DOC NYC has announced the 2026 lineup for its influential Short List and Winner's Circle sections. The festival will be held ...

William Greaves feels like a fictional character, hatched in the mind of an African-American writer who contributes regularly to the New Yorker. It almost strains credulity that someone can manage to ...

Impressively ambitious in scope, Josh Fox’s humbly titled The Welcome Table finds the environmental activist-filmmaker-writer ...

Coming from a rapturous premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (and the highest rating on Ioncinema’s international critics grid), Sirāt has already been nominated for 2 Golden Globes for best Foreign ...

Few American filmmakers have shown as consistent a dedication to portraying marginalized communities with dignity and complexity as Sean Baker. From his early collaboration with Shih-Ching Tsou on ...

The first round of the lineup for the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival is finally here! The festival is scheduled to run in Austin, Texas from March 7 through 14. It will have 96 features in total, ...

Myrsini Aristidou is a Cypriot filmmaker born and raised in Limassol. She holds a BFA in Film and Art History from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Film Directing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and ...

Pleasure, one of the most provocative films of Sundance 2021 finally makes its theatrical debut from Neon this spring. The film follows Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel), “fresh off the plane” from Sweden ...

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At its heart, D. Smith’s 2023 Sundance-winning (NEXT Innovator Award and NEXT Audience Award) Kokomo City is a music-laden, kaleidoscopically-edited series of raw monologues from four defiantly ...

Norwegian filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud is one of his country’s most influential directors and writers, having won numerous Amanda Awards and international recognition for films like I Belong and ...

Seymour Hersh has spent six decades doing what few journalists dare: telling the American public what its government desperately wants to keep hidden. From his Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé of the Mỹ ...