The Film Stage

A decade after 13th opened the New York Film Festival, Ava DuVernay’s follow-up documentary 14th will world premiere as the Closing Night selection of the 64th edition. The Netflix-backed feature will be making its world premiere at Alice Tully Hall...

As moments for holding your attention go, July 2026 is not making it easy. The first summer World Cup of the TikTok age, much to the awful delight of FIFA, is surely in the running for most-eyeballed event in human...

A highlight from New Directors/New Films last year, where it made its North American Premiere, Lorena Alvarado’s poetic debut feature Lost Chapters (Los capítulos perdidos) has been picked up by Several Futures for a release this week. The acclaimed Venezuelan film will open...

Premiering at last year’s Tribeca Festival to much acclaim, Paula González-Nasser’s debut The Scout follows the day in the life of a NYC location scout. With a cast featuring Mimi Davila, Rutanya Alda, Max Rosen, Ikechukwu Ufomadu, Sarah Herrman, Alex...

Madoka (Marika Itô) is a Shimokitazawa-based playwright putting the finishing touches on her latest work to be performed by her and Shiho’s (Riko Fujitani) troupe at the Good Heavens bar above a Chicago vintage clothing shop. Kazuma’s (Kai Inowaki) band...

Ahead of the Toronto International Film Festival running its 51st edition from September 10—20, they’ve now unveiled a first wave of features with its Gala and Special Presentations programs. This year’s sections feature films from nearly 30 countries, with work...

What if two members of Baltimore’s Wham City Comedy took drugs and time traveled to the lo-fi, experimental underground cinematic heyday of Maya Deren to craft a surreally and absurdly bonkers riff on the Ship of Theseus paradox wherein a...

The Criterion Channel’s mass-addition of restorations marked a watershed moment for Hong Kong cinema’s exposure in the United States, but—as with seemingly all else in cinema—there’s always more. Beefing up their collection of Ringo Lam films, then, is an August-bound...

Janus Films has acquired the 4K restoration of René Laloux’s final feature, Gandahar—a notable-enough effort in micro, and more significant for the distributor now possessing rights to all three of the visionary Frenchman’s features. Unfair though it is to set...

We’re delighted to exclusively announce the lineup for the 28th annual Sidewalk Film Festival, taking place in Birmingham, Alabama, from August 24-30. Set to open with John Wilson’s feature debut The History of Concrete and close with Kenya-Jade Pinto’s The...