Film-Forward

Australia’s submission for the Best International Feature Film Academy Award.

First time director Cord Jefferson accomplishes quite a balancing act. He has made a family drama and, more pungently and winningly, a satire aimed at an adult audience. 

Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania cleverly strips off layer after layer of a family history in this engrossing, intimate, and expansive documentary.

An entertainingly appreciative, if ultimately unsatisfying, documentary on the writer, who, through his work, “could be a terrorist.”

Fashion docs tend to be fawning anyway, but this one has a subject worthy of fawning over.

With a main character spouting piss, spit, and vinegar, as well as raunchy talk, John Carney’s latest has an edge—and an R rating.

Ilker Catak’s pressure cooker drama has been chosen as Germany’s Best International Feature Oscar submission for 2023.

Viewers don’t need to know a jeté from a plié to enjoy this moving dance documentary.

Pierre-Henri Gibert is the first director to take on the biography of maverick filmmaker Agnès Varda, apart from Varda herself.