Devika Girish

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

Broken systems: two Sundance films highlight the breakdowns that occur when the public good meets the free market

In frame: Chinonye Chukwu’s film, which opens the 2019 ND/NF, features an extraordinary performance by Alfre Woodard as a conflicted prison warden

Parallel histories: Garrett Bradley's remarkable short interrogates representations of early Black filmmakers

Love in dark times: The Nightingale director on bringing together distinct (but connected) narratives of gendered and racist violence

Astral traveling: The spirit of Afro-futurism is beautifully embodied in the all-star collective The Ummah Chroma's short film

Reaching out: in Cam and People’s Republic of Desire bodies are monetized, but at what cost?

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