Berlinale Review: Mati Diop’s Golden Bear-Winning Dahomey Is a Fulminating Story of Restitution and Liberation

In 1953, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghislain Cloquet produced Statues Also Die, one of the fiercest and most lucid indictments of white imperialism ever ...

Watch Mati Diop’s Music Video for Her Father Wasis Diop’s New Single Voyage à Paris

As we wait to see how Mati Diop will follow her astounding Cannes-winning directorial debut Atlantics, the filmmaker will appear in her first acting role in fi...

Mati Diop on Her Feature Debut ‘Atlantics,’ Giving Meaning to Lost Lives, and the Hysteria of Cannes

We spoke with Mati Diop at the 57th New York Film Festival about crafting her debut feature film as the completion to her 2009 short Atlantiques....

First Trailer for Mati Diop’s Cannes Winner ‘Atlantics’

Niece to the great Djibril Diop Mambéty, Mati Diop has been on our radar for a while, with excellent short films and performances in 35 Shots of Rum, Simon ...

12 Films to See at the 57th New York Film Festival

The year's best-curated selection of cinema begins this Friday at Film at Lincoln Center: the New York Film Festival....

50 Films to See This Fall

As summer cools down, we're entering perhaps the best time of year for cinephiles....

57th NYFF Main Slate Includes Kelly Reichardt’s ‘First Cow,’ Olivier Assayas’ ‘Wasp Network’ & More

Following the announcements that Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, and Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn would occupy the ga...

Cannes Review: ‘Atlantics’ Captures the Migrant Crisis Through a Ghost Tale of Perturbing Beauty

Somewhere along the stretch of Senegalese coastline where Mati Diop’s feature-length directorial debut Atlantics takes place, a futuristic tower stands tall and...

Bong Joon-ho Wins Palme d’Or for ‘Parasite’; See the Full List of Cannes 2019 Winners

In a unanimous decision by the Cannes 2019 jury headed up by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Bong Joon-ho was awarded the Palme d'Or for his new thriller Paras...

Our 20 Most-Anticipated Films of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival

We count down the films we can't wait to see at Cannes....