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Benjamín Naishtat's The Movement is showing exclusively on Mubi from August 9 - September 11, 2016 as part of our series Direct from Locarno.As I write this, a year and a half has passed since The Movement was made. It was something of a frenzy. Korean programmers of the Jeonju International Film Festival wrote an email to me as 2014 ended to ask if I could shoot a feature and complete it by April 2015. I said "yes." I usually establish my field of work around politics and history. I had for some time been wondering about the birth of Argentine politics. It only takes traveling some 300km south of Buenos Aires to understand to what extent the notion of a Nation and a territory is mainly a matter of fiction, still in our time. Yes, every nation in the world could be perceived as a tale, but then again we have only...

Director Benjamin Naishtat tackles the tumultuous birth of Argentina in his strikingly black and white feature The Movement (El Movimiento). Supported, as it was, by the Jeonju Digital Cinema project and having premiered in Locarno it comes as no surprise that there's a decidedly arthouse slant here but the trailer for the picture is very strong, indeed.In that nebula that exists between the foundational myth and the actions of men, the nation is forged, and that is what El Movimiento is about: the Birth of a Nation, like that, with capital letters. But the nation is created by men, by their demagogy and their irreconcilable antagonisms. And this almost entirely manly world, of thick faces born from the earth -with Pablo Cedrón as banner and...

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The American Film Institute announced today the films that will screen in the World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight, Shorts and Cinema’s Legacy programs at AFI Fest 2015 presented by Audi.

AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.

World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...