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Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts is an Indonesian take on the classic tropes popularized by spaghetti westerns, adapted to…
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…
The Insult director Ziad Doueiri discusses his Hollywood influences, being shaped by war, and Beirut’s intrinsic sexiness.Â
John Trengove, director of The Wound, discusses facing controversy, directing actors in a foreign language, and why casting Xhosa men…
Ildikó Enyedi, writer-director of 2018 Best Foreign Language Film contender On Body and Soul, discusses Eastern European cinema, shooting with…
With Under the Tree, Icelandic Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson has mastered the improbable formula to produce amalgamations of universality with specificity.
A visually economical war film, Martin Zandvliet’s Academy Award-nominated Land of Mine finds poetry in the spareness of the desert…
A grieving Romanian family struggle to hold the pieces of their life together in Cristi Puiu’s quiet-yet-monumental Sieranevada.
Rade Serbedzija's first film as a director, The Liberation of Skopje, is Macedonia's entry in this year's race. It would…
Blood spilling takes on a more honorable connotation in South Korean Kim Jee-woon’s newest confection, The Age of Shadows—an honor-fueled…
Roman Bondarchuk set out to make a film, Ukrainian Sheriffs, about Stara Zburievka, a curious town near the disputed area…
In Lorenzo Vigas' From Afar, actors Alfredo Castro and Luis Silva portray lovers in a story of fatherhood, homophobia and…
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…
Our series Foreign Contenders features a talk with Rusudan Glurjidze, whose House of Others is Georgia's entry for the Best…