For this month’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the 49th Denver Film Festival (Oct. 22-Nov. 1) and highlight six of my favorites: Rose featuing Sanda Hüller, Watch You Rise from Boulder-based director Isabella Grace Cohn, Once Upon a Time in Harlem directed by David Greaves—working with footage shot by his father, filmmaker William Greaves—The Story of Documentary Film from Mark Cousins, Ken Russell’s 1971 masterpiece The Devils, and the winner of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award: Beth de Araújo’s Josephine.

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