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The Gotham EDU Announces 2026 EDU Film and Media Career Development Program Cohort
The Gotham EDU Film and Media Career Development Program 2026 cohort
The Gotham, Filmmaker’s publisher, announces today the cohort of the 2026 edition of The Gotham EDU Film and Media Career Development Program. The eight-week virtual program will allow college students from across the country to glean insight from industry professionals… Read more
“I Hope They Boo”: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim Take Cannes
"Tim & Eric Made It 2 Cannes"
Laurel and Hardy, Martin and Lewis, Nichols and May… Tim and Eric. A double-act for the ages, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim first teamed up as students at Temple University in Philadelphia, and secured comedy-legend status with their chaotic-good surrealist… Read more
Taiwan International Doc Fest: The Island a Stage
Archive: Li Guang-hui (1979/2024)
In 1998, the Taiwan International Documentary Festival held its first edition, a decade after martial law was lifted in the island nation. It was a particularly exciting moment for documentary in Taiwan: independent video activism was on the rise, and… Read more
Bleak Week, C’est Chic
Come and See (1985)
The inaugural season of the American Cinematheque series Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair took place in 2022, a cheeky stab at some summertime counter-programming. Its diverse lineup was aimed, as per the Cinematheque’s website, at spotlighting “filmmakers who wholly embrace… Read more
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Cannes: Devils May Care
Cannes, while a real privilege to attend, is also a gauntlet—a marathon of viewing and socializing—and I’ve reached the point where my eyes have begun to droop and my head has started to throb. But there’s still work to be done! I’m here on behalf of the Asia Society, a global network of centers dedicated to deepening understanding between Asia and the rest of the world. We have a beautiful 258-seat theater at our museum building on the Upper East Side of New York, and my remit is to seek out new releases and repertory films that might eventually grace […]
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Cannes: Premium Diesel
It’s one of my closely held festival precepts that the odds of seeing a great film are much improved by making a beeline for the restorations and revivals. These are films that have endured beyond just one turn of the festival hamster wheel, their merits as art or artifact more or less established. Although a festival is first and foremost a showcase of things new and notable, sometimes the thought of enduring another two-plus hours of likely tepid drama is too much to countenance, and only a surefire prospect will do.That is why, despite the incredulity of my more seasoned […]
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Cannes Interview: Dominga Sotomayor on Her “Spontaneous and Liberating” La Perra
Dominga Sotomayor’s cinema is one of confined spaces. Her features tend to unfurl in tight, growingly claustrophobic settings. In her 2012 debut Thursday till Sunday, the action took place by and large inside a car en route to the beaches of northern Chile; her festival prizewinning breakout Too Late to Die Young (2018) never strayed beyond the confines of a bohemian commune at the dawn of the country’s post-Pinochet era; and her Netflix-produced Swim to Me (2025) zoomed in on an affluent villa in present-day Santiago. So it is for Sotomayor’s Cannes-premiering La Perra, a character study set on a […]
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Visions du Réel 2026: Utopian Futures
Crisp powder blue shirting, the shock of red wool, and a puff of a curly bob—Visions du Réel Artistic Director Emilie Bujès was everywhere at this year’s festival, whether on stage at Place du Réel, smiling as she greeted friends old and new, or grasping a karaoke mic with her staff. Just two weeks before the opening of the annual creative nonfiction festival in Nyon, Switzerland, Bujès announced that she was leaving her role to join the Geneva International Film Festival in August. Her final edition in charge leaves an indelible fingerprint on the landscape—this year, VdR felt more international […]
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Prismatic Ground 2026: Windows and Thresholds
In its sixth year, New York City’s Prismatic Ground festival doesn’t show any signs of rote predictability. Founder and programmer Inney Prakash has used the festival, which most recently took place from April 29 through May 3, to foreground global voices in the contemporary avant-garde. He likens his curatorial process to “conducting a piece of music or slaloming down a mountain,” but otherwise prefers to let the viewer parse threads and connections between the films he programs across four separate waves. It’s a galvanizing approach towards curation that remains surprising, generative, and ultimately grounding in a tumultuous moment for the […]
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Ritual of Care: Screening My Film Inside a Women’s Prison
I was told to wear black. Black is the safe choice. But today, I take a page from formerly incarcerated Sing Sing star Clarence Maclin, who was wearing a galaxy-themed graphic tee when I met him at the 2025 San Quentin Film Festival. My shirt is patterned vividly with dinosaurs and aliens in space. I am embracing my inner child, honoring that goofy kid who made movies in his tiny bedroom just east of East LA. This is my second time visiting prison, my first visiting a women’s prison, and I am on edge. Not because of the twenty-foot barbed-wire […]
