Director Fergus Campbell just premiered Sparks, his debut feature film, at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival (where I reviewed it). The movie stars Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade) as Cleo, a young woman out of time and out of place. Obsessed

Throughout its five-decade run, New Directors/New Films has introduced the works of many of today’s notable auteurs, including Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Wong Kar-Wai, Pedro Almodóvar, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Joachim Trier, Kelly Reichardt, Denis Villeneuve, Michael Haneke, Luca Guadagnino, Richard Linklater,

Get ready for the next wave of buzzworthy new cinema of 2026. The Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 79th edition, which will take place May 12 through 23. The films are divided into sections, from the

Director Fergus Campbell just premiered Sparks, his debut feature film, at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival (where I reviewed it). The movie stars Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade) as Cleo, a young woman out of time and out of place. Obsessed

The debut feature from screenwriter Aidan West and director Gloria Mercer, A Safe Distance just premiered at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival (where I reviewed it). In the movie, we follow the increasingly wild adventures of a young

Union County is a drama about the opioid epidemic that does something rare: it focuses on recovery rather than despair. Writer-director Adam Meeks's feature debut follows Cody Parsons (Will Poulter), a young man in rural Ohio navigating a county-mandated drug

Get ready for the next wave of buzzworthy new cinema of 2026. The Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 79th edition, which will take place May 12 through 23. The films are divided into sections, from the

One indie drama that made waves following its premieres at the 2025 Edinburgh International Film Festival and NewFest was writer-director Elliot Tuttle's Blue Film. While screening to much acclaim, Tuttle's feature debut has also garnered controversy over its provocative and

In 2022, a then-16-year-old Kane Parsons (aka Kane Pixels) introduced the world to his creepypasta, found-footage web series Backrooms, which drew tens of millions of viewers and followers on YouTube over the next few years. Now, the 20-year-old director has