It’s that time of the year when our social media accounts are bombarded with images of lustful beach resorts in the Caribbean *scroll*, the quaint[…]
Samira Makhmalbaf
As the daughter of Iran’s celebrated filmmaker Mohsen Makhmlabaf, Samira holds a unique prominence within the global cinema market, especially after breaking the Cannes world record[…]
The F Word
I have this vivid memory from one time when my friends and I drifted off into the ocean on a kayak– maybe a little too[…]
Lucrecia Martel
We often think of water as an element that cleanses and purifies, but in the films of Lucrecia Martel, it festers and corrodes, floods and[…]
The Myth of Overachievers
If you ever played The Sims 2, (or like me, grew up with it) you might recall a certain aspiration goal for your Sims to[…]
Athina Tsangari
Venerated by global cinema-watchers as a benchmark of the Greek New Wave, the work of Athina Tsangari presents a strange and fascinating vision that is[…]
Wolf Whistles & Cat Calls
Growing up as a teenage girl who didn’t drive and ended up walking around a lot, I became accustomed to catcallers, hecklers, and whistlers. Not[…]