ciniq — festival films

ciniq is a film engine that works for one person: you. No crowd scores. No critic aggregates. No recommendations from what other people watched. The canon is juried — over 10,000 films from Cannes, Venice, Berlin, the Academy, BAFTA, Locarno, Sundance, India's National Film Awards and two dozen more — because juries curate and crowds average. WHAT IT DOES Browse the canon. Every prize, every year, every winner and the full competition slate beside them. Jury citations where they exist, in the jury's own words. Cross-link to a director and see everything of theirs the canon holds. Tell it what you loved. Rate a film across ten dimensions — storytelling, direction, cinematography, theme, acting, music, ending, social canvas, creativity, memorable impact — with the remote, or scan a code and rate it on your phone. Nothing is typed on the TV that doesn't need to be. Get a pick for tonight. The engine reads your ratings and proposes films from the canon, and it shows its working: every recommendation carries the reason it was chosen. "Same director as a film you gave a 9 for direction." "Won the Golden Lion." "Awarded Korean-language film." A pick you disagree with is arguable rather than mysterious. See where it's playing. ciniq checks streaming availability in your region and launches the provider's app straight to the film where the provider allows it. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No account. No sign-in. No profile. No analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no crash reporting, no third-party SDKs that collect anything. Your ratings live in a database on your television and are never sent anywhere. Not to us, not to anyone. There is no ciniq server holding your taste, because there is no ciniq server. The only network request the app makes is a film title and a country code to a streaming availability service, carrying nothing that identifies you. ONE PURCHASE Buy it once. Every update after that is free. No subscription, no in-app purchases, nothing to cancel. ALSO ON IPHONE, IPAD AND APPLE TV ciniq runs on Apple devices too, with the same canon and the same engine. Your ratings move between them with a file you control — no cloud account in the middle. Privacy policy: https://ciniq.app/privacy-android/ Made by Labham LLC.