With only two feature films, German director Helena Wittmann has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in international cinema. Her 2017 de...
Friends meet at a restaurant for a birthday dinner in the opening scenes of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's Passion. Everyone loves the wrong person. Tomoya (Ryuta Okamoto...
Some context might help. Between 1988 and 1997 the Baltimore-based filmmaker Rob Tregenza directed three features that amassed a small, enviable group of admir...
With his feature debut Cam, Daniel Goldhaber considered the state of online sex work within an entertaining horror film that follows a classic doubling narrati...
Showing Up contains many of the hallmarks of a classic Kelly Reichardt picture: a Pacific Northwest setting, a Jonathan Raymond co-writing credit, Christopher ...
It's been a rocky year for Ulrich Seidl. As far back as last February, Rimini was winning over critics at the Berlinale (us included) with its bleak beauty and...
There's a palpable tactility to the 16mm films of Mark Jenkin, the Cornish director whose Bait and Enys Men are boldly edited, transportive journeys with a sen...
Editor's note: Last year at Berlinale, Rory O'Connor caught up with Quentin Dupieux who was there to premiere Incredible But True, which would go on to be the ...
To cinéastes fixated on tabulating statistics like sports fanatics, the Dardennes often come up as examples of unerring consistency, like a player with an impe...
The sophomore feature from director Léa Mysius is an enchanting work of near-unclassifiable fantasy, an evocative tale that links the sense of smell with long-...
