Persistence of vision: critic Yasmina Price leads a panel conversation at the New York African Film Festival exploring legacy of the great filmmaker Safi Faye, who passed away in February
Riding high: Malcolm Harris, author of a history of Palo Alto, discusses the cinema of Northern California’s most disruptive region, from Muybridge’s animal locomotion studies to dot-com era techno thrillers
Fresh faces: Vadim Rizov and Beatrice Loayza join to discuss this year’s lineup of films by emerging directors, including Earth Mama, Safe Place, The Face of the Jellyfish, and more
Family time: the French actor and auteur discusses the autobiographical inspirations of his latest directorial venture and his father's Silver Bear–winning drama
Don’t look back: critics Giovanni Marchini Camia, Victor Guimarães, and Frédéric Jaeger join to discuss Angela Schanelec’s Music, Hong Sangsoo’s In Water, German cinema at the Berlinale, and much more
Earth, wind, and fire: Inney Prakash, Edo Choi, and Caitlin Quinlan join to discuss the festival's buzzy new premieres, including Tótem, Samsara, Afire, The Plough, and Allensworth
Dust in the wind: critics Antoine Thirion and Jean-Michel Frodon join to discuss Disco Boy, Manodrome, Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert, and more
Crystal clear: filmmakers Deborah Stratman, Mary Helena Clark, and Mike Gibisser join to discuss their new films, which premiered in the festival’s New Frontier section
Good golly: Miriam Bale and Abby Sun join to discuss Earth Mama, Past Lives, Little Richard: I Am Everything, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, and more
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