Long journey: Sarah Friedland‘s debut feature Familiar Touch—the Opening Night selection of this year’s New Directors/New Films Festival—is the rare film about aging that bypasses the lurid and the exploitative
Bite our style: Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl explores everything from the tragicomedy of survival to the Black feminist refusals of Missy Elliott
Look again: boutique DVD and Blu-ray labels like Fun City Editions, Arbelos Films, and Vinegar Syndrome play a crucial role in sustaining canon-flouting cinema
