The hope is that the new players this year can change the challenging indie landscape.
Nouvelle Vague (2025): Linklater’s Enchantingly Passionate Recreation of a Crucial Time and Place–Make of Godard’s “Breathless”
January 19, 2026 by
Linklater is working like a committed (borderline obsessed) director, making an enchanting movie, full of magic tricks, homages, and references, in the most positive and playful senses of these terms.
No Good Men: Afghan Director Shahrbanoo Sadat’s Romantic Comedy, Opening Nigt of 2026 Berlin Fest
January 16, 2026 by
Sadat was forced to flee the Afghan capital with her family in 2021 after Taliban ovrran the city.
Documentaries 2025: New York Film Fest
November 26, 2025 by
Wang Bing’s Youth (Homecoming) and Youth (Hard Times), both playing at NYFF, run over 6 hours.
London Film Fest 2025: Lucrecia Martel’s “Landmarks” (“Nuestra Tierra”) Wins Top Award
October 20, 2025 by
Landmarks is Argentinian Lucrecia Martel’s first feature documentary, a searing chronicle of the systemic theft of native land.
