Fatima meditates on language barriers and what it takes to become French.
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Rendez-Vous with French Cinema preview
Running from March 3 to 13, the NYC festival gives viewers a sneak peek at this year’s most exciting French titles.
Joshua Oppenheimer discusses his haunted, ‘magical realist’ doc The Look of Silence
Joshua Oppenheimer discusses his collaboration with Adi Rukun, the importance of empathy, and the magical realist landscape and soundscape of his Oscar-nominated documentary The Look of Silence.
Interview: Chloé Leriche on Before the Streets and indigenous cinema
Canadian director Chloé Leriche discusses bringing the Atikamekw language and community to the big screen for the first time at this year’s Berlinale.
Sandy Powell’s costumes in Carol tell what words can’t
Costume designer Sandy Powell showed how two starkly different women refashion one another into a perfect match.
The politics of sisterhood in Mustang
Mustang, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s directorial debut, charts five sisters’ resistance, as they both grow into and reject a narrow notion of womanhood. But Ergüven privileges perspectives that a Western audience can understand and approve of, making the story too familiar and incomplete.