Devika Girish

Rise up: a special retrospective series at this year‘s festival captured the revolutionary promise of the historic Afro-Asian Film Festivals of the 1950s and ’60s

Field reports: films like Cover-Up, Landmarks, and The Voice of Hind Rajab pierced through the festival’s illusive bubble with lightning bolts of reality

Parallel histories: Garrett Bradley's remarkable short interrogates representations of early Black filmmakers

More than words: the director of The Future Perfect discusses filmmaking language and making film in another language

Future days: the director discusses his new film, how he gets bodies to speak for themselves, and the role of art in the face of the apocalypse

Face off: a conversation about Jordan Peele’s Us and issues of horror, race, class, and criticism itself

Looking forward: Eliza Hittman's portrait of fraught teenagehood is the most overtly political of the writer-director’s work

In the drink: Undine reenergizes the recursive motifs of Christian Petzold's oeuvre while also sharpening his longstanding interest in history and capitalism

Girl talk: the director of the ultra-pink blockbuster discusses imbuing inanimate objects with feeling, balancing cynicism and care, and, of course, irrepressible thoughts of death

Double vision: how long can we maintain the ruse of championing artistic freedom and civil liberties in cinemas surrounded by hundreds of cops and A.I.-powered cameras and staffed by underpaid workers?