Group chat: Phoebe Chen, Molly Haskell, and Kelli Weston join to discuss highlights and lowlights from the festival that was, including TÁR, Saint Omer, Master Gardener and more
Through the looking glass: Jafar Panahi’s No Bears offers a timely story about the real and imagined borders—national, social, religious—that constrict the freedoms of Iranians
Multi-tasking: Edward Yang’s 1994 ensemble piece, A Confucian Confusion, wryly weaves references to the ancient philosophy into a relentlessly busy big-city network narrative
Tick-tock: the Swiss director discusses his anti-nostalgic approach to historical narrative, summoning an everyday sense of the past, and the central place of objects in his film, Unrest
Distancing effects: NYFF filmmakers Laura Poitras, Elvis Mitchell, and Tiffany Sia join for a special live talk on the ways in which critique allows us to imagine and work toward alternative and better realities
The home and the world: the Iraqi-French director discusses his latest work of docufiction, a simultaneously personal and panoramic portrait of a Lebanon roiled by the pandemic and political crises
