Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations and more.
‘I just want to give him back the shame he left me with for all these years.’
On 31 December 2003, Lucie Tremblay set out to confront the man who had sexually abused her from the age of eight to 12 years old. Equipped with a handheld camera and a letter to her abuser, Tremblay travelled 12 hours through Quebec to the remote municipality of Val-Brillant, unsure whether or not the man still lived there – or was even alive. Tremblay’s video diary of the drive sat dormant for some 10 years until it was discovered by her son, the Québécois filmmaker Loïc Darses. Constructed with deep care and sensitivity, Darses’s found-footage documentary, A Woman and Her Car (2015), is both a wrenching account of what it takes to confront an abuser and a powerful tribute to Tremblay’s courage, strength and maternal love.
Director: Loïc Darses
video
Rituals and celebrations
A beginner’s guide to a joyful Persian tradition of spring renewal and rebirth
3 minutes
video
Politics and government
How it looked to Afghan women to see the Taliban return to power
33 minutes
video
Love and friendship
Love looks a bit different for a chain-smoking couple in a small apartment
11 minutes
video
Biography and memoir
Passed over as the first Black astronaut, Ed Dwight carved out an impressive second act
13 minutes
video
The ancient world
The six priestesses who kept the flame of ancient Rome alight at risk of death
5 minutes
video
Engineering
A close-up look at electronic paper reveals its exquisite patterns – and limitations
9 minutes
video
Architecture
West Africa was once an architectural laboratory. Is it time for a revival?
12 minutes
video
Work
A Swedish expat in the Philippines wonders: what’s up with people sleeping at work?
14 minutes
video
Biography and memoir
The unique life philosophy of Abdi, born in Somalia, living in the Netherlands
29 minutes