On the occasion of Documentary’s Greatest Docs of the 21st Century list, we ask: What grants someone the authority to assert an opinion on what is the
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Documentary’s “Greatest Docs of the 21st Century” lists are filled with documentary portraits that flatter and model a way of looking at the world
The 79th edition of the French festival offered some nonfiction gems for those willing to look beyond its headline titles
Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig on why he prioritized the personal over the political in his Mongolian mining doc, Colors of White Rock
Guillaume Massart talks about his new doc, Detention , where he dissects the French carceral system without once stepping foot in a prison
A new program on Cinema-ye Azad, an underground filmmaking movement that emerged in Iran in 1969, foregrounds its relationship to documentary practice
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