In collaboration with lead actors Mia Maestro and Leonor Varela, Chilean writer/director Francisca Alegria paints a visually rich, emotionally layered fable about motherhood—where two troubled humans symbolize Mother Earth and the threats posed by our species. In UK and Irish theaters March 24th.

In October of 2017, I interviewed Ruben Östlund during the New York Film Festival for IONCINEMA. We talked about how his latest film The Square is—or now, aguably was—Östlund’s most ambitious attack on humanity yet … with a compellingly affectionate touch.

You may already know RJ Cyler from the 2015 Sundance double-award winner Me, Earl and the Dying Girl, Netflix’s recent all-black western hit The Harder They Fall, or Showtime’s Scream: Resurrection. Surprise is this actor’s M.O: besides zeal for his craft, skateboarding and video games, he holds more in reserve. In his collaborations with Carey Williams—both 2022’s award-winning Emergency and R#J, a Gen-Z reimagination of Romeo and Juliet—he merrily paints himself one way, then sneaks up with emotional heft. Undeniably funny and self-aware, he often steals the screen—including in our interview, linked below.