Marley McDonald and Brian Becker’s debut documentary Time Bomb Y2K receives some critical attention from four of our Critics Campus participants: Lauren Collee, Eric Jiang, Charles Carrall and Indigo Bailey.

Critics Campus participant Đăng Tùng Bạch speaks to director Anthony Chen about his latest feature, an exploration of the burning passion of youth in a cold climate.

Critics Campus participant Indigo Bailey speaks to actor turned writer/director Alice Englert about her retreat-set black comedy and how its complicated characters were shaped.

Critics Campus participant Charles Carrall analyses the messy ménage à trois at the heart of Ira Sachs’s film, in which sex provides plenty of questions and few answers.

Critics Campus participant Lauren Collee speaks to critic and The Sweet East screenwriter Nick Pinkerton about the film’s artistic priorities, literary inspirations and enigmatic protagonist.

Critics Campus participant Eric Jiang discusses three MIFF films that each deal with love triangles using different narrative approaches – presenting these situations as variously damaging, ambiguous and powerfully transformative.

Critics Campus participant Kevin Bui examines Paul Schrader’s shift away from narratives of retribution and towards tales of personal growth – culminating in one of his most hopeful, if also most difficult, films.

Critics Campus participant Christy Tan takes a look at the political and aesthetic questions posed by William Greaves’s radical 1968 docufiction experiment.