One of director Anna Fitch’s closest friends, Yo was adventurous, self-assured, and headstrong. Before Yo passed away in 2013, Fitch spent countless hours capturing memories and anecdotes of Yo’s colorful life. That documentation became a broader project through which Fitch processed her grief as she crafted a meticulous miniature recreation of the home where Yo […]
Agnès Varda’s new film, which not only won Venice’s Golden Lion but the awards of the international critics as well, has echoes of her earlier work, Cleo from 5 to 7 and also recalls Alain Tanner’s superb Messidor. Its central character, beautifully played by Sandrine Bonnaire, is a young drop-out who roams a wintry south […]
For photographer Kwame Brathwaite, the camera served as an instrument of love for his people. From capturing the mirth flowing through the streets of 1960s Harlem to following the Jackson […]
Academy Award®–winning director Daniel Roher (Navalny, Festival 2022) makes a striking leap into narrative filmmaking with this stylish, genre-bending thriller. Leo Woodall plays Niki, a meticulous piano tuner whose hypersensitive […]
An abandoned telephone booth calls out to 10-year-old Risa. After a tragic fire devastates their small town, residents take to calling the dead on an out-of-order telephone high atop a […]
Ambitious and emotionally potent, Cyril Aris’s drama explores one couple’s romantic travails with three tumultuous decades of Lebanese history as the backdrop. Since childhood, Nino and Yasmina have had a […]
Tangled networks spread through the forest floor, connecting plants, humans, and fungi in an inseparable web of coexistence. In the forests of Mexico, mycologists Eliseete and Julieta are working to […]
For over a decade, SFFILM mainstay Sam Green (Utopia in Four Movements, Festival 2010; 32 Sounds, Festival 2022) tenaciously documents the world’s oldest person, as determined by the Guinness Book […]
Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason faces an unthinkable task: composing the eulogy for Okjökull, the first glacier declared dead due to climate change. In Sara Dosa’s (Fire of Love, Festival […]
In the Polish seaside town of Łeba, a kingdom rests upon plates of smoked cod, mackerel, halibut, and salmon. The picturesque beaches are one tourist draw; the town’s smokehouse is […]
A yearling polar bear is smart enough to beat a bear trap, but is he wise enough to survive the world of humans? That is a question that hovers over this Sundance grand jury documentary prize winner that follows the animal between Churchill, Manitoba, and Arviat, Nunavut. The small communities depend on bears like the […]
On the cusp of the Covid-19 pandemic, Tony (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a Hong Kong neuroscientist conducting research at a German university, observes a botanical garden’s ancient gingko tree one lonesome and chilly evening. The mysterious arboreal entity enchants him, leading him to a synthesis between scientific pursuit and the beauty of nature. Tony is not […]
