José Teodoro

Mommy dearest: a host of titles from the recently wrapped TIFF explore the complexities of the modern family, including The Eternal Daughter, Saint Omer, So Much Tenderness, and more

My favorite things: Real-life jazzman Dexter Gordon’s spellbinding performance is at the heart of Tavernier’s Paris-set and music-rich drama

In the garden: some of the most heartening discoveries at TIFF make for an encouraging prognosis for cinema’s future

Richard Billingham’s debut feature counters the grubby tenets of British miserablism with humor and beauty

Range of light: the director of Our Time on the thin line between art and life

Dominga Sotomayor’s third feature is a study in tumultuous transition

Off the rack: In Fabric tracks a haunted dress purchased at a department store filled with eerily persuasive salespeople

Khalik Allah’s latest finds the New York–based photographer and filmmaker expanding his purview to include the entire nation of Jamaica, his maternal homeland

Watching over: Ganz often devoted the bulk of his energy to listening, captivating us with his attention

Alfonso Cuarón’s richly realized Roma surrounds us with the bourgeois Mexico City of his youth, seen through the eyes of another

(Robert Schwentke, Germany/Poland/Portugal/France, Music Box Films, Opening July 27)

(Sebastián Lelio, Country/Distributor: Chile/USA/Germany/Spain, Sony Pictures Classics, Opening February 2)

Colony records: Zama, the Argentine filmmaker’s stunning return to film after an eight-year absence, merges the country’s past and present

In Neruda and Jackie, shape-shifting filmmaker Pablo Larraín portrays two national icons through refracted storytelling and unexpected emotion

Doubts and murmurs: the director of The Apostate talks about his own religious upbringing and the similarities between the Catholic church and NSA

Prodigal mother: the director of Krisha discusses his high-tension family drama and learning by doing with Terrence Malick

With Sicario, Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve ups the ante on his tales of terror and alienation

Locarno’s spring festival of word and image revives Pawel Pawlikowski’s tag-along with Dostoevsky and celebrates intrepid nonfiction novelist Emmanuel Carrère

(Pablo Larraín, Chile, 2008)