A new program on Cinema-ye Azad, an underground filmmaking movement that emerged in Iran in 1969, foregrounds its relationship to documentary practice
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In this essay, filmmaker Everardo González questions the narrative promises of the true crime genre and calls on a new kind of ethics in telling
The 16th edition continued the London fest’s commitment to experimental works as well as archival presentations that insist on their own urgency
Second Nature director, Drew Denny, and co-producer Jennifer Steinman-Sternin talk taking theatrical distribution into their own hands to get their
Želimir Žilnik discusses six decades of work from his early films to Eighty Plus , and their piercing, political critiques of Yugoslavia and modern
As mergers and media corporations squeeze doc divisions, veteran nonfiction producers seek partners and pivots
A BAFICI retrospective on Pere Portabella highlights the Catalan filmmaker’s longstanding affinity for documentary practice
Daily diaries from a first-time director navigating the Visions du Réel financing market, praising the event’s intimacy and her “comrades-in-stress”
João Dumans on choosing people over terrain in The Night and the Days of Miguel Burnier —and what vérité can show that catastrophe images can’t
Nikolaus Geyrhalter on shooting Melt across four continents, his adoption of new imaging technologies, and why he won’t call it a climate film