Director Ira Sachs has found his greatest inspirations from cinema outside of the US. With filmmakers like Éric Rohmer, Yasujirō…
Armed with a master’s degree and memberships to the Ukranian and European Film Academies, Nairman Aliev now represents his native…
Xavier Dolan is no stranger to the Cannes Film Festival. As the director of eight feature films (most of which…
Eight years after Poetry, Lee Chang-dong premiered Burning in the Cannes Film Festival’s main competition section. Based on the short story…
Presented in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, Nandita Das' biopic, Manto, follows the most tumultuous years in the…
Continuing to explore her interest in lost souls, found elsewhere in her films The Holy Girl (2004) and The Headless Woman (2008),…
Fatih Akin’s Cannes hit In the Fade was recently shortlisted as one of nine finalists in the Best Foreign Language…
Angels Wear White is the second work by Chinese writer-director Vivian Qu—a modern-day noir that tells the story of two…
Olivier Assayas' Personal Shopper is an attempt to evaluate cinema's potential to represent and reflect upon the invisible. For the…
Asghar Farhadi’s newest film The Salesman recently won prizes at Cannes for both Farhadi’s screenplay and for Shahab Hosseini’s lead performance. The…
Breaking new ground with a psychological rape-revenge thriller, says Paul Verhoeven, "inspires a certain kind of fear"—especially one that many denounced as…