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We look forward to the Art of the Real festival every year, and 2022 is no exception. In fact, a spotlight on the work of French filmmaker Alice Diop makes this year\u2019s roundup of groundbreaking nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking especially exciting. Diop\u2019s We (2021),\xa0 a perceptive and beautifully wrought exploration of national identity, was a highlight of last year\u2019s festival circuit. Her previous films, screening as part of the spotlight, are no less revelatory.\n\nFor today\u2019s podcast, Film Comment editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish invited critics Leo Goldsmith and Chris Boeckmann to join us for an overview this year\u2019s Art of the Real, opening March 31 at Film at Lincoln Center. We kicked off the conversation with Diop\u2019s early films \u200b\u200bTowards Tenderness and The Death of Danton, before turning to other standouts including Jacquelyn Mills\u2019s Geographies of Solitude, Sharlene Bamboat\u2019s If from Every Tongue It Drips, David Easteal\u2019s The Plains, Peter Tscherkassky\u2019s Train Again, and more.