Joachim Trier’s joyful The Worst Person in the World finds Julie in the midst of an existential crisis, bringing her inner thoughts to life.
World Cinema
Arsalan Amiri on making a realistic genre film, Zalava, in Iran
Writer-director Arsalan Amiri and co-writer Ida Panahandeh discuss their first foray into genre territory, Zalava, which won prizes at the Venice International Film Festival.
‘We are a nation of stories and poems’: Khadar Ayderus Ahmed on The Gravedigger’s Wife
Writer-director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed discusses making his feature debut, The Gravedigger’s Wife, a love story set in Djibouti City.
Good Madam review: A haunted house in post-Apartheid South Africa
In Jenna Cato Bass’s horror film, a Black family’s domestic servitude to a white family is the stuff of nightmares.
The Gravedigger’s Wife offers a touching slice of Somali life
The Gravedigger’s Wife follows a Somali gravedigger’s desperate search for funds to finance life-saving surgery for his wife. Read Orla Smith’s interview with the film’s director here In Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s first feature, The Gravedigger’s Wife, which premiered in Semaine de la Critique at Cannes, the great irony is that Guled (Omar Abdi) earns his […]
Une jeune fille qui va bien (A Radiant Girl) finds a new angle on life under fascism
Sandrine Kiberlain’s feature debut, Une jeune fille qui va bien (A Radiant Girl), is the story of an aspiring Parisian actress living under the Nazi occupation.