Denmark’s most acclaimed and celebrated contemporary actress, Paprika Steen, is virtually unknown here. That could change with her tour de force in Applause as a recovering alcoholic actress who stars onstage in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

British satirist and comedian Chris Morris's film directing debut, Four Lions gets laughs out of what many would believe is a dauntingly serious subject: a would-be terrorist group of Islamic militants in London.

With the micro-budgeted semi-autobiographical Tiny Furniture, writer/filmmaker Lena Dunham has solved the problem of what comes after graduating from Oberlin College: Do more screenwriting, acting and producing.

John Curran, whose new movie Stone, pairs Robert De Niro and Edward Norton for the second time, is a director who, says Norton, his friend and two-time leading man, continually examines authenticity in his films.