Weiting Liu

Born and raised in Chengdu, China, Weiting Liu is a film journalist currently based in Brooklyn. Her work focuses on Chinese arthouse cinema and media representations of race, gender, and intersectionality.

Weiting Liu interviews German director Christian Petzold on the topic of his latest feature, Miroirs No. 3.

Christian Petzold, Miroirs No. 3, 2025. Courtesy 1-2 Special.

Julian Schnabel’s empathy is melancholic and metatextual: he invites us to experience the world as his subjects once experienced it, to sense the nearness of those they loved, and to relive the delicate joys that sustained them. It is through this lineage of shared visions and refracted selves that In the Hand of Dante culminates, unfurling from the canonical poet’s inner reveries into a sweeping mythos.

Julian Schnabel, In the Hand of Dante, 2025. Courtesy the artist.

Using her characteristically realist approaches, Moselle, alongside Harden, made The Black Sea on location in a small coastal town in Bulgaria, where they recruited locals to play themselves in the film. Harden also plays its protagonist Khalid, a Brownsville slacker who gets into a foreign fish-out-of-water crisis and embarks on an eventful journey of self-discovery far away from home.

CRYSTAL MOSELLE & DERRICK B. HARDEN with Weiting Liu

Wilson turns an intimate, in-depth lens onto seven New York psychics this time around. Switching back and forth between the consulting sessions and their private home lives, the film has one clear throughline: psychic reading as mutual therapy between the psychics and their clients with shared grief and struggles.

LANA WILSON with Weiting Liu
Lin’s latest film confronts the intergenerational psyche shaped by China’s one-child policy.
Courtesy First Light Films.

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