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Rade Serbedzija’s first film as a director, The Liberation of Skopje, is Macedonia’s entry in this year’s race. It would be the country’s second nomination.
Blood spilling takes on a more honorable connotation in South Korean Kim Jee-woon’s newest confection, The Age of Shadows—an honor-fueled period piece.
Visionary Belgian moviemaker, Jaco Van Dormael has created a vision of the Lord that is both hilarious and decidedly unflattering in The Brand New Testament
Roman Bondarchuk set out to make a film, Ukrainian Sheriffs, about Stara Zburievka, a curious town near the disputed area of Crimea.
In Lorenzo Vigas’ From Afar, actors Alfredo Castro and Luis Silva portray lovers in a story of fatherhood, homophobia and economic inequality in Venezuela.
Rúnar Rúnarsson’s characters in Sparrows are unquestionably Icelandic, though they never compromise the universality of their experiences as human beings.
Brillante Mendoza’s Ma’Rosa centers on a mother-turned-criminal, addressing social difficulties deeply ingrained in the Southwest Asian nation.
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki focuses on a specific chapter in the career of a real-life boxer from Kuosmanen’s hometown of Kokkola.
Good fortune and strategic diligence. Those, say iconic actress Isabelle Huppert, are the key ingredients to a long, enviable career.
Our series Foreign Contenders features a talk with Rusudan Glurjidze, whose House of Others is Georgia’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival has remained a standout of the Southern circuit for 25 years, as Arkansas’ premier film event.
Ron Diamond’s The Animation Show of Shows is a collection of the best animated shorts of that year, released by Acme Filmworks.
The New York Film Festival is an elegant affair, one that reassures that movies aren’t dead and that cinema never stops evolving.
With The Handmaiden, his latest trip into the of madness of love, Park Chan-wook has constructed what is perhaps his most perfectly achieved tale.
Cinematographer Elliot Davis, editor Steven Rosenblum and director/star Nate Parker discuss their collaborative process on The Birth of a Nation.
In Elite Zexer’s debut feature, Sand Storm, the generational effects of ancient gender bias in an Israeli Bedouin community are subtly exposed.
“Hamsters and Magical Realism and Body Horror:” Stephen Dunn on His Impressive Debut, Closet Monster
The construct of young manhood and the archetypes that aim to define it are intimately challenged in Stephen Dunn’s Closet Monster.
Sasha Lane, 20 year old, first-time actress, gives her take on American Honey, the Cannes-winning feature by English auteur Andrea Arnold.
Co-directors of The Lovers and the Despot, Ross Adam and Robert Cannan, discuss humanizing Kim Jong-il in their doc about a cinephilia-driven kidnapping.
In Philippe Faucon’s Fatima, which won the César Award for Best Picture earlier this year, the human need for expression is truncated by a language barrier.
MovieMaker speaks with Demon producer Olga Szymanskaproducer on the film’s vision of horror that both disturbs and explores dark passages of Polish history.
Pantelion enlisted Mexican pop band Reik to compose the theme song for No Manches Frida and to participate in its culminating sequence.
Writer-director Robert Greene tells MovieMaker how he made performance his most valuable tool in his documentary-thriller hybrid, Kate Plays Christine.
Travis Knight, CEO of the animation factory Laika, speaks with MovieMaker about his directorial debut, Kubo and the Two Strings.
