A camera can be used to document the world but it can also be a mirror or a microscope, even a time machine. In this selection of up-close-and-personal works, filmmakers turn their cameras on themselves, their friends, or their family members, often in search of connection across generations, or ...

“We started working together as an experiment,” says Anupama Srinivasan, reflecting on two decades of partnership—which has yielded a long-gestating pair of closely observed studies, both hypnotic and subtle. It began with a recognition of the fact that making films predicated on forging a deep c...

Óliver Laxe has been admired by those with an interest in the mystical side of cinema and the curious compounds created through intermixing documentary and fiction since the appearance of "You Are All Captains" (2010), his feature debut, made in collaboration with students at a filmmaking worksho...

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...