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Festivals

Dispatch: Rotterdam 2020

By Jordan Cronk
February 18, 2020
Send in the clouds: the latest edition featured arguably the strongest competition of the past five years

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2020 #7

By Nicolas Rapold
February 5, 2020
Grand slam: Manohla Dargis and Amy Taubin join for our Sundance wrap-up to discuss Minari, On the Record, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, and more

Sundance Dispatch: This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

By Devika Girish
February 3, 2020
The great flood: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's Sundance-winning feature turns the tragic realities of displacement in Lesotho into a strange, oneiric fable

The Film Comment Podcast: Kirsten Johnson on Dick Johnson Is Dead

By Devika Girish
January 31, 2020
Man alive: the director of Cameraperson sits down out at Sundance to discuss her latest, premiering at the festival

Interview: Garrett Bradley

By Amy Taubin
January 31, 2020
One day at a time: the filmmaker on her standout Sundance doc Time, which follows a woman’s tireless efforts to get her husband released from prison

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2020 #6

By Nicolas Rapold
January 30, 2020
Fault lines: Ashley Clark joins to discuss Epicentro, Palm Springs, The 40-Year-Old Version, and more

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2020 #5

By Nicolas Rapold
January 29, 2020
Now hear this: Ela Bittencourt and Eric Hynes join to discuss City So Real, Some Kind of Heaven, Tesla, and more

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2020 #4

By Nicolas Rapold
January 28, 2020
Another green world: Sierra Pettengill joins to discuss The Assistant, Spaceship Earth, Kajillionaire, and more

Sundance Dispatch: Never Rarely Sometimes Always

By Devika Girish
January 28, 2020
Looking forward: Eliza Hittman's portrait of fraught teenagehood is the most overtly political of the writer-director’s work

Dispatch: The Borscht Film Festival

By Nick Pinkerton
January 27, 2020
Gazing into the void: after a two-year hiatus, the Miami-based collective returned with Borscht 0, the latest iteration of their shorts-focused film festival