When Fred Rogers sang the iconic title song of Won’t You Be My Neighbor? at the beginning of the documentary, a chorus of audience members singing along rose up...
Along with the creeping destabilization of the Middle East and the spiraling growth of the war economy, the American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq also help...
Late in Makala, lead subject Kabwita, exhausted after innumerable tribulations, enters a church for spiritual renewal. The preacher declaims that the Book of Jo...
The story of Sergei Dovlatov is the kind of tale we’ve heard before. A writer who grew up in the USSR, Dovlatov fled his home country in 1979 after failing to a...
For Dutch teenager Jasmine (Georgiefa Boomdijk), her homeland of Suriname (a northeastern South American country) is a footnote. She knows little about it or th...
In director Ted Geoghegan’s debut We Are Still Here, the subtlest horrors came from quiet images of nature. Within its context, creaking trees and beautiful lan...
There's multiple ways to tell stories depending on the message you wish to instill. So when the subject you're tackling concerns a country like Swaziland with a...
Throughout the remarkable Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? – director Travis Wilkerson’s attempt to learn more about and confront the murder of the African Ame...
A blend of documentary, fiction, staged therapy, and biography–with considerable full-frontal nudity and sex–the surprise winner of the Berlinale’s Golden Bear ...
From the years 1973 to 1981 the great film critic Serge Daney held the position of editor of Cahiers du cinéma, that most revered and storied of film journals. ...
