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
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
Eyes and ears: the directors of We Met in Virtual Reality and I Didn't See You There join for a special live conversation about how documentaries make and unmake our ways of seeing
Modern myths: the directors of The Girl and the Spider and What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? discuss their inspirations, aspirations, and the resonances between their whimsical films
Home of the free: Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, and Jackson Polys discuss their “public secret society” and its new exhibit, which questions our relationships to indigeneity
In the drink: Undine reenergizes the recursive motifs of Christian Petzold's oeuvre while also sharpening his longstanding interest in history and capitalism
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