'Butterfly Jam' Is the Quiet, Aching Cannes Debut That Belongs to Its Young Star.

As earthly circles of hell go, modern-day Newark is in an altogether different, gentler category from post-WWII Leningrad. Still, in Kantemir Balagov’s long-awaited third feature “Butterfly Jam,” ...

There has been at least one moment in all our lives when a lingering thought creeps in: “What if I had done things differently?” It usually arrives after something doesn’t go the way we planned, ...

Butterfly, the powerful debut feature from NYC-based director Dante Hillmedo, has been awarded Best Feature Film at the 2025 Big Apple Film Festival, an impressive breakthrough for a first-time ...

Cannes: Kantemir Balagov's shambling but arrestingly strange English-language debut refuses to conform to the expectations of its genre.