In her second film, Japanese director Chie Hayakawa ('Plan 75') tells a deeply personal story about a crucial summer in the ...

In her solo directorial debut, co-written with Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou follows three generations of women building a life in ...

Chantal Akerman's 'Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels' is a stunning look at female coming-of-age and ...

A Renaissance portrait, “Portrait of Bia de’ Medici,” by Bronzino carries a story of loss and longing, writes Jin.

Competing at Cannes, the second feature from Mascha Schilinski (‘Dark Blue Girl’) depicts four generations of young women ...

Fragar is the 13th woman to win the country’s most popular portrait competition, winning for her portrait of a fellow ...

One of several films from the African continent shown at the Cannes Film Festival, Erige Sehiri’s Promised Sky (Promis le ...

When you hear the phrase "smart girl," what comes to mind? Ambition? Good grades? A go-getter attitude? While all of that ...

Last week, like that proverbial narrative of a spread of witchcraft cells, Nigeria moved from one social and political horror ...

“Apache helicopters,” the girl replies ... of events — a bigger picture to accompany this intimate portrait of a gifted young woman living through hell, yet still able to look at the ...

In Open, Heaven, his first novel, he has produced a kind of origin story for just such a talent – a portrait of the sensualist as a young man. As if to give himself licence, Hewitt first frames ...