Joseph Gatti’s documentary film, “Phenomena,” tries to distill the mysteries of the universe within its 90-minute duration. Gatti begins it…
I remember the first time I ever heard of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was on MTV—I want to…
“Birita,” a documentary that premiered at the CPH: DOX festival, sees filmmaker Búi Dam exploring his personal life through the…
The Colorado River is already a landscape of overuse and administrative control: tens of millions depend on it, most of…
“The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” (2026) isn’t as malicious as it is misguided. The film is…
Rachel Taparjan’s documentary “Something Familiar” (2026) maps deep, bristling emotional wounds across the contours of family and time. There’s a…
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…