Skip to main content

Personal Docs

The construction of subjectivity in first-person documentary is given serious consideration in The Cinema of Me: The Self and Subjectivity in First
In this behind-the-scenes peek, journalist-turned-filmmaker Janay Boulos details how the idea for an urgent, political project about Lebanon became
In this interview, the filmmakers behind a personal doc that unearths the fraught shared history between France and Algeria talk about the parallels
On documentary, social practice, and learning from the educational obligation they share
In this interview, filmmaker Tom Fontenille talks about grappling with grief and needing to completely overhaul his queer family doc, A Secret Heart
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
In this interview, Sam Green talks about keeping pace with the Guiness World Records in his playful doc on aging, The Oldest Person in the World
Watch an exclusive clip from Dawood Hilmandi’s personal doc about his vexed relationship with his father, Paikar , screening at Hot Docs
In this interview, Ross McElwee discusses Remake, his first feature in over a decade, which focuses on the loss of his son and collaborator, Adrian