The 2025 First Look Festival at the Museum of the Moving Image celebrates adventurous cinema, both fiction and nonfiction. This year’s highlights include the documentaries Elementary and Tata, as well as the docufiction When the Phone Rang.
Balkan Cinema
8 Must-See Short Films at TIFF 2024
lex Heeney picks 8 must-see short films at TIFF 2024 from around the world.
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic on her film Murina
In this interview, Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic discusses her Caméra d’Or winning feature, Murina
How Jasna Đuričić crafted her ferocious performance in Quo Vadis, Aida?
Jasna Đuričić discusses the elaborate rehearsal process that got her into character for Quo Vadis, Aida?.
‘She is like many women I know who were lionesses’: Jasmila Žbanić on Quo Vadis, Aida?
Writer-director Jasmila Žbanić discusses her blistering film about the Bosnian genocide, Quo Vaids, Aida?, which is Bosnia and Herzegovina’s entry for the Best International Feature Oscar.
TIFF Review: Bosnian genocide drama Quo Vadis, Aida? grapples with complicity
Jasmila Žbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida?, a harrowing drama about the 1995 Bosnian genocide, is one of the best films of TIFF 2020. Find out why…