Reflections on the 2025 Tailinn Black Nights Film Festival
A recounting of time spent at the Estonian film festival.
Festivals & Awards
No Good Deed Will Go Unpunished: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura on “The Secret Agent”
We speak to the writer/director and star of this year’s Cannes favorite about censorship, artistic collaboration, and more.
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Demon Pond” and Japanese Yokai Culture
Our final dispatch from the fest is full of monsters, folktales, and ghost stories.
It’s The Funniest Shit: Hikari on ‘Rental Family’
An interview with the writer/director of “Rental Family.”
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: Mamoru Oshii on “Angel’s Egg”
An interview with a legend about his resurrected project.
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Mother Bhumi,” “Morte Cucina,” “We Are the Fruits of the First,” “Tunnels: Sun in the Dark”
Three more films from the Tokyo Film Festival
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: Journey into Sato Tadao
We talk to Japan’s preeminent film critic as a documentary about him premieres at Tokyo’s premier festival.
A Preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival
A preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival.
Criterion Mobile Closet Steered Through Chicago International Film Festival Amid An Intense Political Weekend
A report on the Criterion Mobile Closet’s visit to Chicago.
CIFF 2025: One Golden Summer, Before the Call, Adult Children, Only Heaven Knows
On four Chicago productions from this year’s fest.
CIFF 2025: The Book of Sijjin & Illiyyin, The Holy Boy, Anything That Moves
On three films from this year’s After Dark program in Chicago.
CIFF 2025: True North, Pasa Faho, Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
On three films from Chicago’s Black Perspectives program.
CIFF 2025: The Beauty of the Donkey, The Eyes of Ghana, Below the Clouds
On three ambitious documentaries from this year’s Chicago film festival.
CIFF 2025: “Wind, Talk to Me,” “Brand New Landscape,” “The Girl in the Snow”
On three projects from new directors at the Chicago International Film Festival.
CIFF 2025: Silent Friend, Calle Malaga, Belén
On three of this year’s international dramas from the Chicago International Film Festival.
CIFF 2025: The Stranger, Franz, Kontinental ’25
On new films from three international masters: Ozon, Holland, and Jude.
NYFF 25: The Currents, Gavagai, Is This Thing On?
On three films from NYFF, including the latest from Bradley Cooper.
NYFF 2025: The 63rd Edition Comes to a Close
A look back at this year’s event, including detailed thoughts on Jafar Panahi’s latest from the expert in Iranian cinema.
