The Overlanders

Hester Baer is a professor of German and cinema and media studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has written widely on German film.

Brian Belovarac is the manager of repertory distribution at Janus Films and has curated screening series and programs at venues including Anthology Film Archives, Light Industry, and Northwest Film Forum.

Kadish Morris is a journalist and arts critic at the Observer. She also writes for the New York Times, the Guardian, Frieze, ArtReview, and the Financial Times. Her essays have been published in books by Phaidon and Taschen. She is...

Amina Cain is the author, most recently, of A Horse at Night: On Writing and the novel Indelicacy. Her second novel, My New Face, will be published next year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She lives in Los Angeles.

Gaetano Kazuo Maida is a filmmaker and serves as executive director of the nonprofit Buddhist Film Foundation, which produces the International Buddhist Film Festival and Buddhist Film Channel. He was a founding director of the U.S. Buddhist quarterly Tricycle.

Robert Rubsam writes fiction and nonfiction. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Baffler, the Atlantic, the Paris Review, Poetry, Vulture, and MUBI Notebook.

Genevieve Yue is an associate professor of culture and media at the New School and the author of Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality (2020) and Trains (due out in fall 2026).

Lynn Anthony Higgins is the Edward Tuck Professor Emerita of French Studies at Dartmouth College, where she is also affiliated with the Film & Media Studies Department. She is the author of Bertrand Tavernier (in Manchester University Press’s French Film...

Murtada Elfadl is a culture writer, critic, and film curator. Born and raised in Khartoum, Sudan he currently resides in New York. His work has appeared in Variety, SEEN , and the A.V. Club, among other publications. He is a...

Joachim Trier is a Norwegian Danish filmmaker. He is a multiple-time Oscar nominee and the winner of Norway’s first Academy Award for a fiction feature film, as well as its first BAFTA award, Golden Globe, and Cannes Film Festival Grand...