Documentary filmmaker Lynn Sachs on her latest, “Every Contact Leaves a Trace,” in which she remembers seven life-altering ...

Mario Patrocínio’s Maria Vitória is the writer-director’s first narrative feature, but it brings the chops of his documentary ...

Benita may not have left a note when she took her life, but her archive was a kind of trail — what I call a “filmmaker’s ...

Andres Veiel’s “Riefenstahl” is an arresting and deeply disturbing all-archival portrait of the titular Third Reich ...

The nonprofit Sundance Institute today announced in a press release details for the 2026 Sundance Film Festival’s annual ...

In 2021, the Tokyo International Film Festival decided to leap out of mediocrity. It was, acquaintances told me, previously the kind of place where they’d show Princess Diaries 2 for red-carpet ...

Writer-director Avalon Fast discusses her sophomore feature CAMP, which centers on a group of “gorgeous misfits” working at a Canadian summer camp.

On the cusp of every autumn for the last 21 years, the Camden International Film Festival becomes the center of the nonfiction world, offering a kind of community campfire in the midst of the seasonal ...

If there is a giant who sits astride the history of Uzbek cinema, it’s Ali Khamraev, one of those rare talents like Welles or ...

Alex Winter and Tom Stern’s 1993 cult classic Freaked is less an example of “high” and “low” art commingling than of pop- and-sub-cultures colliding. At the precipice of marquee fame after headlining ...

Director Sky Hopinka on”Powwow People,” “a vérité-style doc grounded in the rhythms, relationships, and lived experience of a contemporary Native gathering.” ...

For a film about the end of the world, Mare’s Nest is hardly lugubrious. Then again, you could say the same about Ben Rivers’s entire oeuvre. Few directors who’ve kicked off their careers after the ...