It’s a Free World

Sep 8, 2025 — Father Mother Sister Brother and The Voice of Hind Rajab win top awards in Venice.

Aug 19, 2025 — This month’s programming celebrates the centenary of the great American filmmaker Robert Altman, the career of Oscar-winning actor Jodie Foster, and much more.

Aug 12, 2025 — This remarkably sensitive yet jarringly violent romance epitomizes director Youssef Chahine’s late-fifties hybrid style, which combined elements of Hollywood entertainment with an unmistakably Egyptian spirit.

Jul 9, 2025 — New films by Radu Jude, Fabrice Aragno, Alexandre Koberidze, and Ben Rivers are slated to compete for the Golden Leopard.

Apr 17, 2025 — At eighty-two, the director has made his most deeply personal film yet.

Mar 3, 2025 — Sean Baker’s eighth feature wins five top Academy Awards.

Dec 16, 2024 — Next year’s programming kicks off with some of our favorite actors, including Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, and David Bowie.

Jul 23, 2024 — Unlike the string of early-1980s sex comedies that it superficially resembles, Paul Brickman’s debut feature fuses fierce social satire and dark, dreamy eroticism with unexpectedly rich and ambiguous results.

Jul 19, 2024 — We’re looking back to films by Pakula and Oshima, and from the 1990s, by Claire Denis and Richard Shepard.

May 20, 2024 — The cinematographer has reunited with Andrea Arnold for Bird and with Yorgos Lanthimos on Kinds of Kindness.