Film Festivals

A thoughtful portrait of Naples that traces daily routines, civic duties and subterranean histories under the watch of Mount Vesuvius

A compact preview of New York repertory programs, tickets and programming for the 25th Green Mountain Film Festival, and a note on Sang-il Lee’s Kabuki drama kokuho

An artist’s feature debut uses three personal stories, scientific perspective and evocative imagery to probe what remains of the self when the mind fragments

Joey Bueno Breese claimed the jury prize for El Rio Nuestro and Devin O’Guinn earned the audience award for Julian during the Frieze Los Angeles film ceremony at Santa Monica Airport

Sofia Coppola makes her documentary debut with an intimate portrait of Marc Jacobs, debuting at Venice, screening at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight (Feb 26–Mar 11, 2026) and arriving in theaters on March 20

Kai Stänicke’s feature debut Trial of Hein uses a remote island setting and a community tribunal to interrogate identity, memory and social belonging, winning the Teddy Award jury honor after its Berlinale Perspectives premiere.

Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, made on a 2008 Sony Ericsson W595, is a meditative 186-minute road movie opening at Film at Lincoln Center on March 20; Cinema Guild released the first trailer via Letterboxd

A Berlinale review that highlights how Ted Fendt’s Foreign Travel uses books and Berlin streets to illuminate the transformative power of reading

A Berlinale feature that follows characters who travel mentally through literature, demonstrating how reading reshapes identity and everyday life in Berlin

A Berlin-set film that follows Leonie and her friends as they live through the unsettling pleasures of reading Anna Maria Ortese, inviting viewers to share in the intimate work of meaning-making

At the 2026 Berlinale the Golden Bear for Yellow Letters highlighted the festival’s enduring role as a political stage while prompting heated discussion about free expression, institutional caution and the limits of protest

Austere and theatrical, Kai Stänicke’s Trial of Hein stages a return to a remote island to interrogate how memory and community shape identity

Yellow Letters, a domestic drama by İlker Çatak, won the Golden Bear at the 2026 Berlinale, spotlighting artistic dissent while the festival confronted questions about censorship and political speech

A Berlin School director enlarges her lens: Eva Trobish’s Home Stories follows a young singer whose TV audition forces a family to confront history and modern tensions

Angela Schanelec returns with My Wife Cries, a measured cinematic meditation on desire and loss set against Berlin’s cityscape and premiered at the 2026 Berlinale

Caroline Golum’s second feature, Revelations of Divine Love, premiered at FIDMarseille and will begin a theatrical run in New York on March 27; Several Futures handles distribution

How a handful of boys in Kaduna became The Critics, using DIY filmmaking as escape and expression while evolving into socially engaged artists

Four Minus Three, a film about loss and resilience based on Barbara Pachl-Eberhart’s memoir, won the Europa Cinemas Label at the Berlinale Panorama and will receive promotional backing across Europe

Caroline Golum’s imaginative biopic about Julian of Norwich, starring Tessa Strain, debuts from Several Futures and begins a limited U.S. theatrical run starting march 27 in New York

A concise look at New York’s repertory offerings, key venues, and the Raymond Depardon retrospective opening at Film at Lincoln Center on February 20th

Christian Petzold’s latest, Miroirs No. 3, is a Hitchcock-tinged psychodrama featuring Paula Beer; it debuted at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and opens in the U.S. on March 20 with a Film at Lincoln Center retrospective and a director appearance.

A lively roundtable at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival gathered Oscar-nominated screenwriters to discuss adaptation, risk, and the craft of storytelling

The New African Film Festival returns march 13–26 in Washington, D.C., with 25 films from 18 countries, highlighted by Akinola Davies Jr.’s My Father’s Shadow and a showcase of immersive animation work

A tender, occasionally kitschy portrait of family, class and place, Anthony Chen’s We Are All Strangers closes his Growing Up trilogy and made its debut at the Berlinale