Directors Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane discuss their documentary film In Loco Parentis about a modern boarding school, Headfort School in Ireland. Neasa Ní Chianáin has continued to explore innovative pedagogy on film with her documentary Young Plato.
Film Festivals
Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a new kind of female body horror
Mary Angela Rowe’s review of Raw. Cannibalism is definitely a lady problem in Julia Ducournau’s Raw, but the film isn’t about the horror of female sexuality so much as the twisted results of shoving young women into a pressure cooker of experiences and expectations.
Review: A Fantastic Woman was one of the best of the Berlinale
Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman follows a grieving trangender woman who fights for her right to be respectfully treated as a person in mourning.
Writer-director Selma Vilhunen talks Little Wing
Finnish writer-director Selma Vilhunen discusses her feature debut, Little Wing, dysfunctional families, and working with child actors.
Berlinale Review: Just Like Our Parents is an early highlight
In Lais Bodanzky’s Just Like Our Parents, an overworked mother of two seeks her autonomy and happiness and finds that her wayward mother has the answers.
Director Ramona Diaz talks Motherland and life in the maternity ward
Documentarian Ramona Diaz discusses the making of Motherland and how she got real, emotional access to her subjects during their stay at the maternity ward.