Something is revealing in contemporary cinema’s recurring fixation on the fantasy of defeating death. Technology now sells longevity as an…
Dongnan Chen’s documentary “Whispers In May” listens keenly and with abundant empathy to children cloven within the interstices of an…
“Daughters of the Forest” (2026, “Hijas del bosque”), a new documentary that premiered at CPH: DOX, offers a closer look…
The logline of a documentary usually grows out of two things: the subject’s background and the impulse behind their actions….
Growing up in a place you were not born in can be agonizing and quite disorienting. You would always try…
Jukka Kärkkäinen’s “The Beauty of Errors” (2026) is a deeply affecting portrait of a family grappling with shifting roles. How…
There’s been no shortage of documentaries about the Beatles in recent years, as the momentous restoration of the legendary “Get…
One thing that always fascinates me about German filmmaker Werner Herzog is the amount of curiosity he brings to every…
The one thing that grabs your attention almost immediately in “The Bulldogs” is its eye for beauty. One of its…