15 up-and-coming filmmakers you need to know about in 2022

‘Remi Weekes’s His House was a beautiful film. It was really scary and very moving, and I wanted to see more from that director and more of who he is. I thought it was horror that came out of a terrible situation, and it does what good horror often does and explores the imperfections of humanity – how flawed and vulnerable we all are.’ 

‘There’s so many. We’re producing a film by a young filmmaker named Raven Jackson, who is really awesome. And Charlie Wells and AV Rockwell... I programme short films at the Telluride Film Festival and many of these people haven’t made feature films yet, but when I watch their short films, I see the expressiveness in their work. It makes me think that cinema can’t end because these people have to tell their stories.’ 

‘I feel a bit funny answering this, since I’m an up-and-coming filmmaker myself but I’m excited by my fellow filmmakers with two films released into the world, like Ari Aster, Jennifer Kent and Julia Ducournau, among others. Natalie Erika James made an excellent debut film, Relic, and I’m looking forward to what she does next.’ 

‘There’s two filmmakers in Chile that we have been working with: Gaspar Antillo and Claudia Llosa. They’re very interesting and I see a gold future for both of them. Also, Iranian director Ali Abbasi who did Border. He’s just so original and so politically interesting. He has a vision that combines characters that come from different sources that's so poignant and so striking.’ 

‘Rose Glass... whatever she’s up to next, I’m there, day one. I thought Saint Maud was a knockout. When I met her, she said that I’d mentioned loving Dario Argento’s Suspiria in an interview and that she’d never heard of it until then. She said she’d watched it and it was a rabbit hole from which she’s never emerged. I get annoyed about the snobby idea that you have to know everything about film history – I went to art college rather than film school, and all my knowledge is a link from something contemporary going backwards.’–Edgar Wright

‘I like Rose Glass. And Robert Eggers. I just watched The Lighthouse. It was lovely to see something so economical and crazy. I was pretty knocked out by that. I met Barry Jenkins years ago at Telluride; he hadn’t made a film yet and we talked about films and really bonded. I think he’s an incredible filmmaker.’–Lynne Ramsay

‘Her debut is called Take Me Somewhere Nice. It’s original, both visually and in its content, and very confident. I’m really looking forward to her new film, Sweet Dreams. I am also happy that theatre director Florian Zeller has started to make movies. The Father and Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari were my favourite films of 2020.’