Ira Sachs

Watching an Ira Sachs film is a special type of experience. His work carries an air of authenticity, a naturalistic and unabashed look at characters and stories that don’t often get screentime in bigger studio movies. In Keep the Lights On Sachs told a story about addiction and intimacy through the lens of two men’s long-term relationship...

Few filmmakers capture male relationships with as much compassion and New Yorkers with as much authenticity as Ira Sachs does. In ‘Little Men,’ the follow-up to 2014's ‘Love Is Strange,’ the filmmaker once again looks at two lives pulled apart by financial woes and the New York housing system. In the 2014 drama his leads were a newlywed gay couple forced to move out of their Manhattan apartment, and in his latest Sachs shifts his focus to two teenage boys caught in the middle of a lease dispute.