Awarded Best Director at Cannes 2025 for "The Secret Agent", Kleber Mendonça Filho grew up religiously attending the cinemas that then dotted the old center of Recife, Brazil’s northernmost metropolis. His body of work displays a deep affection for the codes of popular genre cinema alongside a wi...

Though variegated in style—from paper cut-out reveries to vérité documentary—the shorts in this selection are united beyond just their Christmastime setting: each one is artfully constructed and inventive in its execution, and exudes a joyful warmth befitting of the season. Among the films’ maker...

Coined in 1970 by the Polish critic Janusz Gazda, the term “Ukrainian poetic cinema” was used to group the work of several burgeoning Ukrainian filmmakers who had shaken off the long-dominant mandates of “socialist realism”—as outlined by cultural commissars dictating terms from Moscow—to instead...

“Since its debut in 1998, Filmmaker’s 25 New Faces list has annually curated a cross-section of emerging and impressive new independent film talent. Directors, writers, actors, below-the-line—these are filmmakers who have made indelible work in the past year and will go on to shape tomorrow’s fil...