Who shall I say is calling? Two NYFF62 standouts, Philippe Lesage’s Who by Fire and Nicolás Pereda’s Lázaro at Night, ...

The past is present: the 2024 NYFF Revivals section featured films about labor and dreams, including Zeinabu irene Davis’s ...

Ehrlich's The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire and Mati Diop's Dahomey both probe the tensions of transmitting memory ...

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Matías Piñeiro’s You Burn Me and Jem Cohen's Little, Big, and Far are both richly attuned to the surfaces of things ...

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In her superlative sophomore feature Attenberg (2010), Athina Rachel Tsangari pondered the mysteries of the human mammal through the story of a young woman who is so mesmerized by wildlife ...

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Grief and loss are both overpowering and elusive, impossible to examine directly but always present for the stricken, like a sunspot on the edge of one’s vision. We struggle to confront and describe ...