Great cinema, right at home!

Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlinale, Mati Diop’s dynamic film brings a dazzling sense of imagination to vital issues of self-determination and restitution. Amplifying voices from beyond the walls of international museums, this spellbinding work redefines the spaces of culture and art.

Reliving triumphs and controversies, fashion designer John Galliano takes center stage in this grippingly nuanced portrait from Oscar®-winner Kevin Macdonald. Star-studded interviews and rare archival footage reveal the toxicity behind exquisite glamor and spectacle, both on and off the runway.

The directorial debut of editor Walter Fasano (Call Me by Your Name), this unconventional documentary is a spirited portrait of Pino Pascali, an icon of postwar Italian art. Narrated by Suzanne Vega, Alma Jodorowsky, and Michele Riondino, Pino unmasks the revolutionary legacy of a forgotten artist.

An eye-opening look at Ryuichi Sakamoto’s life, work, and creative process, this portrait shows an artist aware of his responsibility to the world around him. His fascination with the beauty and violence of both nature and humanity is all the more moving as he candidly reflects on his own mortality.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, renowned South African artist William Kentridge opens the doors to his Johannesburg studio to lay bare his creative process. Combining animation, collage, performance, and conversations with doppelgängers, Kentridge reflects on culture, history, and political memory.

Featuring interviews with its subject’s most famous collaborators—Spike Jonze, Sofia Coppola—this absorbing documentary largely lets the self-aware artist recount his own unusual journey. Embracing a mindful work ethic, he stands in inspiring contrast to the toxic model of the tortured artist.

Artist, designer, and filmmaker Susanne Deeken draws on our intimate associations with the home for this surreal trip into a haunted soul. Evocative of both children’s drawings and horror films, A Place Without Fear uses analog and digital techniques to conjure a nightmarish vision all its own.

Sitting in on an art class for her first short, Indigenous director Alanis Obomsawin celebrates the nascent creativity of Cree children. Accompanying their lovely impressions of wintry landscapes and nativity scenes, the little artists talk in voice-over about their processes, ideas, and dreams.