In this essay, Alex Heeney explores looking for home in Andrew Haigh’s films: Weekend, 45 Years, Lean on Pete, and the show Looking.
Arsalan Amiri on making a realistic genre film, Zalava, in Iran
Writer-director Arsalan Amiri and co-writer Ida Panahandeh discuss their first foray into genre territory, Zalava, which won prizes at the Venice International Film Festival.
The Gravedigger’s Wife offers a touching slice of Somali life
The Gravedigger’s Wife follows a Somali gravedigger’s desperate search for funds to finance life-saving surgery for his wife. Read Orla Smith’s interview with the film’s director here In Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s first feature, The Gravedigger’s Wife, which premiered in Semaine de la Critique at Cannes, the great irony is that Guled (Omar Abdi) earns his […]
Holocaust drama The Survivor is a showcase for Ben Foster
Ben Foster gives a complex, layered performance in The Survivor, a film that serves as Holocaust Trauma 101.
Benediction thoughtfully depicts a community of gay men
Benediction may be Terence Davies’s gayest film yet: a character study of a WWI poet who keeps trying to reinvent himself and find solace.
‘The more we went inside Lise’s perspective, the better it got’: Tea Lindeburg on As in Heaven
Director Tea Lindeburg discusses her remarkable film As in Heaven about a day in the life of a teenage girl about to lose everything in 1880s Denmark.