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Ela Bittencourt

Blood on Their Hands: Luis Ospina

By Ela Bittencourt
May 8, 2020
Colombian class warrior Luis Ospina blazed a revolutionary trail through Latin American cinema with subversive genre and documentary works

Rise Up!

By Ela Bittencourt
March 2, 2020
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s Brazilian epic Bacurau sets the world on fire with an invigorating and audacious story of resistance that feeds off of pulp and politics

Interview: Feras Fayyad

By Ela Bittencourt
October 15, 2019
In the dark: The Cave tells the story of an extraordinary woman doctor caring for a besieged community in southwestern Syria

Interview: Kantemir Balagov

By Ela Bittencourt
October 7, 2019
Lean times: the director of Beanpole on the use of color and the influence of literature on his NYFF standout

Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles

By Ela Bittencourt
May 21, 2019
Country life: The directors of Bacurau on how the film‘s setting in Brazil’s wild backcountry informed their blistering portrait of resistance

Interview: André Novais Oliveira & Grace Passô

By Ela Bittencourt
March 29, 2019
Edge of the city: the director and lead actor of Long Way Home on the difficulties facing black filmmakers in Brazil

Interview: Helena Třeštíková

By Ela Bittencourt
January 17, 2019
The stories we tell: the Czech documentary filmmaker on creating narratives out of daily life, her recent Doomed Beauty, and how her work is (or is not) feminist.

Review: Cold War

By Ela Bittencourt
December 19, 2018
(Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland, Amazon Studios, Opening December 21)

Interview: Naomi Kawase

By Ela Bittencourt
December 17, 2018
Self-reflections: the award-winning Japanese filmmaker talks about her intimate autobiographical documentary work

Festivals: Doclisboa 2018

By Ela Bittencourt
November 15, 2018
The center holds: the annual documentary film festival in Portugal presented experimental works that engaged directly with our real world

Interview: Radu Jude

By Ela Bittencourt
July 27, 2018
Slow recovery: the Romanian director of Scarred Hearts and Aferim! talks about the lasting wounds of history

Short Take: Vazante

By Ela Bittencourt
January 3, 2018
(Daniela Thomas, Brazil/Portugal, Music Box Films, January 12)

Rep Diary: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

By Ela Bittencourt
October 27, 2017
Figments of a nation: the Brazilian director’s delirious (and dangerous) allegories pulse with the enduring energies of Cinema Novo

Locarno Voices: Good Manners and Le Fort des Fous

By Ela Bittencourt
September 1, 2017
Colonial hangover: Brazilian directors Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra and Algerian director Narimane Mari probe their countries’ respective historical traumas

Review: L’Important c’est d’aimer

By Ela Bittencourt
July 3, 2017
(Andrzej Zulawski, France, Rialto Pictures, Opens July 14)

Art of the Real: Andrea Tonacci

By Ela Bittencourt
May 1, 2017
No boundaries: the late director helped define Brazil's underground film movement by breaking (and mocking) the fourth wall

Interview: Michal Marczak

By Ela Bittencourt
February 17, 2017
Party till the world ends: the director of All These Sleepless Nights talks about re-creating those all-night odysseys of youth

Interview: Andrzej Wajda

By Ela Bittencourt
February 8, 2017
Moments of truth: the Polish auteur speaks about his work's relationship to censorship and his final film, Afterimage

Interview: Eduardo Williams

By Ela Bittencourt
October 5, 2016
Expressway to your skull: the director of The Human Surge discusses his cinematic peregrinations and digital fascinations

Short Takes: Demon

By Ela Bittencourt
September 6, 2016
(Marcin Wrona, Poland/Israel, Opening September 9)