Khalik Allah's debut feature Field Niggas took viewers by surprise. The film, a rare contemporary ethnographic documentary set on the corner of 125th and Lexing...
Shireen Seno's sophomore feature Nervous Translation confirms her place as a unique voice in a national cinema that often gets ignored, or distilled to only a f...
Yui Kiyohara's sophomore feature and Tokyo University of the Arts thesis film Our House begins with an almost transgressive scene that contrasts the ambiance of...
There must be something really frightening in a 50-year-old woman deciding to give up her role as diligent housewife and mother, especially when it is the only ...
Sadaf Foroughi’s fulminating debut feature, Ava, may strike a few chords among Persepolis enthusiasts. A role-model schoolgirl turned rebel, its eponymous teena...
The characters populating Ilian Metev’s 3/4 (read: Three Quarters) often walk and talk in pairs, but they are seldom framed together, the camera lingering on ea...
Long before “Galang” and “Paper Planes," and prior to her Oscar nomination and universal fame, there was a time M.I.A. was Mathangi Arulpragasam, the daughter o...
Now in its 47th year, New Directors/New Films is a stellar showcase for new voices in cinema, both domestic and international, and this year's lineup is no ...
Since it debuted on the festival circuit last year, we've had our eye on The Dreamed Path, Angela Schanelec's first solo directing effort since 2010. While ...
"Do you want to save the world, or do you want to go down? Do you want to save the world or do you want to go down?" That is the question repeated at the be...
