Documentary Film
The director of the Oscar-nominated documentary, Jesus Camp, releases her first narrative film.
The director of the Oscar-nominated documentary, Jesus Camp, releases her first narrative film.
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 documentary filmmaker and memoirist discuss intersections in their storytelling processes.
An elegant portrait of a mother pig.
Cinematic portraits of the Indonesian lengger dancer and choreographer, Rianto.
The filmmakers question the conventions of documentation with work that seeks transparency and authenticity outside of the fiction–nonfiction dichotomy.
On the murder of a performance artist set out to heal a war-torn world.
Decade of Fire is a remarkable tale of the Bronx’s rise from ash, standing to set the record straight about the fires that ravaged the borough in the late ’60s and ’70s.
The filmmaker on her 1995 film BloodSisters documenting San Francisco’s leather-dyke scene.
Mexico City’s sonidero scene finally gets the documentary it deserves.
Cypriano’s documentary Born to Be follows the profound journeys of several patients and doctors at the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.
A final, reflexive work from the godmother of the French New Wave.
I never made a decision to become a film editor—or, in any case, I didn’t decide upon it at a young age and follow a single career path.
The two Chinese-born filmmakers reflect on Wang’s new documentary One Child Nation and her unique approach to blending the personal and political.
A film about departures, the kind without return.
The pioneering filmmakers discuss morality and dissent in Hara’s highly subjective documentaries: “It takes a toll to discover what binds your heart to the subject.”
The Singaporean filmmaker on migrant labor; visitations; and his recent work, A Land Imagined.
The filmmakers take an unexpected approach to documenting people in the final stage of life.
The artist and documentarian on capturing the vernacular South.