Both films center around women who are crippled by domesticity.
The festival is rich in contemplations of identity, tradition, and more that straddle the line between truth and fiction.
New Directors/New Films is practically a pu pu platter sampling of some of the more memorable titles you missed at Park City.
The series is an eclectic, geographically far-flung survey of rising filmmaking talent, rich in provocations big and small.
The films detour down stylistic back roads that yield new perspectives on the art/life divide.
It continues its commitment to bringing exciting new discoveries from around the world to NYC filmgoers.
This year’s edition of the premiere festival presents a slate as deep and diverse as any in recent memory.
The festival is committed to compiling a slate of artistically diverse films from every corner of the world.
A frothy fantasy dressed up as a quirky character study, Copacabana is a mishmash of mismatched parts that left me feeling a little queasy.
The kids are all right, but none of them has the charisma or self-confidence to hijack the meandering narrative.
The triumph of films like this is the triumph of cowardice, complacency, and stealth conformity.
Natalia Almada captures the rhythms of daily and nightly life in a Sinaloa cemetery in a quiet flow of images that gains power with surprising speed.
Where do collective memories come from? From faded photography, and skewed reviews?
Specific? Sure. But there’s nothing small about this deeply felt coming-of–age story.
Curling is a psychological study that refuses to go deeper than what the naked eye can detect.
Tyrannosaur never convincingly justifies its pessimistic gender-warfare worldview.
According to Chandor’s logic, most of these characters are blameless victims by the time Margin Call takes place.
The slate showcases a geographically and aesthetically diverse range of films by neophyte auteurs.
This year’s series offers up a comparably varied and geographically far flung group of pictures.
Every year, New Directors/New Films showcases the latest works from directors more or less new to the cine-block.