz, Kit Harington and EP Jane Fonda Set for Raindance
#MovieNews #Movies #ConnorStorrie #Gorillaz #International #KitHarington #Raindance #Raindancefilmfestival #Unitedkingdom

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/connor-storrie-gorillaz-kit-harington-films-raindance-2026-1236597733/

Connor Storrie in ‘April X,’ Films by Gorillaz, Kit Harington and EP Jane Fonda Set for Raindance

The documentary 'Eddie Cochran: Don't Forget Me' will close out the 34th edition of the London film festival, which will also screen the likes of 'Pinocchio Unstrung' with Robert Eglund.

The Hollywood Reporter