Newly restored documentaries from the 1950s–1980s reveal how Caribbean filmmakers forged a liberation cinema and why its practices matter now
Docs about Politics
Sinéad O’Shea talks about the challenges of capturing Fergie Chambers’s many contradictions in All About the Money
Abby Ellis talks about ringing the alarm on the “environmental nuclear bomb” in Utah with her Sundance doc The Lake
In this interview, Fil Ieropoulos discusses his documentary-cum-manifesto, Avant-Drag! Radical Performers Re-Imagine Athens
DOK Leipzig 2025: Doc Together, ‘The Thing to Be Done,’ ‘Elephants & Squirrels,’ and ‘A Scary Movie’
The world’s oldest documentary festival continues its commitment to an equitable world, from supporting exiled filmmakers to its programming
IndieCollect’s Sandra Schulberg reflects on the life of fellow co-founder Jill Godmilow, the iconoclastic filmmaker, beloved teacher, and influential
Working with over 1,000 hours of archival footage, Ian Bell and Alex Megaro connect their record of Seattle’s 1999 mass protests, WTO/99, with present
Petra Costa’s new documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics explores the “fatal marriage” between Christian nationalism and authoritarian politics
In this interview, Lee Anne Schmitt discusses how Evidence uses childhood objects and family memories to investigate the propagation of conservative
In Tatyana Tenenbaum's Everything You Have Is Yours, we see dancer Hadar Ahuvia as she develops her performance by the same name, the culmination of years spent celebrating her own Jewish identity while also challenging Israeli tradition. After its theatrical run in NY, Documentary spoke to Tenenbaum about adapting her work in dance documentation to documentary, dance film tropes, and political activism in a nonverbal art form.