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And the winner is… The Souvenir Part II
Joanna Hogg and Honor Swinton Byrne reflect on winning the S&S 2021 poll, and on the long and satisfying journey of making the Souvenir films
Inside Rebel Dykes: the previously untold story of a punk-minded lesbian subculture
By El Hunt
Back to the days of UK garage: Reggie Yates on Pirates, his nostalgic directorial debut
By Katherine McLaughlin
The post-punk look: Dick Pope on remastering Mike Leigh’s Naked
By James Bell
A new dawn for Sudanese cinema: Amjad Abu Alala on You Will Die at Twenty
By Georgia Korossi
Belfast: Kenneth Branagh on an autobiographical drama “50 years in the making”
By Lou Thomas
Rose Plays Julie: Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor on their provocative identity thriller
By Nikki Baughan
Wildfire: Cathy Brady and Nora-Jane Noone on their Irish border drama
By Josh Slater-Williams
Hazy memories of 90s Britain: Saint Etienne’s visual album I’ve Been Trying to Tell You
By Katherine McLaughlin
“Everyone watches the film and thinks ‘That could be my country’”: Michel Franco on New Order
By Paul Julian Smith
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World directors: “The film industry has a history of sad stories about child actors”
By Lou Thomas
Pariah at 10: Dee Rees on her mould-breaking lesbian classic
By Grace Barber-Plentie
“Police corruption is very present in LA”: Nick Broomfield on Last Man Standing
By James Mottram
Bearing witness and burning illusions: Menelik Shabazz, 1954-2021
By Menelik Shabazz
“I know it’s unfashionable, but I believe in humanity”: Krzysztof Kieslowski on the Decalogue
By Phil Cavendish
Come dine with me: in the filmmaker’s house with Marc Isaacs
By Isabel Stevens
“What happens after the film is as important as what happens during the film”: Cristi Puiu on cinema culture past, present and future
By Cristi Puiu
“I wanted to make something that fits the moment”: Ben Wheatley on In the Earth
By Anton Bitel
“Palestinisation is everywhere”: Elia Suleiman on It Must Be Heaven
By Nick Chen
“I take pride in my millennial audience”: Emma Seligman on Shiva Baby and sugar daddies
By Sophie Monks Kaufman
“I love playing the rascal”: William H. Macy looks back at Fargo
By Lou Thomas
“In a way it’s my apology to animals”: Victor Kossakovsky on his pig family portrait Gunda
By Nick Bradshaw
“Things are so much messier, and more beautiful, than we believe”: Aleem Khan on After Love
By Will Massa
An audience with Howard Hawks
By Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington
13 films to watch at Sheffield DocFest 2021 – by the programmers
By Nick Bradshaw
Matthew Barney on his new film Redoubt, and why exhibition is the best way to see it
By Ben Nicholson
“Savour the NFT”: Gurinder Chadha on watching and shooting films at her favourite cinema
By Gurinder Chadha