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, […]

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How does the process of grief help us understand a person better? Can we tell who a person was from the things they leave behind? These are some of the questions that director/co-writer Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme) and actor/co-writer Callie […]

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New Directors/New Films is coming back for its 54th edition. Since 1972, it has showcased work from the likes of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Kelly Reichardt, Pedro Almodóvar, Souleymane Cissé, Jia Zhangke, Spike Lee, Lynne Ramsay, Michael Haneke, Wong Kar-wai, […]

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Artist-turned-filmmaker Titus Kaphar examines how familial trauma impacts the artist’s soul in his emotional feature debut, Exhibiting Forgiveness. The semi-autobiographical drama, which premiered at this year’s Sundance, stars André Holland as a painter who’s forced to face his long-buried past […]

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The New Directors/New Films festival has just announced the lineup of new breakout films for its 53rd edition. The annual festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, will take place from April 3 to April 14 […]

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A selection at Cannes 2022, TIFF, BFI London, and New Directors/New Films, Youssef Chebbi’s modern-day noir Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation is finally making its way to U.S theaters next week. It stars Fatima Oussaifi, Mohamed Houcine Grayaa, and Aymen Ben […]

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Sundance breakout Mutt, a queer coming-of-age drama, is finally getting its release stateside this summer. It got an ecstatic audience reception at its world premiere, and showed that a star is born in Lio Mehiel who won the U.S. Dramatic […]

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One of the most early buzzed about films on the festival circuit is Carlos Conceição’s bold examination of war, Tommy Guns. With elements of Pedro Costa and Claire Denis’ Beau Travail, it highlights the fog of war through the eyes […]

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Writer-director Ricky D’Ambrose’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film The Cathedral is one of the most notable films that premiered at this year’s Sundance, as well as New Directors/New Films. A tale of a conflicting, struggling family seen through the eyes of a […]

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Listen to Me Marlon is a fantastic, creative and original insight into one of the greatest actors of all time, Marlon Brando

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