Blurred lines: Mark Jenkin’s mind-bending slice of purgatorial folk horror vividly depicts the psychological dissolution of a woman living in isolation on the windswept moors of a tiny Cornish isle
Nightlight: C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s new feature is a black-and-white West African folk tale in which the actors glow against a backdrop of ocean and forest
I'm on a boat: Noah Teichner’s Navigators and Jean-Luc Godard’s Film socialisme share curious resonances, not least of which is the looming specter of real-life catastrophe
Oceanic feeling: the German filmmaker talks about his latest, a slyly comedic chamber piece, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at last month’s Berlinale
Undercurrents: this year’s Berlin Critics’ Week focused on “sur-realism,” a mode of Latin American filmmaking that doesn’t imagine an escape from reality but instead is fully, vividly, nightmarishly of it.
Mirror mirror: Marguerite Duras’s acclaimed classic India Song and her less well-known Baxter, Vera Baxter offer striking examples of her knack for colliding literary language with the audiovisual form
