Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl explores everything from the tragicomedy of survival to the Black feminist refusals ...

Inside out: this year’s edition was suffused with an uneasy mood, expressed by many of the standout selections, including ...

Ben Rivers’s latest Bogancloch—a continuation of the British filmmaker’s collaboration with a hermit—is notable for its ...

Bootlegger‘s dilemma: critic Abby Sun answers a reader‘s question about the ethics of piracy in a skewed distribution ...

I can’t begin to imagine what it would have been like to be on the ground at Sundance in the year 2025. But the disconnect between many of the movies in the lineup and the fact that the United States ...

At that performance, director Robert Rossen was impressed, and later cast Hackman in a small role in LILITH with Warren Beatty. Three years later, Beatty remembered Hackman and cast him in BONNIE AND ...

Revolutionary dream: Curators Bunga Siagian and Yuki Aditya and critics Cici Peng and Inney Prakash join to discuss a special program at this year’s IFFR devoted to the historic Afro-Asian Film ...

I didn’t want to feel like the woman director. I wanted to feel like one of many women directors. If Silver’s films don’t fit neatly into a broader movement or ethos, it may be because their ...

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