In Céline Sciamma’s fifth feature, Petite Maman, getting to know your mother is like chasing after a ghost.
Essays
Berlinale Review: Alice Diop documents the Paris suburbs in Nous
Alice Diop’s documentary Nous is a portrait of Paris, told through intimate vignettes of citizens living in the suburbs.
Shatara Michelle Ford’s Test Pattern explores power dynamics
Shatara Michelle Ford’s Test Pattern explores power dynamics, in the lead up to and aftermath of a sexual assault, and how a couple copes.
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.
IFFR Review: Aristocrats compares two women’s freedom in class-conscious Tokyo
Yukiko Sode’s Aristocrats, which world premiered at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR), follows two Tokyo women of different social classes who are both romantically connected to the same man.
What is the Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Competition?
The World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival featured some genuinely exciting and original films, as well as many films that check the selection’s regular boxes.