Avoiding consensus for our top 2023 picks, Journey Into Cinema focuses on both the best festival films and the finest hidden gems.
Best Festival Films and Hidden Festival Gems 2023
Nick Kouhi
Nick Kouhi is a programmer and critic based in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Death and Transfiguration: Godard, Wang, Costa
A triple header of new short and mid-length work by Godard, Wang and Costa offers ruminations on national identity and holding onto the traumas of the past.
Nowhere Near. Diaristic Digressions Through Family and History.
Miko Revereza brings his trademark diaristic style of digital filmmaking to a polyphonous exploration of family and history in Nowhere Near — playing at NYFF.
The Night Visitors. Moths in the Frame.
The Night Visitors sees avant-garde filmmaker Michael Gitlin use moths as a metaphor for knowledge, asking the viewer to regard the world anew.
Berlinale Forum 2023: An Incomplete Past Treating an Unclear Future
A handful of forum films, including new works by James Benning and Claire Simon, probe the ways history, ever contested, is inscribed onto the future.