There’s a notion in the film industry that comedies don’t travel. Jokes have a regional audience, and humor gets lost in translation, the thinking goes. But director Matthew Rankin thinks more of ...

"An Taibhse" ("The Ghost"), the first-ever Irish-language horror film, will have its US premiere at the Newport Film Festival in California this month. The team behind the Irish language film says ...

The New York Irish Center (NYIC) hosted FÍS NUA | New Vision, the first Irish language film festival in the US, from February 19–21 at its headquarters in Long Island City. The three-day event ...

Mayumi Yoshida's Japanese-language coming-of-age drama Akashi marks a pioneering effort in Canadian film. No wonder it's winning film festival awards. The Canadian-Japanese director's ...

‘We are living in an era that is increasingly cruel, mean, and rigid,’ says director Matthew Rankin, but ‘art still has the power to create proximity, to create this closeness.’ Early into the ...

Alison O’Daniel is a visual artist and filmmaker who works with sound, moving images, sculpture, and large-scale installations. She is the director of The Tuba Thieves, an experimental film that ...

I get the feeling Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin has some unresolved issues with his homeland. With his 2019 feature film debut The Twentieth Century, he concocted an alt-history psycho-satire ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s latest is proving to be an awards season juggernaut. “The Secret Agent” won the Non-English Language Film Award at the Golden Globes on January 11, in a major indicator for ...