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  • Luma is a female cow with black-and-white spots on her body. From Andrea Arnold’s ‘Cow.’ Courtesy of Kate Kirkwood. An IFC Films release.
    May 18, 2022

    Andrea Arnold's 'Cow': The Searing Romance and Reality of Nature

    Cow opens with its protagonist, Luma, mid-labor in a cattle barn where she delivers her newborn calf, Malu. The audience observes the beauty of
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  • Akuol de Mabior is a South Sudanese female filmmaker, whose film ‘No Simple Way Home’ played at SFFILM 2022. Courtesy of SFFILM.
    May 17, 2022

    New Voices Stand Out at SFFILM, America's Longest-Running Film Festival

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  • ​A woman wearing a hat and glasses, with shoulder-length hair, stands on a street and holds a sign that reads "LA Jails are the largest mental health institutions in the country." From Kenneth Paul Rosenberg’s 'Bedlam.' Courtesy of 'Independent Lens.'
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    Screen Time: Week of May 16, 2022

    Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Over the past few years,
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  • Luma is a cow with black-and-white patches on its body. She is standing in a cowshed and we can see only the front portion of her body. From Andrea Arnold’s ‘Cow.’ Courtesy of Cow Films Ltd. An IFC Films release.
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  • Headshot of John Zaritsky, a white male filmmaker, with gray hair. He is wearing a purple sweater and tan jacket. Photo courtesy of Matt Carr/Getty Images.
    May 11, 2022

    Death Comes for the Filmmaker: John Zaritsky, Oscar-winning Documentarian

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  • A middle-aged Filipino male activist sits on a fallen tree trunk; he is wearing shorts and a blue t-shirt that says "Palawan para-EnviFORCER." . Photo from Karl Malakunas' 'Delikado.' Courtesy of Hot Docs.
    May 10, 2022

    Screen Time: Week of May 9, 2022

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  • Claude Motley, a middle-aged Black man, sits in front of a bookcase speaking to a woman who is sitting with her back to the camera. A BTS shot from Brad Lichtenstein’s ‘When Claude Got Shot.’ Courtesy of the filmmaker.
    May 9, 2022

    Crime & Punishment: The Sentencing Scene in 'When Claude Got Shot'

    In 2014, Claude Motley got shot in the face during an attempted car-jacking in Milwaukee. The shooter was 15-year-old Nathan King. A few days later,
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  • A silhouette of a woman holding a child against a sunset sky. From Hnin Ei Hlaing’s 'Midwives,' which recently played at Hot Docs. Courtesy of Hot Docs.
    May 6, 2022

    Essential Doc Reads: Week of May 2, 2022

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  • Young Afghani boys, Afshin and Benjamin, sit with their backs to the camera looking out at the city of Kabul. From Aboozar Amini’s ‘Kabul, City in the Wind.’ Courtesy of Movies that Matter.
    May 5, 2022

    Movies that Matter Spotlights New Documentaries by Afghan Filmmakers

    August 15, 2021 marked the Taliban’s capture of the Afghan capital of Kabul, culminating a shockingly swift offensive that began in May. The Taliban
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  • An image of a woman holding a cigarette, but her face is blurred. From Carl Elsaesser’s ‘Home When You Return,’ which is playing at Prismatic Ground. Courtesy of the festival.
    May 4, 2022

    Poetics and Politics Define Prismatic Ground Festival

    Founded in 2021, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Prismatic Ground is a glimmer of hope for experimental nonfiction cinema in a tumultuous period. Inney
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