documentary
Kedi is a joyful documentary that features the cats in Istanbul, Turkey, and the special connection they have with the city’s humans.
Fear Itself is a series of montages of famous horror films, though it misses out on probing just why we are fascinated by being scared.
I Am Not Your Negro is a documentary based on the works of activist James Baldwin, and is overall a powerful examination of race in America.
The Empowerment Project is a feel-good documentary, made by women travelling the country and interviewing strong women in positions of power.
After Fire focuses on a female veteran named Valerie Sullivan, discussing how women in the military deal with trauma after coming home from war.
The Seasons in Quincy is a series of four essays that each paint a portrait of the late John Berger, an extraordinary and versatile artist.
Cameraperson interweaves many distinct stories brought to the screen by Kirsten Johnson; it is an unwavering work and truly worth your time.
We talked with Katrina Parks about her documentaries about the history of women of the west, and her upcoming film, The Women On The Mother Road.
With Hitchc*ck/Truffaut, Kent Jones has created a meticulous and perceptive work in which essay, commentary and conversation overlap, charting the strange synthesis of reverie and technique which constitutes the art of filmmaking.
The documentary Off The Rails tells the unusual story of a man with Asperger’s whose extreme love for transit has landed him in jail 32 times.
With the spectre of white nationalism once again rearing its ugly head in the guise of the so-called ‘Alt-Right’, Matthew Ornstein’s profile of the musician, author, actor and lecturer Daryl Davis, Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America couldn’t be more relevant. Davis has an unusual hobby for a black man:
The New Man is a fascinating insight into modern fatherhood, male identity, cultural expectation and the torturous path of late parenthood.
The humor in Capture is one of its best qualities. This isn’t the humor that comes from telling a good joke, but rather from the spontaneous situations that the people find themselves in.
From director Brian J. Terwilliger comes the National Geographic documentary short, Living in the Age of Airplanes. It was an easy sell for me, as I’ve enjoyed numerous aviation and spaceflight documentaries tailored for “edutainment”.
The brave Rwandan women and the inspiring conclusion of The Uncondemned make it a heartbreaking, human, and empowering watch, and it reveals an important part of forgotten history.