Birney discusses where he sees connective tissue between cinema and video games.
These films attest to the range of human expression that’s vital to understanding the context of the age we live in.
Bi discusses how he translated his narrative ideas into a sensory dimension.
Ella McCay seeks to project optimism in a time of unrelenting divisiveness.
On paper, anime master Hosoda Mamoru’s Scarlet sounds positively electrifying.
Fuller’s film is essentially a dark fantasy spin on Léon: The Professional.
Charlie Ahearn’s film is a time capsule of early-’80s hip-hop culture and satire on class collision.
Initially resembling a dark psychological drama, the film increasingly settles into a gentler tone.
Stewart’s feature-length directorial debut is a shattered portrait of female pain and power.
Safdie’s rapturously reprises a siren song that transcends any single American era.
Sorrentino discusses why it was important to reflect an ideal version of politics in his film.
The film’s emphasis is on the spectacle of protest, rather than its organization.
The film sees the intensity of moral strictures as giving meaning to the transgression of them.
This adaptation of Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel is as insubstantial as candy floss.
This curatorial eye felt like a particularly precious gift this year
Zootopia 2 outdoes its predecessor by adding new and deeper layers to its social commentary.
A committed cast raises David Freyne’s high-concept rom-com from out of purgatory.
This year’s festival boasted 19 features, 11 shorts, a fragment of an otherwise lost film, and more.
Mendonça Filho and Moura discuss the role of cinema in making social change.
Schilinski discusses the film’s sound and her research into the reverberations of trauma.
The film’s details are warm and intimate, suggesting fondly remembered memories.