Money is just a piece of paper: spendable, foldable, and flammable. Nowadays, money moves faster than ever. But in 1986 Queens and Brooklyn, where writer-director James Gray’s crime thriller “Paper Tiger” unfolds, its weight is enough to pull a family under.

Set in the Kinmen archipelago and its chronicles of the Chinese Civil War, “Overt Listening” amplifies the region’s audible artifacts as echoes of a world order from which remnants linger today.

The ghost story in cinema has never really been about the dead; it’s almost always about the living and what they can’t let go of. “Mallory’s Ghost” knows this well, putting a spin on the haunted house tradition as a horror-comedy about obsessing over your partner’s ex-lover.

In her debut feature film, “Lady,” Olive Nwosu, SoA ’21, plunges into the neon-lit underworld of Lagos, where a young taxi driver meets a group of sex workers and is set on a path toward self-discovery and transformation.

In times of unexpected rupture, what has been taken for granted can suddenly become unstable—for a child, it’s a change difficult to articulate or understand. “Josephine” explores this subtle yet fragile disquiet through this perspective.

The late October cold did not deter students from congregating around Low Plaza Friday night for this year’s Night Market hosted by the Columbia Chinese Students Club.

Four years after her first feature film, “Beginning,” swept international festivals, Dea Kulumbegashvili, SoA ’18, returns with “April,” an intimate, unflinching portrait of Nina—an OB-GYN living in the country of Georgia who secretly provides abortions in a rural, patriarchal town—further cementing Kulumbegashvili as one of world cinema’s most promising emerging directors.

What happens when art confronts our insatiable hunger for more?

When toxic black snow blankets a remote Siberian town, a homemaker armed with a camera takes a stand—only to find herself in the crosshairs of the state authority.

Dancers from Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, and Columbia gathered at the Alvin Ailey Studios for the Columbia Ballet Collaborative Ivy Ballet Exchange on Sunday. With Yale joining for the first time, this marks the second iteration of the event since its hiatus during the pandemic.