After the incredible achievement of Jeanne Dielman, Chantal Akerman returned to what might be understood as her cinematic birthplace in New York, where she made News from Home.

This film blends piety and passion in a mix of sentimentality and sleaze. Cuban star Ninón Sevilla plays Violeta, a Club Changoo performer who is fired after rescuing a newborn abandoned by a fellow ...

A socially awkward workaholic resigns on a whim and then contemplates her new future in a Groningen village full of eccentrics while wrapping the local bachelors around her finger.

Matilde Soto Landeta, a rare female director in Mexico’s Golden Age, brings an explicitly feminist lens to *Streetwalker (Trotacalles)*. Middle-class Elena is seduced by a swindler who also pimps her ...