Now in its 22nd year, True/False often operates as a clearing-house of sorts for contemporary documentary anxieties, of which ...

Jacinta is incredibly self-reflective and has a gift for sharing even some of the darkest episodes from her past. Gail was ...

Premiering at SXSW 2025, The Secret of Me is British director Grace Hughes-Hallett’s directorial debut, but you may already ...

Shorts filmmaker Yana Alliata, who has worked in various film industry jobs (Fox Searchlight, FX Networks and Film Finances) ...

AFI Conservatory graduate Jing Ai Ng wants to turn some of those tropes around with her debut feature Forge, premiering in ...

Though ultimately disappointed by the revolutionary Middle East organizations of the ‘60s and ‘70s, who lapsed into anti-semitism or sexism while postponing women’s liberation until the end of ...

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Refusing a single dominant system of values in Lebanon as the secular daughter of a working class Lebanese Jewish father and an Egyptian aristocrat mother provided filmmaker Heiny Srour with what she ...

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Her latest feature, When the Phone Rang, which premiered at Locarno last year, reimagines the director’s own childhood during the breakup of Yugoslavia through the lens of Lana, a doppelganger living ...

When I emailed gallery artist and filmmaker Deniz Eroglu to set up an interview about what I thought was his first feature film, The Shipwrecked Triptych, I asked what past work I should familiarize ...

Emma Laird is both incandescent and haunted as she limns the before and after of trauma in Alex Burunova’s SXSW-premiering debut feature, Satisfaction. As Lola, a composer and pianist, Laird is ...