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Give them a hand: this year’s shorts selection featured character-driven indies and a lively variety of experiential docs

Water, water, everywhere: critics Alissa Wilkinson and Violet Lucca join to discuss the ongoing flood of cinema that is the Sundance Film Festival

Virtual insanity: FC Publisher Eugene Hernandez and Sundance Director of Programming Kim Yutani discuss this year’s unique festival experience

Eruptions: critics Cassie da Costa and Abby Sun join to discuss standout films from the festival’s opening weekend, including docs Fire of Love and Riotsville, USA and new films from Lena Dunham and Jesse Eisenberg

Factory settings: a long-awaited retrospective shines a light on the films of Márta Mészáros, thickly textured portraits of love affairs, workdays, and friendships between women

Train in vain: Juho Kuosmanen gentle romantic drama is a film of sweet, uncomplicated loveliness—an increasingly undervalued cinematic tonality

Yesterday: the director of The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu recalls a fateful encounter with an artistic hero

Sound and fury: Ashley Clark and Geeta Dayal join to discuss The Beatles: Get Back, Summer of Soul, Ornette: Made in America and more

Tale as old as time: in Mamoru Hosoda's virtual-age spin on The Beauty and the Beast, two teenagers seek connection in the vast void of the internet

Crime and punishment: the French actor is at once grotesque and rivetingly human in Alain Corneau's 1979 thriller