'The Missing Picture' screens February 20 as part of IDA's The Art of Documentary screening series.
Docs about War
China’s first documentary Oscar submission, The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru, demonstrates how “independent” can become an economic designation divorced
At the 55th edition, documentaries on displacement and genocide reveal the festival’s constrained relationship to political change
Watch the trailer for Olga Chernykh’s Visions du Réel premiere The Illusion of a Quiet Night , a nocturnal portrait of Ukraine filmed in a single
Watch the trailer for Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s documentary on a pacifist community in western Ukraine grappling with war and natural disasters
Seven decades of nuclear documentaries oscillate between state propaganda and radical witness, revealing more about power than atoms
German director Marie Wilke discusses her observational principles at Europe’s largest military training ground, where war is meticulously rehearsed
In this interview, Kevin B. Lee discusses why he needed to expand the desktop documentary to craft his feature debut, Afterlives
In its first edition under Artistic Director Isabel Arrate Fernandez, IDFA highlighted documentaries that cross borders both geopolitical and
Hilla Medalia’s new short observes a weekly vigil in Tel Aviv in memory of children killed in Gaza