The latest film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne left me speechless.
One of the many simple conceits of Elia Suleiman’s film is the way in which one man’s silence becomes a metaphor for an entire nation’s.
For the next two weeks BAMcinématek will be showing the World Cinema Foundation’s restorations.
Conner was a “fuck this” artist, not just for savage cultural criticism lightly guised as celebration.
Despite the title date, the bulk of this installment’s films were made within the past decade.
Who ever knew Kevin Youkilis was Jewish? Who ever even thought to ask?
Abu Dhabi is a city that paints a big smile for tourists, and one that exists where and as you care to see it.
Peter Scarlet is the Executive Director of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
You couldn’t walk through this year’s Abu Dhabi Film Festival without bumping nose-first into politics.
What we talk about when we talk about Palestine often isn’t the landmass.
In a Better World exposes conflicts between cultures, countries, classes, and cohorts, and then promptly resolves them all.
For Abbas Kiarostami, anything that can be filmed is cinema, and even anything that can be photographed.
What does it take to become an executioner?
Stars drop in and out with great frequency at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
You can assess a film festival’s attitude on cinema by its repertory choices.
Think Global, Act Local knocks you dizzy.
We came for the fourth annual Abu Dhabi Film Festival, with over 170 films, and like the city, the lineup extends multiculturally
The dominant impression from this year’s Views from the Avant-Garde is that video artists are still figuring out what to do.
Aaron Cutler, Kenji Fujishima, and Elise Nakhnikian share their thoughts via email about this year’s festival.
Film usually reveals itself to audiences with splices and scratches, while Eastwood has shown how DV printing and projection can look pristine.