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Lensing justice: Rahsaan Thomas and Thanh Tran share insights from their experience of directing films while they were incarcerated

Born to film: in their openness and DIY approach, Danny Lyon's films resist the streamlined, polished professionalism that The Bikeriders movie adaptation epitomizes

Sing me back home: Angela Schanelec's Music is a hypnotic reverie about hands and feet, landscapes and bodies, gazes and gestures, and people suddenly lifting their voices in song

School's out: Genevieve Yue and Isabel Stevens—both critics and parents—discuss what they watch with their children and why (with the kids themselves chiming in, too!)

Luminous zones: the undersung avant-garde filmmaker reflects on a lifetime spent exploring light, dreams, and the art of seeing

Female trouble: at this year's festival, women were driven mad on screen—from Iran to Manila, from Chicago to Czechoslovakia

Communal insistence: the curators join to discuss the making of this year's event, held at the Thai Film Archive

Cloudbusting: the magic of the Canadian actor, whose screen career spanned over six decades, lay in his unique commingling of whimsy and vitality

Lost highways: the two critics join to discuss their new book Corpses, Fools and Monsters, an examination of the past, present, and future of trans cinema

Spiritual unity: the recently released soundtrack pulls from avant-garde jazz and traditional Persian music to create a new audio work just as madcap, ambiguous, and avant-garde as the original film was, almost 50 years ago