The sole world premiere in NYFF’s main slate, Ulrich Köhler ’s Gavagai is yet another contribution to the movie-about-making-a-movie genre—which, granted, has been with us since the beginning of the ...

Filmmaker: With regard to the self-help tape that Mike [Frank Dillane’s character] listens to, Urchin might be a distant ...

If it’s true that the rich are getting richer faster than at any point in American history, then independent producers should ...

Begun as a scrappy response to the Maryland Film Festival cancelling its edition in 2023, New/Next held its third run in Baltimore from October 2 to 5 and has already announced that the festival will ...

Ken Jacobs wasn’t just a single (albeit huge) formative force in experimental film, but a river through which an array of streams flowed to their own artistic destinations. For New Yorkers, the ...

The first conversation I had in Busan was with a Malaysia-based genre film buyer who told me about the recent challenges of dealing with his adopted country’s famously rigid censor board while ...

Pin de Fartie (2025), directed by independent Argentinian collective El Pampero Cine member Alejo Moguillansky, is less an ...

Nominated for Best Director and Best Picture Academy Awards for his beautiful and incisive Moonlight, Barry Jenkins has long appeared in the pages of Filmmaker. He was a 25 New Face in 2008 and then, ...

Sentenced by the Iranian government in 2010 on spurious grounds to six years in prison, a punishment that came with a 20-year ban on making movies, Jafar Panahi immediately set about violating the ...