Filmmaker spotlights
Two Australian brothers filmed a rarely staged Shakespeare tragedy
Dan and Bramwell Noah filmed Timon of Athens, then a crime story and a nearly wordless sci-fi fairytale. Relay has all three.
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A documentary gave its subjects new faces so they could be seen safely
Welcome to Chechnya (2020) gave 23 people fleeing an anti-LGBTQ purge new faces, the first documentary on the Oscar effects shortlist.
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Recent comedies: a billion-point arcade record and a hometown film
A nearly two-day arcade marathon, a Siberian lake and a boxing comedy shot in 18 days: recent comedies with a story behind them.
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A Utah action-film fan became a Hallmark romance director
John Lyde began with action films and now directs romances and Christmas films. Relay has 11 of his films.
Movies
A fake Finnish metal band went from film school to cult film
Heavy Trip (2018) began as a film school short about a fake metal band and became a cult film abroad.
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Films directed by women: only 11% of 2024's 100 biggest US films
Women directed 11% of 2024's 100 top-grossing US films. Eight recent ones, from a Saudi Venice entry to an Indian newsroom.
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How a Utah family's side business became a romance film studio
Brian Brough directs romances for his family's Utah studio, from a 2017 blind date to a 2024 time-travel love story.
Movies
A Red Cross doctor's 1945 diary became a César-nominated film
The Innocents (2016) comes from a French doctor's private diary of Poland in 1945. It earned four César nominations.
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Recent crime thrillers: an Argentine car trap got a Hollywood remake
A thief locked in a car, a Bremen poisoner and a director sentenced over Cannes: crime thrillers from Iran, India, Pakistan and more.
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The surf filmmaker behind a $128 million IMAX film on Everest
Greg MacGillivray went from 8mm beach films to IMAX. Relay has four of his films, three of them from 2015 to 2017.
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Recent psychological thrillers: a 17-year-old directed Susan Sarandon
A teenage director, a man who kills by standing near you and a cult at a cabin door: recent psychological thrillers.
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Iran's first woman-directed Oscar entry came from a novelist
Narges Abyar wrote novels before films. Relay has 2: Track 143, a war drama from the home front, and When the Moon Was Full.