Audrey Diwan’s Happening follows a young woman’s journey in the 1960s to even find a backstreet abortionist amidst a culture of shame and silence.
Riley Stearns’s Dual is a blackly comic light sci-fi
Riley Stearns’s Dual is a surprisingly thoughtful look at chronic illness inside a dark comedy about future with clones. Read all of our Sundance 2022 coverage here.
Run Woman Run is a feel good movie about recovering from trauma
Zoe Leigh Hopkins’s Run Woman Run is a thirty-something coming-of-ager about learning to love and care for yourself amidst a lot of trauma.
From Wood and Water to The Crossing, Festival du Nouveau Cinema is one of the best fall festivals
Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinema showcased international films, including The Crossing, Wood and Water, and Introduction, and homegrown talent with The Noise of Engines and The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge.
‘A story about finding home’: Jonas Poher Rasmussen on Flee
Flee, the multi-award-winning animated documentary, is now in US cinemas. Here’s why animation was the best way to tell this story.
Tom Hughes on Shepherd, The Laureate, and the human condition
Tom Hughes discusses Shepherd, The Laureate, finding the rhythm of his characters, and his fascination with the human condition.