Benita may not have left a note when she took her life, but her archive was a kind of trail — what I call a “filmmaker’s ...

Mario Patrocínio’s Maria Vitória is the writer-director’s first narrative feature, but it brings the chops of his documentary ...

The nonprofit Sundance Institute today announced in a press release details for the 2026 Sundance Film Festival’s annual ...

Andres Veiel’s “Riefenstahl” is an arresting and deeply disturbing all-archival portrait of the titular Third Reich ...

Writer-director Avalon Fast discusses her sophomore feature CAMP, which centers on a group of “gorgeous misfits” working at a Canadian summer camp.

Alex Winter and Tom Stern’s 1993 cult classic Freaked is less an example of “high” and “low” art commingling than of pop- and-sub-cultures colliding. At the precipice of marquee fame after headlining ...

One of our most prolific independent American filmmakers, Richard Linklater, now has two new movies in release. Nouvelle ...

In 2021, the Tokyo International Film Festival decided to leap out of mediocrity. It was, acquaintances told me, previously the kind of place where they’d show Princess Diaries 2 for red-carpet ...

If there is a giant who sits astride the history of Uzbek cinema, it’s Ali Khamraev, one of those rare talents like Welles or ...

Director Sky Hopinka on”Powwow People,” “a vérité-style doc grounded in the rhythms, relationships, and lived experience of a contemporary Native gathering.” ...

On the cusp of every autumn for the last 21 years, the Camden International Film Festival becomes the center of the nonfiction world, offering a kind of community campfire in the midst of the seasonal ...

“The film isn’t about you,” Joanna Arnow tells her parents at the beginning of 2013’s i hate myself :). “You’re secondary characters.” Her mother Barbara responds, “We know who the primary character ...