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March 21, 2019
Indian moviemaker Rima Das moved to Mumbai only to discover that for her, happiness and great art are found far…
January 18, 2019
The woman behind the The Wedding Ring, journalist-turned-moviemaker Rahmatou Keïta, tells us about Niger's first ever entry for the Best…
December 6, 2018
Director Radu Jude talks manipulated history and the ethics of depicting tragedy in I Do Not Care If We Go…
January 22, 2018
The Insult director Ziad Doueiri discusses his Hollywood influences, being shaped by war, and Beirut’s intrinsic sexiness. 
January 11, 2018
John Trengove, director of The Wound, discusses facing controversy, directing actors in a foreign language, and why casting Xhosa men…
February 13, 2017
A visually economical war film, Martin Zandvliet’s Academy Award-nominated Land of Mine finds poetry in the spareness of the desert…
January 26, 2017
Shahab Hosseini's work with director Asghar Farhadi on his latest film, The Salesman, is in service of the heady themes…
January 25, 2017
Oscar-winning writer-director Asghar Faradi talks about giving clues for viewers without stating the obvious, milking suspense and what "Iranian film"…
December 29, 2016
MovieMaker speaks with director Maren Ade and star Sandra Hüller about shooting key sequences in their acclaimed dramedy Toni Erdmann.
December 15, 2016
A grieving Romanian family struggle to hold the pieces of their life together in Cristi Puiu’s quiet-yet-monumental Sieranevada.
December 12, 2016
Blood spilling takes on a more honorable connotation in South Korean Kim Jee-woon’s newest confection, The Age of Shadows—an honor-fueled…
December 5, 2016
Previously known for his 2012 film No and 2015 film The Club, Pablo Larraín has sprung into the limelight this…
November 15, 2016
Our series Foreign Contenders features a talk with Rusudan Glurjidze, whose House of Others is Georgia's entry for the Best…
October 11, 2016
Andrzej Wajda, the powerhouse purveyor of Polish cinema with a celebrated knack for devastating depictions of war-torn Europe, passed away…
January 24, 2014
Gloria, Sebastián Lelio's feature about a spirited older woman determined to get the most out of life, raises questions about…
March 4, 2013
Every month, Interiors Journal dissects the floorplan of a film set to investigate the relationship between space and action. This
February 28, 2013
Two of the first things I saw in Kinshasa as we were comparing the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC…