Devika Girish

In the drink: Undine reenergizes the recursive motifs of Christian Petzold's oeuvre while also sharpening his longstanding interest in history and capitalism

Time after time: the Haitian filmmaker discusses his new series, a kaleidoscopic exploration of the origins of white supremacy

Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal, 1992; Kino Lorber, DVD & Blu-Ray

Colombian filmmaker Camilo Restrepo’s debut feature Los Conductos burns white-hot with the misterioso story of an outlaw at large

With no theater to step into, Devika Girish reflects on the options for connecting with others and with cinema

New and important work plucked from festivals and elsewhere

Water under the bridge: Christian Petzold, director of Berlinale sensation Undine, talks about themes of romantic loss and betrayal in his work

The great flood: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's Sundance-winning feature turns the tragic realities of displacement in Lesotho into a strange, oneiric fable

Man alive: the director of Cameraperson sits down out at Sundance to discuss her latest, premiering at the festival

Looking forward: Eliza Hittman's portrait of fraught teenagehood is the most overtly political of the writer-director’s work

Becoming a critic in an era of burgeoning possibility and unsettling futures

In her harrowing new feature, Kitty Green details the lives of low-level Hollywood workers and the webs of power and silence they’re often caught in

Greta Gerwig’s energetic tour-de-force adaptation of Little Women frames the aspirations of Jo and her sisters as urgent matters of personal independence

Women of the world, take over: this year’s festival featured bracing, inspired films by up-and-coming women directors from all over the world

Here, there, and everywhere: the director of Terminal Sud discusses the universal resonances of his elliptical French-Algerian thriller

Although director Alejandro Landes’s script keeps context to an evocative minimum, the shadow of Colombia’s tentatively concluded civil conflict is unmistakable

Family matters: the directors of One Child Nation on the psychological workings—and vestiges—of the decades-long Chinese policy

Cheerfully on point, workplace comedy Late Night plays out complex issues with the easy candor of its star, Mindy Kaling

Fear is not an option: Anand Patwardhan's essay film traces the pattern of political and sectarian violence across the modern history of India

Face off: a conversation about Jordan Peele’s Us and issues of horror, race, class, and criticism itself