Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut skillfully adapts Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter, the story of a middle-aged woman who shouldn't have had kids and is …
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Ferit Karahan revisited his time at a Turkish boarding school for the chilling Brother’s Keeper
Ferit Karahan discusses writing and directing Brother's Keeper, a nuanced and bleak film about Kurdish children living in fear at a Turkish boarding school. The …
Grace Glowicki on the strange experiments of her directorial debut, Tito
After her Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best First Feature, we spoke with multi-hyphenate Grace Glowicki about Tito, her oddball directorial debut. Tito …
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Highlights from the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2021
Lindsay Pugh runs down the best of Final Girls Berlin 2021, from Your Monster to Time of Moulting to The Returned. While I wouldn’t exactly call myself a …
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Acasă, My Home raises tough questions and avoids trite answers
Radu Ciorniciuc's documentary Acasă, My Home follows the Enache family, whose patriarch has decided to live outside conventional society. As demands for …
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Saint Frances Interview: On shame, healing, abortion, and blood
Saint Frances director Alex Thompson and writer-star Kelly O'Sullivan on depicting abortion on screen, working with child actors, and telling personal stories. …
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