Devika Girish

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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Sixth sense: an outsider learns to search within in Ali Abbasi's emotionally grounded work of fantasy

Burning star Steven Yeun finds himself anew on screen

(Josephine Decker, USA, Oscilloscope, Opening August 10)

Ancestral spirits: a new work by experimental filmmaker Deborah Stratman gives a platform for strong female voices from the past and present

Whistling while you work: the director’s first film abroad considers code and genre through an unusual linguistic phenomenon