Reviewing the 14th edition of First Look, Museum of the Moving Image's annual festival showcasing adventurous new cinema.

By Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer | March 14, 2025

His films occlude the presence of human labor and consumption. Instead, he spotlights the empty, spaceship-like labs and warehouses where meat of all kinds is processed or artificially created before it is packaged by automated robots and sent off to supermarkets.

By David Schwartz | March 13, 2025

Lina intuitively understands that the anguish the time with her father will cause her is part of the price for a film that exposes in stark terms the workings and results of toxic masculinity.

By Chloe Lizotte | March 13, 2025

When compressed to a dry-sounding logline, The Shipwrecked Triptych is an anthology film about postwar German cultural identity and social exclusion; Eroglu is Danish-Turkish and was educated in Berlin, which frames his perspective on the country. But the film is not a history lesson.