Kantemir Balagov hails from the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic of the Russian North Caucasus, a fraught multi-ethnic region rarely represented in the … More

Six years ago, Valérie Massadian won the Locarno Film Festival’s best first feature prize for Nana (2011), a revelatory portrait of a … More

One of the most telling insights in Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., Stephen Loveridge’s documentary about the fiercely outspoken Sri Lankan-British rapper known as M.I.A., … More