Tom Sachs’ studio and workshop in New York City is populated with golden plastic turtles, bagfuls of Yodas, vinyl records, and artists hard at work building spaceships (there’s a cat named Monkey too!) It’s a land of wonder for those who prefer their …Read more

After the unexpected death of his father, medical student Iddrisu (Jacob Ayanaba) is forced to return to his village in order to see that his family will survive. They live in the Ghanaian village of Nakom, which is also the name of the film by Kelly …Read more

Pablo Trapero’s The Clan is the answer to the American gangster movie. His film is not about the Ku Klux Klan, but the notorious Puccio family from Buenos Aires who kidnapped and killed people in the haze of post-Falklands War 80s. Arquimedes Puccio …Read more

Long before WikiLeaks, visible news story holes, contrary reports, debunking satire and a broad subsection of society began programming their own media, people had already grown accustomed to the manipulative handling of their psyches and opinions in …Read more

In the first scene of Ted Fendt’s Short Stay, we meet our tall, mumbling protagonist, Mike (Mike Maccherone).  Mike looks exactly like the kind of guy who one would find cleaning tables and answering phones at a pizza place in New Jersey, which is wh …Read more

There is little salt to balance out the sugar, yet the Sweet Bean remains delightful. A conventional tale about a few misfits teaching each other about life conforms to a certain narrative mold, but is elevated by Naomi Kawase’s delicate direction an …Read more

A woman performs CPR on an elderly man inches away from a live missile that could explode at any moment. This sort of visceral, real-world danger haunts every second of director Babak Anvari’s horror film Under the Shadow. Setting the film in Tehran …Read more

Emma Rozanski’s Papagajka, takes place in a quiet neighborhood in Sarajevo, where the mysterious Tasya (Susanna Cappellaro) appears one day, and subtly invades the life of the reclusive Damir (Adnan Omerovic). The film’s dreamlike quality and its dar …Read more

New Directors/New Films celebrates its 45th anniversary in 2016, with an impressive roster that includes films from Brazil, Mexico, China, Portugal, Japan, and the very first entry from Ghana to have played at the Berlin Film Festival. As usual, the …Read more

Artist Tom Sachs really loves space, the exploration of it, and the vessels that make such a thing possible. Sachs also loves DIY. Infatuated by the Apollo Project, his sculptures over the years have mimicked various lunar model parts to stellar effe …Read more