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From Wendy and Zombi Child to several remarkable shorts, here’s New Times‘ critics guide on what to see at Third Horizon Film Festival 2020.

The topic of feminine gratification — or rather, its conspicuous absence from popular discourse — has long been a focus for director Barbara Miller.

When the Miami-based Caribbean filmmaking collective Third Horizon screened Papa Machete — a film about a Haitian machete-fencing master — at Toronto International Film Festival and Sundance nearly six years ago, co-executive director Jason Fitzroy Jeffers and his colleagues couldn’t shake an observation…

This year’s offerings include a screening of the Walter Mercado documentary “Mucho Mucho Amor” and an appearance by “Midsommar” director Ari Aster.

The culmination of a yearlong search for the best short films is about to be on display. The Miami Short Film Festival, started in 2002 by filmmaker William Vela, is celebrating its 2019 festival winners on Sunday, January 19 with a screening taking place at the Deering Estate Theatre in…

The gripping feature, which will screen twice at the Miami Jewish Film Festival, follows Yigal Amir in the months before he assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

South Florida visual and sound artist Richard Vergez is set to perform an original soundtrack for the influential 1920 German horror film “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” during a special screening this Saturday, January 11. The special screening is celebrating the movie’s 100th anniversary.

Nearly a century onward from the Holocaust, filmmaker Tod Lending figured every story about the atrocity that claimed the lives of 6 million Jews had already been told. That was until he heard about Saul Dreier and Ruby Sosnowicz. The two, who reside in South Florida, survived the religious persecution of the Nazi regime and went on to form a klezmer act the Holocaust Survivor Band 70 years later.

Making a list of the year’s best films is an overwhelming endeavor for a film critic. Having seen more than 150 cinematic works this year, I found it tough to limit the stellar ones to 20. The list lost exciting films as ambitious and messy as the Matthew McConaughey-starring Serenity, as provocative and intriguing as Holiday, and as gorgeously animated and tender as Weathering With You.

For the past half-decade, local film experts — including critics, programmers, professors, and filmmakers — have picked their favorite flicks of the year for the Miami Film Awards. The results were published on the website Dim the House Lights in 2015 and 2016 before moving to New Times in 2017 and 2018. Now they’re back to close out the decade.

“Mucho Mucho Amor” — a documentary about the late astrologer Walter Mercado — and the Borscht-produced film “Omniboat” are among the Miami-born projects that will screen at the 2020 edition of Sundance.

The Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF) is set to return for its 23rd edition January 9 through 23, 2020, when it will premiere more than a hundred films from 25 countries. The fest will screen its largest collection yet and boasts 33 films directed by women (composing nearly a third of the lineup).

Trey Edward Shults, the director of “Krisha” and “It Comes at Night,” discusses his latest movie, “Waves,” which is set in South Florida.

The writer/director behind “The Squid and the Whale” and “Frances Ha” spoke with New Times about crafting a tale of two cities in his latest film, as well as his and Adam Driver’s shared love of Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Company.”

The woman-led production was produced through Borscht’s No Bro Zone, a three-year-old initiative designed to empower female filmmakers.

America’s foremost purveyor of smut and unabashedly trashy pop culture dishes with about his new book and Netflix before his appearance at Miami Book Fair 2019 Tuesday, November 19.

This Saturday, November 2, Coral Gables Art Cinema will screen Dolemite, a blaxploitation classic that marked the cinematic debut of nightclub comic Rudy Ray Moore.

“It’s a blast; I’m superproud of it. If I wasn’t, I’d let history bury it,” Mark Patton says of the flick that was supposed to make him a star, 1985’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge. Patton wound up having a complicated relationship with the Freddy Krueger sequel that was lambasted by critics but cleaned up at the box office.

With Carros, 21-year-old filmmaker Alec Castillo looked to make a subtle statement on the treatment of Cuba in pop culture.

“Moonlight” producer and Borscht Corp. cofounder Andrew Hevia’s documentary “Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window” examines Art Basel’s nascent Hong Kong fair and how it relates to that city’s artists.

The Miami Film Festival is back with its annual Gems — a weekend of movie premieres showing at the Tower Theater. Perhaps the most anticipated of these screenings is Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory, which will open the four-day minifestival Thursday, October 10. But as New Times film critics Juan…

With so many options to choose from, navigating Miami’s film festival scene can prove challenging for even the most dedicated cinephiles.