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
Truth claims: the French-Senegalese filmmaker discusses the real-life roots of her fiction debut and what it means to embody universality in a Black woman
Independent spirit: artist and filmmaker Smith discusses Vogel’s legacy in relation to her own subversive work before sitting down for a conversation about her career with Jacqueline Stewart
It takes two: the Portuguese auteur discusses how his latest, an innuendo-filled sci-fi musical fantasy, parlays past injustices and present-day anxieties into a euphoric vision of the future
