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Since Donald Trump’s stunning win in the 2016 presidential election, many in the documentary field are asking the same question: Are nonfiction filmmakers, and the profession in general, out of touch with a huge swath of fellow Americans, and if so, where do we go from here?
MORE ›Follow Bernz Benedito and Ladlad, the only LGBT political party in the world, on the campaign trail as they seek Congressional seats in the Philippines.
MORE ›From director Todd Douglas Miller comes a cinematic event fifty years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 70mm footage, and more…
MORE ›Good Night Oppy tells the inspirational true story of Opportunity, a rover that was sent to Mars for a 90-day mission but ended up surviving…
MORE ›After a young woman is allegedly raped, her family faces a flawed justice system to take her case
to trial.
Brooklyn artist Steve Keene knows his genius is in the numbers as he prepares for another day of assembly line painting. He walks the dogs,…
MORE ›In the heart of Appalachia, an environmentalist and a former pro-coal activist join forces to protect their home from the industry that’s divided their community for decades.
MORE ›The unintended consequences of good intensions become evient when a pastor in an oil boomtown opens his doors to desperate and disillusioned jobseekers.
MORE ›This energetic film unpacks the complex history of home ownership in America to reveal the postwar housing economy’s racist underpinnings—the creation of a large middle class simultaneous with the systematic defunding and segregating of communities. World Premiere
MORE ›From Machiasport, Maine, to Palo Alto, California, people are talking about the weather. But can they do anything about it? This poetic, ironic, and beautifully…
MORE ›Former Almadén mercury miner Pablo spends his halcyon days cursing, kvetching, and chainsmoking
to the chagrin of his wife and his doctor.
The Lonely Planet tourist guidebook suggests bringing food and sundries to inmates at the women’s prison in Quito, Ecuador. Some of the women there were…
MORE ›With unprecedented access, this film documents the inner workings of the Media Desk of the New York Times. An up-close examination of the changing world of journalism, from the viewpoint of America’s most venerable newspaper.
MORE ›After two works by Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova are stolen from her solo show in Norway, the police find the thieves, but not the paintings. At the trial, Kysilkova forges a connection with one of the defendants when she asks him to pose for a portrait. As the two confront the complications of their pasts and presents, their precarious friendship evolves in unexpected ways.
MORE ›A fascinating and witty cinematic portrait of a gigantic Soviet-era edifice and its denizens in
Warsaw, Poland.
Environmentalists and former anti-nuclear activists on three continents reflect upon their changes-of-heart about the safety and tremendous potential of nuclear energy.
MORE ›The mercurial doorman at a Parisian nightclub exercises his arbitrary authority over who is allowed to enter and who is not.
MORE ›“Imagine your body telling your brain it doesn’t want it in there anymore,” says Reade Whinnem, “and then doing everything it can to try and…
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