Apr 21, 2023 — A. V. Rockwell is an award-winning screenwriter and director. Named one of Filmmaker magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” she has been celebrated for addressing issues of race, identity, and systemic oppression with her distinctive voice. Rockwell’s debut feature...

Oct 25, 2023 — What, awards season already? All of Us Strangers leads with four, followed by Past Lives and A Thousand and One, with three each.

Jul 1, 2026 — BAM’s thirteen-film series dips into chapters of American history that tend to get overlooked on Fourth of July weekends.

Dec 6, 2023 — American Fiction, May December, and Past Lives lead with five each, and Showing Up has already won the Robert Altman Award.

Nov 28, 2023 — Past Lives came out on top in New York, while Stonewalling triumphed in Taipei.

Nov 10, 2023 — Black mothers’ stories come around again, Matt Wolf probes the archives, and Lizzie Borden conjures the streets of mid-1980s New York.

Jun 27, 2023 — Along with revivals and fresh experimental work, the festival presents some of the best films of the year so far.

Mar 10, 2020 — In the fall of 1966, an unusual proposal reached the desk of Melbourne I. Feltman, vice president of Consolidated Book Publishers in Chicago. In a letter dated October 24, sent from the Maysles Films office in Midtown Manhattan, David Maysles...

Feb 28, 2025 — We’ve gathered some of the best writing on each of the nominees for Best Picture Oscar.

Jan 30, 2023 — The festival is sending around two dozen award-winners out into an uncertain marketplace.