Festivals

Dispatch: Qumra 2019

By Jordan Cronk

April 8, 2019

New age: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Alice Rohrwacher, and VR and its discontents at the Doha Film Institute's industry summit in Qatar

Interview: Burak Çevik

By Yonca Talu

April 1, 2019

Crime and punishment: Belonging, screening April 4 at ND/NF, rises above psychological and moral judgments to navigate the complexity of family history

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

ND/NF Voices: Honeyland, Joy, End of the Century

By Naomi Keenan O'Shea

March 27, 2019

Three's company: the filmmakers behind standouts from ND/NF chat about their films

Interview: Mark Jenkin

By Chloe Lizotte

March 27, 2019

Fresh catch: the rough-hewn Bait keenly portrays a displaced and reconfigured working-class community in coastal Britain

Interview: Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell

By Jordan Cronk

March 19, 2019

It's relative: the directors of MS Slavic 7 on the use of biography and the strange experience of playing a version of your director on screen

Apropos de Cannes, 1963

By Nelly Kaplan

March 18, 2019

The renowned writer and filmmaker reports on a festival full of noise and fury

Berlinale 2019 Dispatch

By Jordan Cronk

March 4, 2019

State of transition: this year's highlights point toward a welcome renewal for the venerable festival

The Truth Hurts

By Amy Taubin

March 1, 2019

Read Taubin's take on Honeyland, screening this week at New Directors/New Films, among other festival standouts

Rotterdam 2019 Dispatch

By Jordan Cronk

February 21, 2019

"I’m not a filmmaker. I just made a film": new films from José Celestino Campusano, Jang Woojin, and Romina Paula highlight the festival