Devika Girish

Double vision: how long can we maintain the ruse of championing artistic freedom and civil liberties in cinemas surrounded by hundreds of cops and A.I.-powered cameras and staffed by underpaid workers?

Crossing the rubicon: the Italian filmmaker discusses his new Civil War–era period movie, which both restages a moment in America’s past and documents present-day Americans reflecting on the process of nation-making

Going home: Carol Mansour's documentary is a heist of sorts, depicting the ways in which exiled Palestinians, denied the right of return, keep their heritage alive

Relax and repeat: this year’s recipient of FLC’s Chaplin Award discusses his iconic movies—and how he ended up in them often in spite of himself

Dirty work: Alice Rohrwacher’s La chimera unearths the contradictions at the heart of a brittle society where culture is yet another arena in which the wealthy exploit the poor

Together and apart: the two directors discuss the making of their award-winning documentary, their transition from journalism to cinema, and finding the right balance between images of incontrovertible violence with those of resilience and life

Great expectations: the Romanian filmmaker discusses his madcap latest, an unpredictable, funny, crass, and erudite that speaks to a wide variety of concerns—totalitarianism, neoliberalism, and the corrosive role of media—with extraordinary verve

Walkin‘ the talk: at this year's Berlinale, strikes and protests exposed a crisis of agency for art workers

Alone again or: the French auteur discusses his Berlinale standout Suspended Time, his most direct foray yet into autofiction

Truth and consequences: three notable nonfiction titles from this year's Sundance stood out from the lineup: the Richard Linklater–directed first episode of the documentary trilogy God Save Texas; War Game; and Union

Let's get physical: the narrative highlights of this year's festival included Kneecap, A Different Man, Handling the Undead, and more

Crossing lines: one sequence captures, through the language of cinema, something fundamental about the banal violence of borders and bureaucracy

Here and elsewhere: the philosopher-turned-filmmaker joins for a conversation about the making of his debut film, which explodes conventions of biography and nonfiction for a uniquely collective portrait of trans life

Spit take: a collection of newly restored shorts from the Sudanese Film Group strain against the didactic dictates of a state-sanctioned national cinema

Throughlines: the German actor, known for his extraordinary physicality, discusses his inspirations and his firecracker performance in Ira Sachs’s new film, Passages

Girl talk: the director of the ultra-pink blockbuster discusses imbuing inanimate objects with feeling, balancing cynicism and care, and, of course, irrepressible thoughts of death

Lush life: the director discusses her debut feature, the particularities of portraying Black motherhood, how she eschewed social-realist tropes, and what her (many nonprofessional) actors taught her about empathy

Perspective shift: history was retold and resold at this year’s Cannes, in films like Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, Lisandro Alonso's Eureka, Alice Rohrwacher's La chimera, and others

Sewed up tight: the Cameroonian filmmaker discusses her first narrative feature, a standout selection of this year’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar

Historical material: the Oscar-winning director discusses his epic new doc, an early highlight of this year’s festival