In this interview, the trio behind the Tribeca doc The Haunting of Pennhurst discuss the challenges of braiding together the story of an infamous asylum that’s now both a haunted house and a museum of disability history

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 best, or the most important?

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

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 queer nature doc seen

Želimir Žilnik discusses six decades of work from his early films to Eighty Plus, and their piercing, political critiques of Yugoslavia and modern-day Serbia

A BAFICI retrospective on Pere Portabella highlights the Catalan filmmaker’s longstanding affinity for documentary practice