Devika Girish

Spit take: a collection of newly restored shorts from the Sudanese Film Group strain against the didactic dictates of a state-sanctioned national cinema

Throughlines: the German actor, known for his extraordinary physicality, discusses his inspirations and his firecracker performance in Ira Sachs’s new film, Passages

Girl talk: the director of the ultra-pink blockbuster discusses imbuing inanimate objects with feeling, balancing cynicism and care, and, of course, irrepressible thoughts of death

Lush life: the director discusses her debut feature, the particularities of portraying Black motherhood, how she eschewed social-realist tropes, and what her (many nonprofessional) actors taught her about empathy

Perspective shift: history was retold and resold at this year’s Cannes, in films like Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, Lisandro Alonso's Eureka, Alice Rohrwacher's La chimera, and others

Sewed up tight: the Cameroonian filmmaker discusses her first narrative feature, a standout selection of this year’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar

Historical material: the Oscar-winning director discusses his epic new doc, an early highlight of this year’s festival

Out of sight: the recipient of the 48th Chaplin Award discusses the process behind some of her most memorable performances

Termite art: the director discusses her latest, a wry, poignant look at the life of a Portland artist

Born again: the French filmmaker discusses her epic documentary about a women’s health clinic, one of the standouts at this year’s Berlinale

Oceanic feeling: the German filmmaker talks about his latest, a slyly comedic chamber piece, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at last month’s Berlinale

Flesh and blood: Ela Bittencourt and Jonathan Ali join to discuss Our Body, Black Head, Superpower, Horse Opera, and more

Now you see me: the standouts at this year's fest challenged the idea of cinema as an "empathy machine," offering us new ways to look and care

Tall tales: the light of Steven Spielberg’s cinema is both illuminating and disillusioning, and in the autobiographical The Fabelmans, the auteur subjects himself to its glare

Truth claims: the French-Senegalese filmmaker discusses the real-life roots of her fiction debut and what it means to embody universality in a Black woman

Blue in the face: the best films at this year’s Locarno—like Helena Wittman’s Human Flowers of Flesh—invited contemplation rather than mere comprehension

Mirror, mirror: Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza join to discuss the metatextual intricacies of Olivier Assayass's and Nathan Fielder's buzzy new shows

Future days: the director discusses his new film, how he gets bodies to speak for themselves, and the role of art in the face of the apocalypse

Flying high: the last few days of Cannes contained many of this year’s high points, including Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up, Albert Serra’s Pacifiction, and David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future

Body and soul: the prolific French actress joins the podcast to discuss her starring turns in excellent new films by Mia Hansen-Løve and David Cronenberg