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For 15 years, Shoplifters director Hirokazu Kore-eda has elicited unfeigned performances from children using methods tested over several feature films.
Moviemaking is like cooking, and with his new film The Cakemaker, Israeli director Ofir Raul Grazier has discovered a winning ingredient combination.
To guide you as you decide what to watch during the eight-day event, we’ve put together a list of 10 unmissable features at AFI Fest 2018 (November 8-15).
Moviemaker Ramón Salazar told us about his familial drama Sunday’s Illness (La enfermedad del domingo), how the film forged his newfound working relationship with Netflix, and more.
Jeremiah Zagar’s debut fiction feature We the Animals follows three rowdy brothers growing up in 1980s New York with two emotionally unstable parents.
A brooding atmosphere envelops every frame of Night Comes On, the Sundance award-winning debut feature by actor-turned-director Jordana Spiro.
Carlos López Estrada, Daveed Diggs, and Rafael Casal look at contemporary America through outsiders’ eyes in Blindspotting. The moviemaking trio told us about journeying from DIY music videos to their acclaimed first feature.
Joining forces with doc moviemaker Don Argott, Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds leveraged his status as a widely acclaimed, high-visibility Mormon entertainer to produce Believer, a film that aims to change the Mormon church’s treatment of its LGBT members.
Stemming from true events in her childhood, Carla Simón’s Summer 1993 is a delicate, accomplished debut feature and was selected as Spain’s Oscar entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category last year.
If the state of nonfiction storytelling today could be summarized in a single phrase, it would the title of a moviemaker panel at the 2018 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival: “Documentary in the Time of Fake News.”
Puerto Rican prodigy Miguel Arteta’s latest feature, Duck Butter, flaunts Alia Shawkat’s strengths with a concept that demanded ample emotional intelligence and adaptability from its actors.
Armed with a six person crew, limited equipment, a cast of non-actors, and a sweeping terrain, director Chloé Zhao’s The Rider tells the story of a South Dakota cowboy adrift in the sorrow of his recovery from a grave injury.
French director Arnaud Desplechin’s charmingly self-referential body of work is an ode to the beautiful and often regrettable mishaps of youth, and how they reverberate throughout his characters’ lives.
Kaouther Ben Hania’s Beauty and the Dogs is an unmissable feature that’s as empowering as it is harrowing. Here, the Tunisian director shares how she created the film’s narrative with just nine delicately choreographed long takes.
An elegant ode to fading dreams and the possibility of second chances, director Bavo Defurne’s sophomore feature Souvenir channels Eurovision glamour into an unlikely romance.
While on the 2018 Independent Spirit Awards’ blue carpet, Agnès Varda, Ana Asensio, Justin Chon and other ace indie helmers told us the most valuable lessons they learned while making their nominated films.
The 20th edition of Memphis’ annual independent film festival celebrated the city’s legendary cultural roots, while bringing to the screen some of the most exciting indie releases the year had to offer.
With Foxtrot, Israeli auteur Samuel Maoz—a former tank gunner turned Golden Lion-winner—crafts sensorial cinema about trauma.
Though German directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer used CG for their newest animated creation, “Revolting Rhymes,” they were able to infuse new life and original sensibilities into one of famed author Road Dahl’s hidden treasures.
Early Man director Nick Park sat down with MovieMaker to hammer out some thoughts on how stop-motion changed his previous feature, how Brexit almost forced him to change a character’s voice, and the universality of sports.
Babis Makridis premiered Pity, his second feature length film, this year at Sundance, establishing himself as an auteur to watch in the dynamic Greek film scene. MovieMaker sat down with the writer/director at Sundance to discuss the controversial “Greek Weird Wave,” his new film, and much more.
Paul Thomas Anderson, Guillermo del Toro, Greta Gerwig, Christopher Nolan, and Jordan Peele got candid about the making of their Academy Award-nominated films at the 33rd Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
We sat down with Sebastián Lelio to scrutinize some of the less talked-about elements that make A Fantastic Woman, his Berlin-winning, Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated tour de force so irresistible and affecting.
Director Damon Cardasis talks scheduling nine-hour days to abide by regulations regarding young talent, weathering bad weather, and writing lyrics for the first time to make Saturday Church.
