The 2021 Rendez-vous with French Cinema features some of the best films of the year, as well as highlights like Should the Wind Drop, Mandibles, and Faithful.
Women Directors
In honour of #52filmsbywomen, we've collected all of our reviews of films directed by women and interviews with female directors all in one place.
Berlinale Review: I’m Your Man — Are mirrors the perfect lovers?
In Maria Schrader’s I Am Your Man, a cuneiform researcher is torn between her ethics and the appeal of a robot lover who meets all her needs.
Berlinale Review: The long goodbyes of Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman
In Céline Sciamma’s fifth feature, Petite Maman, getting to know your mother is like chasing after a ghost.
‘I’m sick of poetic sex scenes’: Yngvild Sve Flikke and Kristine Thorp on Ninjababy
Writer-director Yngvild Sve Flikke and actress Kristine Thorp discuss their subversive pregnancy comedy, Ninjababy, one of the best of the Berlinale.
Danis Goulet on her Indigenous sci-fi thriller Night Raiders
Cree filmmaker Danis Goulet discusses her feature debut Night Raiders, which looks at motherhood and the horrors of residential schools through a sci-fi lens.
Ep. 81: In Their Own Words: Fiction Directors
We’ve gathered a panel of editors who worked on our new ebook, In their Own Words: Fiction Directors, to talk about what is in the book, how it was made, and why it’s so exciting.