Worlds apart: the Japanese auteur discusses his Cannes Queer Palm–winner Monster, a clever, multiperspectival drama about the inner world of children that adults cannot—often to great detriment—access or comprehend
Here and elsewhere: the philosopher-turned-filmmaker joins for a conversation about the making of his debut film, which explodes conventions of biography and nonfiction for a uniquely collective portrait of trans life
Material history: Dominik Graf discusses his latest documentary, an investigation of the numerous German writers and artists who collaborated (often quietly) with the Nazi regime
Decline and fall: the French discusses her Palme d’Or–winning feature, which uses courtroom-drama tropes to fashion a dark, witty, and tender dissection of the complexities of romantic and family life
Love in the afternoon: the French filmmaker discusses her return to cinema, the productive tension between realism and expressionism, the art of the sex scene, and much more
Office culture: director Rodrigo Moreno discusses his NYFF61 standout, a matryoshka doll of a movie, crackling with dry humor, about the drudgery of office work
Earth and sky: the director and cinematographer behind the NYFF61 standout discuss their poetic, evocative portrait of a young woman whose story is inextricably linked to a sense of community and place
More please: Arnow’s comedic auto-portrait of a woman adrift in New York City is a moving exploration of romantic and existential indecision, sexual self-expression, humiliation, and the uses of first-person experience in storytelling