Together and apart: the two directors discuss the making of their award-winning documentary, their transition from journalism to cinema, and finding the right balance between images of incontrovertible violence with those of resilience and life

Love’s labor’s lost: the French director discusses his latest, a time-hopping thriller about the pursuit of love in a hostile world

Smile through it: a trilogy of early features by Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris explore the misogyny constraining women’s everyday lives—and their acts of disobedience and rebellion—through complex, provocative narratives

Great expectations: the Romanian filmmaker discusses his madcap latest, an unpredictable, funny, crass, and erudite that speaks to a wide variety of concerns—totalitarianism, neoliberalism, and the corrosive role of media—with extraordinary verve

Blazing trail: scholar Aboubakar Sanogo joins to discuss the bristling anti-colonial visions of the great Mauritanian-French filmmaker

With Yi Yi and A Brighter Summer Day in revival at Film at Lincoln Center, revisit this year-2000 essay on the films of Taiwanese master Edward Yang