Film
The filmmaker discusses her documentaries on Iranian women resisting the current of tradition.
The filmmaker discusses her documentaries on Iranian women resisting the current of tradition.
Embracing simultaneity between traditional lineages and contemporary media.
The director of the Oscar-nominated documentary, Jesus Camp, releases her first narrative film.
Investigating the bias of vision, unnerving advances in surveillance, and the sociopolitical consequences of a changing digital landscape.
Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker (World of Wonder) a documentary by Chris McKim, pays tribute David Wojnarowicz, capturing the care and ferocity of the AIDS activist and artist.
Rosine Mbaka’s film Delphine’s Prayers (Tândor Films) documents her friend—a fellow Cameroonian immigrant in Brussels—as she reckons with the aftermath of sexual violence.
Nanfu Wang’s documentary In the Same Breath (HBO) chronicles the COVID-19 pandemic, its paradoxical propaganda, and how China and the US “responded to the spread of the coronavirus by protecting their public image above all else.”
The filmmaker’s latest work is a deeply personal story of family loss in which art-making becomes a tool for repair.
The documentary filmmaker and memoirist discuss intersections in their storytelling processes.
An elegant portrait of a mother pig.
The filmmaker on her latest work, Terra Femme, made up of amateur travelogues by women in the 1930s–50s.
The author of French Exit on collaborating with Azazel Jacobs in adapting the book to film.
Camilo Restrepo’s debut feature, Los Conductos, traces the wanderings of a wiry mendigo named Pinky, in a sepulchral unnamed city.
Prvački releases three wry videos offering coping strategies for our bleak and awkward new social reality.
The filmmaker on unpacking a forty-year friendship, turning the form on its head, and pizza as a madeleine to a lost city.
Cinematic portraits of the Indonesian lengger dancer and choreographer, Rianto.
The Mosotho filmmaker on oral literature, forced resettlement, and stitching together the old and new.
The filmmakers question the conventions of documentation with work that seeks transparency and authenticity outside of the fiction–nonfiction dichotomy.
For this particularly challenging year, we’ve asked Garrett Bradley, Courtney Stephens, Alex Strada, Ephraim Asili, Nicholas Elliott, Mary Lucier, Tania Cypriano, Alan Licht, and Nina Menkes to tell us what sustained them.
A young Japanese journalist shooting a televised travel program in Uzbekistan confronts her deepest fears and hidden aspirations.