Winner of the Golden Leopard at last year’s Locarno International Film Festival, writer-director Sho Miyake’s Two Seasons, Two Strangers is a tender, tranquil drama that explores the burgeoning bonds between two pairs of introverted people in two different segments. Based […]

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Filmmaker Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme, The American Sector) blurs fiction and autobiographical nonfiction in her newest 16mm feature, Invention. It stars Callie Hernandez (who co-wrote the script with Stephens) as a woman who returns to her hometown following the passing […]

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Ryan J. Sloan’s directorial debut Gazer is a gritty fever dream filmed in 16mm. The psychological neo-noir, which premiered at Cannes Directors Fortnight, stars Ariella Mastroianni – who co-wrote and produced the film with Sloan – as a single mother […]

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Premiering in the Un Certain Regard section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival to wide acclaim, writer-director Sandhya Suri makes her feature debut with a new kind of police procedural. Santosh follows the titular protagonist (played by Shahana Goswami), a […]

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After being mentored by modern-day indie icons Chloe Zhao and Sean Baker, first-time filmmaker Hannah Peterson is ready to make her mark with her emotional and compassionate drama, The Graduates, which shows life in the aftermath of a terrible tragedy. […]

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Indie icon Crystal Moselle (Stake Kitchen; The Wolfpack) is once again blurring the line between fiction and documentary. She teams up with actor/rapper Derrick B. Harden to co-direct The Black Sea, a new cinema verité-like feature about a life turned […]

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After making one of the most innovative animated films with the Oscar-nominated I Lost My Body, Jérémy Clapin returns with his live-action debut that is just as imaginative, but with more chills. Meanwhile On Earth stars newcomer Megan Northam as […]

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Beloved by critics and festival goers all over, writer-director India Donaldson’s feature debut Good One is, without a doubt, one of the most anticipated movies of the summer. The only film to screen at both Sundance and Cannes this year, […]

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If you found yourself canceling all your subscriptions to certain streaming services lately, that doesn’t mean you have to devoid yourselves of outstanding films of the past and present. So if you’re looking to expand your palette with more independent […]

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Taiwanese master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien is known for his elegant, intoxicating dramas that conjure a lot of visual poetry, such as Daughter of the Nile, Flowers of Shanghai, Three Times, and the wuxia stunner The Assassin. Now, his underseen dreamlike […]

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