Documentaries

  • Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round

    CIVIL RIGHTS: With a title taken from Langston Hughes' famous anti-segregation poem of 1942, Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Ilana Trachtman tells the fascinating, little-known story of…

  • RFK: Legacy

    USA: Politics, memory, and media collide as Eisenhower’s warning, Garrison’s theory, and RFK’s appeal meet RFK Jr.’s claims of institutional failure.

  • Toni, My Father

    PHILOSOPHY: From prison rituals to 1970s utopias, Anna Negri’s film reframes Toni Negri beyond labels, tracing conatus, family conflict, and the power of happy…

  • Henden – Requiem for a Photographer

    PHOTOGRAPHY: Norwegian war photographer Harald Henden spent his life documenting the stories of others – usually at their hardest moments. Now, he is the…

  • Ghost Elephants

    NATURE: With Ghost Elephants, Werner Herzog creates another work within his transgressive anthropology.

  • Rijeka or Death! Fiume o Morte!

    HISTORY: A crowd-sourced, carnivalesque reconstruction of Rijeka 1919–20, Rijeka or Death! dismantles D’Annunzio’s cult and exposes the roots and afterlives of fascism.

  • The Tale of Silyan

    NATURE: The Oscar-nominated Macedonian filmmaker Tamara Kotevska returns with a luminous documentary fable that extends her ongoing meditation on a pressing homeland concern: the…

  • The Dialogue Police

    HUMAN RIGHTS: An experiment in protecting democracy and free speech, while maintaining public order, Sweden's Dialogue Police mediate between protestors and regular police to…

  • The Long Road to the Director’s Chair

    GENDER: Restored 1973 footage from Berlin’s Women’s Film Seminar amplifies women’s voices on authorship abortion rights and power still urgent in today’s media.

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