Paris’s last associative cinema reopened in January under an ownership structure its creators designed to outlive them
Collectives
With Time Machine Maidan, the Ukrainian film collective Babylon’13 blends the immediacy of its own vast war archive with an artful take on a sci-fi
Fuera de Campo, a political initiative committed to showcasing Argentine cinema, found a fitting 2025 opener in Lucas Gallo’s televisual archive doc
Three core members of Tikkun Olam Productions on unlearning the conventional model and what the nonprofit collective making movement-aligned work
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 interview, Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana talks about his focus on Guatemalan grooms in his Independent Lens doc, Backside: The Unseen Hands of Horse
The creative disassembly of the Golestan Film Workshop, Iran’s first independent film studio
Newly restored documentaries from the 1950s–1980s reveal how Caribbean filmmakers forged a liberation cinema and why its practices matter now
Formed over two decades ago, a Korean queer feminist collective “putting aesthetics into praxis” considers streaming and festival success
Documentary is pleased to announce that the Disability Media Alliance, or DMA, has launched today. Incubated through IDA’s own Nonfiction Access Initiative (NAI), DMA came about after research to address enduring inequities in the documentary community.