Festivals

Good looking out: this year’s edition features an admirable range of work by major filmmakers, including Tsai Ming-liang, and emerging artists like Ayanna Dozier and Kimi Takesue

Blast off: This year's edition of the North Carolina festival demonstrated a robust hunger among post-pandemic audiences for challenging experimental film, video, and performance work

Fresh faces: Vadim Rizov and Beatrice Loayza join to discuss this year’s lineup of films by emerging directors, including Earth Mama, Safe Place, The Face of the Jellyfish, and more

Collective memory: Mohanad Yaqubi archival collage of emphasizes cinema’s capacity to provoke viewers’ empathic imagination and spark solidarity

Nightlight: C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s new feature is a black-and-white West African folk tale in which the actors glow against a backdrop of ocean and forest

Home life: a revelatory program of evocative films by Robert Beavers daisy-chains memories, dreams, and desires across continents and decades

Born again: the French filmmaker discusses her epic documentary about a women’s health clinic, one of the standouts at this year’s Berlinale

Oceanic feeling: the German filmmaker talks about his latest, a slyly comedic chamber piece, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at last month’s Berlinale

Undercurrents: this year’s Berlin Critics’ Week focused on “sur-realism,” a mode of Latin American filmmaking that doesn’t imagine an escape from reality but instead is fully, vividly, nightmarishly of it.

Me and us: at True/False 2023, the directors of standouts Forms of Forgetting and Milithusando discuss the ethics and aesthetics of personal cinema