Festivals

Golden hour: this year’s reimagined edition was invigorated by a selection of archival Palestinian shorts and gems such as A Grasscutter’s Tale and The Soldier’s Lagoon

New day rising: Vadim Rizov and Alissa Wilkinson join to discuss this year's lineup of movies by emerging filmmakers

Looking back: at the annual nonfiction showcase in Columbia, Missouri, the standout films all reanimated lost or repressed pasts and offered galvanizing visions of the future

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

Who shall say is calling?: our final podcast from this year’s festival covers prizewinners Direct Action and Who By Fire, and more

The final frontier: the French director discusses his latest, The Empire, which polarized critics at the 2024 Berlinale with its blend of doofy Star Wars references and ambitious formal finesse

Smoke gets in your eyes: this year's edition included titles like Direct Action, exergue – on documenta 14, Favoriten, and Dahomey, all of which probe, in very different ways, the responsibilities of civic and cultural institutions

Alles gut: Ela Bittencourt and Frédéric Jaeger join to discuss German cinema at this year’s edition, along with films made by women, including Helke Sander, Christine Angot, Eva Trobisch, and others

Translation problem: Jonathan Ali, Frédéric Jaeger, and Antoine Thirion to talk about Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias’s Pepe, Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs, Victor Kossakovsky’s Architecton, and more

Reading history: this year's edition tips the scales toward ideas about documentation and bearing witness with films like Mati Diop’s Dahomey, Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs, and Victor Kossakovsky’s Architecton