In the tradition of Okja and Hail, Caesar!, writer-producer-director Joanna Hogg has gifted the world with two Tildas (Swinton, that is) in one film. Just shy ...
There are many films that start with a bang and many that climax at the end. There are fewer that wow with a deliberately calibrated, orgiastic halfway mark. T...
Rima Das is one of this century's most remarkable indie-filmmaker stories from India. Essentially a one-woman crew, she released her debut feature Village Rock...
Renowned horror author and filmmaker Clive Barker has oft remarked about his directorial debut, Hellraiser, that he had virtually no idea what he was doing whi...
While Rita Baghdadi's documentary Sirens centers upon the first all-female thrash metal band from the Middle East, it's not really about the band. We follow th...
In 2016, documentary filmmaker Alice Diop (We) felt compelled to attend the trial of Fabienne Kabou, a Senegalese mother accused of infanticide. Pregnant at th...
Life is about handling contradictions. And they all demand that we choose between compromising, conceding, or refusing to back down—whether it's opposite a fam...
Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin shot to international fame when his fourth feature Head-On won the Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlinale. Since then he’s compe...
There's a reason Carlota Pereda films Sara (Laura Galán) urinating through her clothes as an old friend (Irene Ferreiro's Claudia), who's drifted away towards ...
All throughout Amsterdam you can hear the gears clunking and grinding and screeching. Could it be the rust? It’s been seven years since David O. Russell made a...
