Graphic images: the Romanian director—whose film was the talk of the Locarno film festival—grapples with guilt and pleasure vis-à-vis art and culture in the context of war
Virtual reality: highlights from this year's edition include Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World and Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge 3, both informed by our digitally-dominated daily life
Speechless: in her overview of silent film festivals around the world, scholar Maggie Hennefeld describes fragments of lost worlds revived, offering jolts of existential promise
Jaw dropping: this year’s edition of the Flaherty Seminar delved into the simultaneously exhilarating and elegiac experience of contemplating the past and future of queer experimental film
At the crossroads: three striking discoveries stood out at this year's Czech festival, including Tinatin Kajrishvili’s Citizen Saint, Naqqash Khalid’s In Camera, and Ernst De Geer’s The Hypnosis
Over the shoulder: this year's festival of rediscovered cinema, featuring a retrospective of the films of Rouben Mamoulia, was not merely a celebration of past glories, but a declaration of a peculiarly privileged present
Strength in numbers: the duo discuss their latest drama about the local effects of global capitalism, which sees working-class Northern Englanders clashing, and finding common ground, with Syrian refugees
Finest worksong: documentarian Wang Bing discusses his two Cannes entries—the typically expansive Youth (Spring), and Man in Black, a briefer, but equally dense portrait of a composer
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