A camera can record almost anything. It cannot decide what an image means. That tension hangs over Ahmed Hassouna’s “Citizen...

Desire gives Maya permission to look long before she has earned the right to understand. That distinction hangs over Anita...

Patricia has already directed the scene before Ashley has agreed to appear in it. Early in Ryan Moore’s Influence, the...

Laughton University is arranged like an argument before it becomes a battlefield. Farrah and her protesters have the student union,...

Emma spends much of All That She Wants mistaking embarrassment for evidence. A degrading commercial shoot has her dancing in...

The first warning arrives in the form of horses. Tessa Ensler looks at the polished barristers around her and imagines...

The most unsettling thing Jannis Lenz does with violence is keep it slightly out of reach. A threat circulates through...

A detective who cannot trust his own perception presents a fairly obvious problem for a crime story. Sabu finds the...

The most revealing thing Adam Samuels does is rescue a woman from another man. He recognizes the threat immediately, knows...

Politics in Jelena Maksimović’s Until the Day Ends rarely settles into speeches or manifestos. It moves through bodies, rooms, affiliations,...