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Exclusive Teaser: Isabel Sandoval’s Moonglow Closes First Look 2026
Isabel Sandoval directs Moonglow
Filmmaker is happy to share an exclusive teaser for Moonglow, the latest from Filipino filmmaker and actress Isabel Sandoval. Her follow-up to the acclaimed Lingua Franca (2019) will have its North American premiere at the Museum of the Moving Image… Read more
Short Film Premiere: “Afterimage” Explores Memories of Moviegoing in Ridgewood, Queens
Last week, Filmmaker published my Spring 2026 print issue report on the crop of communal cinema offerings in Ridgewood, Queens. There’s Low Cinema, co-founded by John Wilson and the first theater to open in the neighborhood in nearly 100 years;… Read more
Exclusive Clip: A Sibling Showdown in Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)
Filmmaker is thrilled to share an exclusive clip of Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo), which releases today in New York City via Oscilloscope. The debut feature from Bronx-bred filmmaker Joel Alfonso Vargas—who appeared on… Read more
Exclusive: Watch a Clip of the LAFM World Premiere Drinking and Driving
Drinking and Driving
Co-directors Avalon Fast and Jillian Frank co-star in Drinking and Driving, a lo-fi hangout film for the fuck-ups. Filmmaker is happy to share an exclusive clip of the film, which will have its world premiere at the Los Angeles Festival… Read more
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Trailer Premiere: Francesco Sossai’s The Last One for the Road
Filmmaker is happy to share the trailer premiere of Italian director Francesco Sossai’s second feature, The Last One for the Road. The film depicts the unlikely friendship between two alcoholic petty criminals, Carlobianchi (Sergio Romano) and Doriano (Pierpaolo Capovilla, One Dimensional Man bandmember in his film debut), and a soft-spoken architecture student named Giulio (Filippo Scotti). Loosely inspired by his the filmmaker’s own experience and rooted in his love for the northern Veneto region, The Last One for the Road premiered last year in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, where Leonardo Goi sat down with […]
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Watch: A Clip from NYFF Currents Selection “Bouchra”
Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki made Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces list in 2020 off their improbably delightful pandemic-set 2 Lizards, a viral web series in which the filmmakers, week by week, transposed the time’s various masking and social distancing rituals into an animal-centric parallel NYC. In our profile, Bennani teased a new work, saying, “There’s something we spontaneously found together in terms of an animation technique and a certain tone that could be developed into another project.” So, in other words, don’t call the duo’s debut feature, Bouchra, any kind of specific follow-up, even though, again, there are animals (the […]
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Watch: As IFC Center Turns 20, Joe Stankus’s Short Film, Marquee
New York’s IFC Center celebrates its 20th anniversary this week. Here, writer, director and projectionist Joe Stankus shares with Filmmaker a short film he made, shot by Ashley Connor, about the work that goes into the theater’s essential old-school touch: its non-digital marquee. Back in 2013 I was working as a projectionist at the IFC Center and was grappling with what seemed at the time like a moment of great change. Most cinemas had just finished the transition from 35mm exhibition to DCP, and there was no longer any doubt that the increasingly cheaper and more accessible digital cameras would […]
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Trailer Watch: “Kira Muratova: Scenographies of Chaos”
It’s been 20 years since Film at Lincoln Center’s last retrospective of Kira Muratova, in which time obviously much has changed: the filmmaker herself has since died, no prints will be in the projection mix this time and Muratova’s identity as a Ukrainian filmmaker (as opposed to a Soviet filmmaker primarily working in a Russian context) has become more prominent. The work, however, remains essential. Check out the trailer above and start investigating her work with 1971’s Long Goodbyes, arguably the great mother-son movie. The retrospective runs May 16 to 25, 2025; click here to learn more.
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Trailer Watch: Frederic Da’s isaiah’s phone
In 2021, we profiled Frederic Da as part of that year’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film on the strength of his debut feature, Teenage Emotions. This May, Da will premiere his sophomore follow-up, isaiah’s phone, at the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival. We’re pleased to premiere the trailer for the film, whose festival synopsis is: “A socially awkward high school student films himself as he blunders through attempts to make friends, spiralling into a dark place where his only close relationship is with his phone.”
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Trailer Watch: “Mikio Naruse: The World Betrays Us”
Japan Society and Metrograph will co-present Mikio Naruse: The World Betrays Us, a 30-film retrospective devoted to Naruse, the “fourth great” master of Japanese cinema, from May 9th through June 29th. Co-organized with The Japan Foundation, New York, the two-part series will offer the first major New York survey of this signal studio-era filmmaker’s work in 20 years, presented in commemoration of the 120th anniversary of his birth and entirely on rare prints imported from collections and archives in Japan. Notable series highlights include all six of Naruse’s adaptations of celebrated feminist author Fumiko Hayashi’s work (Floating Clouds, Repast, Lightning, […]
