Venice’s robust nonfiction selection revealed filmmakers grappling with inheritance—of land, literature, trauma, and the weight of documenting lives
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In this interview, Gianfranco Rosi discusses Below the Clouds, his approach to nonfiction, and recent works’ political turn
In this interview on his collage film Holofiction, Michal Kosakowski discusses Holocaust cinema symbols in the present day
In this interview, Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini discuss their migration-focused Waking Hours and their reasons for filming in darkness
With films like The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 (2011) and Concerning Violence (2014), Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson has become known for his
While the Venice film festival is widely treated as an awards platform for starry auteur-driven dramas, its little-known secret is a modest but strong nonfiction selection. Even without counting the Wang Bing film in competition, which screened too late for many critics (including this one) to cover, this year’s crop was remarkable for the breadth and variety of the nonfiction approaches.
What happens when three’s a crowd in a marriage? One possible answer, as Elizabeth Lo finds, is to sneak in a special fourth person. In her sophomore