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Introduction Recent political events, such as the “Title 42” expulsions, have led to growing prominence in United States-Mexico border discourses. The Trump Administration used the law during the COVID-19 pand...

In 2022 the National Film and Sound Archive acquired the hand-made filmmaking material Paul Winkler constructed to make his innovative films from the the 1960’s to the present. Winkler is packing up his practic...

In the United States, regional filmmakers rarely get the same attention as their big-city counterparts, at least until they premiere in New York or L.A. This denial of certain geographic perspectives is bound u...

In the middle of last October, DocLisboa presented again, as a window on the present – its tagline: “In October, the whole world fits in Lisbon”. Important news came at the end: Miguel Ribeiro finished his tenu...

With input from Subrat Beura Several film enthusiasts in the city of Bhubaneshwar, Odisha warmly embraced several independent films screened between 22 - 24 September 2023 during the fourth Indian documentary ...

For its first iteration as an annual event, the Adelaide Film Festival invited audiences to “see in the dark”. Enticing hot-pink branding accompanied a program that consisted of over 130 Australian and internat...

Over the past several years, San Sebastian IFF has slowly become one of the major European platforms for showcasing Asian Cinema. Priority might be given to Spanish language or Latin Cinema, but the shift towar...

The mid-1980s ushered in an unprecedented flourishing of a vibrant, fervent cinephile culture in Tokyo. The bubble economy was in full swing, some of which trickled down to the cultural sector. Across the city,...

Five hundred-plus films and a cold, dark Baltic city filled with medieval churches and Soviet high-rises: what more could a cinephile ask for? Where you watch a film is always as important as what you’re watchi...

b. 31 December 1923, Thessaloniki, Greece d. 16 October 2010, Piraeus, Greece Before the emergence of Theo Angelopoulos in the mid-1970s, Greek Cinema was largely unknown to international cinephiles despite a...

b. 11 September 1968, Nice, France Bertrand Bonello’s movies coalesce into a saga of political disillusionments. His characters are would-be revolutionaries, doomed youths, and indecisive figures paralyzed in ...

In recent decades, a burgeoning scholarly attention has turned to how documentaries problematise the private through the reworking of amateur films. Building upon Jay Leyda’s foundational concept of the compila...

Across its 600-plus pages, Foster Hirsch’s ambitious account of Hollywood and the films made there during the 1950s covers the terrain with comprehensive purpose. As he puts it in his introduction, citing L.P. ...

My initial viewing of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920) took place in 2022. As a 21st-century moviegoer, I had been educated by technically refined psychological hor...

Gilberto Perez’s The Eloquent Screen has less a thesis than a theme. It doesn’t argue for the importance of rhetoric in film; more it muses over how it can allow us to see films in a particular way with the aid...

It’s been six years since the passing of the marriage equality act, and 43 years since the decriminalization of homosexuality in Victoria (1980). With the teaching of Queer sexual education, with programs like ...

ENTRIES IN PART 1: Jacob Agius Antti Alanen Hussain Al-Dubaisi Francisco Algarín Navarro Julien Allen Michael J. Anderson Dan Auiler Swapnil Azad Jessica Balanzategui Martyn Bamber Jennifer Lynde Bar...

ENTRIES IN PART 2: José Cabrera Betancort Thomas Caldwell Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Guilherme Cavalcanti Daryl Chin Kristen Marie Coleman Jesús Cortés Jordan Cronk Joe CruzBrian...

ENTRIES IN PART 3: John Edmond William Edwards Geronimo Elortegui Cristóbal Escobar Javier H. Estrada Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Simon Foster Giampiero Frasca Cynthia FuchsFlora Georgiou...

ENTRIES IN PART 4: Michael Heath Maggie Hennefeld Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Kierran A. HornerBrian Hu Christoph Huber Darik Janik Paul Jeffery Matthew Jordan Michael Heath Screenwrite...

ENTRIES IN PART 5: George Kapaklis Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Aryan Tauqeer Khawaja Simon Killen Rainer Knepperges Gary M. Kramer Jan Křipač Jay KuehnerMark Lager Eugenia Lai Reynaldo Lastre ...

ENTRIES IN PART 6: Josh B Mabe Mattia Magi Bob Manning Miguel Marías Jack McCulloch Duncan McLeanTim McQueen Adrian D. Mendizabal Jamie Mendonça Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Josh B Mabe A libr...

ENTRIES IN PART 7: Jayanth Naga Sai Pasupulati Peter Nagels Virat Nehru Boris Nelepo Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Gabrielle O’Brien Darragh O’Donoghue Wilfred Okiche SvenErik Olsen Andreea Pătru Ant...

ENTRIES IN PART 8: Maria San Filippo Rowena Santos Aquino Jack Sargeant Hamed Sarrafi Christine Sathiah Andrea Schmidt Dr James Slaymaker Valerie Soe Öykü Sofuoğlu Karina Solórzano Mark Spratt Vedan...

The first thing you should know is that Western is not really a western.  Just because a film features horses, guns and the great outdoors doesn’t mean that it’s a Western; just because it’s set in Bulgaria do...

From the opening moments of Romanian director Radu Jude’s Silver Bear-winning Aferim! (2015) we instantly recognize the cinematic terrain. In a low-contrast black-and-white palette against a cloud-strewn sky, t...

Reflecting on her AFI-winning feature Silver City (1984) in her achingly intimate 2013 documentary Once My Mother, filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz addresses her mother Helen, who, like the protagonists of the film,...

A longer version of this article analysing The Golden Cage, A Handful of Dust, and Ayten Kuyululu’s career in more detail will appear in a forthcoming issue of Metro magazine. Ayten Kuyululu is a key figure ...

What are the right words to discuss this? - Stephen Dwoskin on Gregory Markopoulos Advance Guard artists are so far in advance of their audiences that they often have to explain what it is that they are doing...

Positive representation dominates the current debate around queer audiovisual media. But make no mistake, A Rainha Diaba (Antonio Carlos de Fontoura, 1974) is nothing of the sort. Lauded as the first film to ha...

Chinese independent cinema has long been associated with the term ‘underground cinema’ since its emergence in the 1990s. Due to its non-compliance to censorship, it has existed in the grey space between the aut...

Gerson Tavares (1926-2021) made only a few films in a very rich period in Brazil’s history, circling around yet outside of the 1960s political preoccupations of Cinema Marginal, Cinema Novo, the popular erotici...

Renowned as one of Iran's most esteemed cultural and artistic personas, Bahram Beyzaie's depth of knowledge in theatre is unparalleled. He is both an established academic in traditional Iranian and Eastern thea...

A good short film uses time to support the story. Given the brief running time, a filmmaker must establish a setup, keep viewers in suspense, and deliver a satisfying payoff in, 15 minutes. Short films evoke an...

The stand-out film of the 2023 Nippon Connection – although the ‘Visions’ jury in Frankfurt didn’t agree with me – was Amiko, (Kochira Amiko, 2022), written and directed by Morii Yūsuke in his feature debut. No...

Some films outlive time. Although their year of production is located in the past, their energy spreads over decades, influencing filmmakers, resurfacing in new artworks, not once abandoning the viewer who had ...