The 79th edition of the French festival offered some nonfiction gems for those willing to look beyond its headline titles
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Guillaume Massart talks about his new doc, Detention , where he dissects the French carceral system without once stepping foot in a prison
A BAFICI retrospective on Pere Portabella highlights the Catalan filmmaker’s longstanding affinity for documentary practice
At the 55th edition, documentaries on displacement and genocide reveal the festival’s constrained relationship to political change
By reframing the political rise and shocking assassination of Pim Fortuyn, mint film office’s archive-driven docuseries Fortuyn: On-Hollands slowly
Watch the trailer for Tom Adjibi’s debut documentary satire, which begins as the video diaries of a biracial actor before Adjibi takes things into his
Seven decades of nuclear documentaries oscillate between state propaganda and radical witness, revealing more about power than atoms
A new Raymond Depardon retrospective presents the full breadth of the French filmmaker and photojournalist’s keen-eyed documentary impulses
German director Marie Wilke discusses her observational principles at Europe’s largest military training ground, where war is meticulously rehearsed
This year’s When East Meets West market at Trieste framed its program not in terms of scale or prestige, but of precision