Academic-turned-filmmaker Jules Rosskam’s Desire Lines is a personal, politically-relevant time-travelling journey through the lives of trans men.
The Timely Desire Lines Gives the Forgotten Home and Liberation From Anxiety
Category: Festivals
Reviews and dispatches exploring the best new cinema premiering around the world.
Radical Archeology Challenges Past and Present in Praia Formosa
Brazilian documentarian Julia De Simone’s first fiction feature imbues the past with the urgency of the present, breaking free of historical restraints.
Best Festival Films and Hidden Festival Gems 2023
Avoiding consensus for our top 2023 picks, Journey Into Cinema focuses on both the best festival films and the finest hidden gems.
IDFA 2023: Fact, Fiction, Fabrication
As IDFA as an institution failed to find the correct response to pro-Palestinian activism, the films themselves had an equally knotty relationship to facts.
Kennedy Takes Us On a Deadly Cinematic Rollercoaster
Anurag Kashyap returns with another blood-splattered revenge thriller, re-affirming the auteur as one of the most vital voices in Indian cinema.
The Enduring Appeal of Bugis Street
A new restoration of Bugis Street underscores the queer and transgressive Singaporean film’s timeless message nearly 30 years after its release.
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.
Life, Assembled. Architecture (Re)-Imagined
Life, Assembled takes you deep into the architectural process, wondering if the progressive Belgian ideals of the 70s are still worth pursuing today.