documentary

Melbourne International Film Festival 2021: Keeping The Dream Alive
Melbourne International Film Festival 2021: Keeping The Dream Alive

Reporting back from MIFF 2021, Sean Fallon reviews Come Back Anytime, Set!, Stray, Ablaze and The Witches of the Orient!

HOMEROOM: The Youth Of A Nation
HOMEROOM: The Youth Of A Nation

Homeroom is empowering and it is inspiring, bringing a fresh perspective to the events of 2020 and to the future.

Chris Marker Centennial Trio: Berlin Ballade, Blue Helmet, Prime Time in the Camps
Chris Marker Centennial Trio: Berliner Ballade, Blue Helmet, Prime Time in the Camps

Politically charged and historically conscious, Chris Marker’s fertile imagination makes him one of the cinema’s most transcendent artists.

UNDER THE VOLCANO: Music History in The Most Unassuming of Places
UNDER THE VOLCANO: Music History in The Most Unassuming of Places

Under the Volcano chronicles the life of “Fifth Beatle” Sir George Martin’s secret recording studio in the Caribbean.

THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES: Conservationist Peter Wohlleben Speaks for The Trees
THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES: Conservationist Peter Wohlleben Speaks for The Trees

In The Hidden Life Of Trees, conservationist Peter Wohlleben is a modern-day Lorax as he educates and speaks for the trees.

THE NEW BAUHAUS: The Legacy Of László Moholy-Nagy
THE NEW BAUHAUS: The Legacy Of László Moholy-Nagy

A creative exploration of the legacy of Moholy-Nagy, an artist who never became a household name and yet whose life’s work is nonetheless ever-present.

THE SURGE AT MOUNT SINAI: Humanity in the Heartache
THE SURGE AT MOUNT SINAI: Humanity in the Heartache

The Surge at Mount Sinai details the struggle early healthcare workers faced in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

BORDERLANDS: Human Stories Beyond Frontiers
BORDERLANDS: Human Stories Beyond Frontiers

In Borderlands, six lives have been woven together seamlessly to symbolize the continuum of life and inseparability of human agency.

Tribeca 2021, Report 2: Werewolves Within, The Kids, No Future & Ultrasound
Tribeca 2021, Report 2: Werewolves Within, The Kids, No Future & Ultrasound

In her final report, Kristy Strouse reviews Werewolves Within, The Kids, No Future & Ultrasound.

LFG: Equal Pay for Equal Play
LFG: Equal Pay for Equal Play

As a portrait of one of the higher-profile fights to close the gender pay gap, it gets the job done with gusto.

SOME KIND OF HEAVEN: Boomer Disney World
SOME KIND OF HEAVEN: Boomer Disney World

In Lance Oppenheim’s playful and otherworldly documentary, we get a peculiar glimpse of the lives of people seeking to escape into something utopian.

Tribeca Film Festival 2021: PRAY AWAY
Tribeca Film Festival 2021: PRAY AWAY

In Pray Away, viewers are led into the minds of those who founded, lead, and propagated one of the biggest conversion therapy developers.

THE SOUND OF IDENTITY The Artistic Pursuit
THE SOUND OF IDENTITY: The Artistic Pursuit

In the documentary, The Sound of Identity, Lucia Lucas is the first transgender woman to headline a major opera production

Tribeca Film Festival 2021: ACCEPTED
Tribeca Film Festival 2021: ACCEPTED

While Accepted examines the rise and fall of TM Landry, it’s also a multilayered look of the environment children are thrust into.

CPH:DOX 2021: KILLING ESCOBAR, RAISING A SCHOOL SHOOTER, A MAN AND A CAMERA, CANNON ARM AND THE ARCADE QUEST
CPH:DOX 2021: KILLING ESCOBAR, RAISING A SCHOOL SHOOTER, A MAN AND A CAMERA, CANNON ARM AND THE ARCADE QUEST

Musanna Ahmed takes a look at four films in our first installment of coverage at Denmark’s 2021 CPH:DOX Film Festival.