Few filmmakers have risked as much in the name of their art as Jafar Panahi, who has continued to make films of immense resourcefulness and humanism, and often humor too, despite the 20-year filmmaking ban imposed on him by the Iranian government, plus travel bans and the recurring threat of impr...

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...

Leaving June 1

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 cinem...

This pair of exquisitely allusive portraits shows the Argentine master reckoning with denial and failure. Martel’s psychological study in culpability, The Headless Woman, plumbs the depths of human nature, as well as questions of class, race, and Argentine identity. In her hugely acclaimed follow...