First Look 2025
Reviewing the 14th edition of First Look, Museum of the Moving Image's annual festival showcasing adventurous new cinema.
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.
By Saffron Maeve
| March 12, 2025
There’s a delicious spaciousness to the first film by writer Durga Chew-Bose, which has all the sybaritic trimmings of a coastal summer: sun-dappled skin, chalky beach expanses, fresh fruit on the veranda, a perpetual breeze...