“White kids graduated into an industry, we graduated into a desert,” decries "Sankofa" (1993) director Haile Gerima in "Spirits of Rebellion", Zeinabu Irene Davis’s vital portrait of the LA Rebellion filmmaking collective, which was forged at UCLA. Spanning five decades of filmmaking here in the ...

When a loosely defined guerrilla art movement called No Wave coalesced in the gutted Lower East Side of the late 1970s and ’80s, Amos Poe, arguably the first punk filmmaker, was immediately identified as one of its leading lights. In the aftermath of his death on Christmas Day, 2025, this collect...

A diplomat’s son whose early years were divided between Chad, Guatemala, Mexico, and Paris, Ugo Bienvenu, who studied at Gobelins and CalArts, has developed a practice encompassing animation, illustration, music videos, commercial work, and graphic novels. His first animated feature, "Arco"—produ...

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...