David D'Arcy
Watch “Five Broken Cameras” as “No Other Land” finds its way to festivals beyond Berlin. By then, the forced displacement of people in the West Bank will look gentle compared to the relentless siege of Gaza.
A Mexican director sets a British play in a Times Square restaurant and patients talk to their psychiatrists in Paris.
New cinematic mavericks have come along. All the more reason that the views of earlier rebels be collected and preserved, given the short historical memories of young filmmakers and their audiences.
At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, in the midst of the usual well-meaning social documentaries and “independent” celebrity tributes, some real cinematic ambition crept in.
Among the memorable films at Sundance 2024, a trio of music films led the way.
The disconnect between the Amsterdam of the past that is revisited and the scenes of life in the city today dramatize the fragility of memory and its erosion.
Three first-rate documentaries at DOC NYC that examine the crimes of the past and the fragility of the present.
This thoughtful documentary watches cinemas vanish from a Brazilian city.
As always, the New York Film Festival was a mix of art films that may never see general release with a few star-laden commercial movies angling for awards.
Four reviews of films about existence — past and present — for the marginalized in Scandinavia.

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