Jennifer McArthur’s Family Tree is a fresh story told from a black perspective rarely glimpsed in ecologically minded documentaries.
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The relationship between a documentary filmmaker and their subject comes under close and decidedly emotional scrutiny in 7 Beats Per Minute, Yuqi Kang’s profile of champion free-diver Jessica Lu.
Born Hungry, a documentary about restauranteur Sash Simpson, is resoundingly successful at making the viewer realize anything is possible when talent is cultivated, nurtured, and supported in the right way.
A loving and progressively minded mother looks back on her fraught relationship to her own distant maternal figure in director Laurie Townshend’s enlightening, heartfelt, and empathetic A Mother Apart.
Angela Patton and Natalie Rae’s emotionally charged and lovingly crafted Daughters looks at a meaningful and potentially life altering form of rehabilitation for incarcerated persons, as four young girls and …
The fallout of the 2019 Iraqi Revolution and the emotional toll of living in the struggling city of Baghdad are seen from a youthful, creative perspective in filmmaker Maja Tschumi’s …
Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard looks at a subject close to her heart and field of study in her latest documentary, Singing Back the Buffalo, with mixed results. A filmmaker normally …
Filmmakers Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs utilize the power of the moving image as captured by everyday people around the world to document the impact of climate change in the …
A complex, observant, and bittersweet look at the nature of fulfilment viewed through the infrequently glimpsed lens of Bhutanese culture, Agent of Happiness ponders the value of joy and how …
A straight-forward, empathetic, and stylistically flashy documentary biopic about one of the finest voices in music history, Luther: Never Too Much doesn’t offer up anything all that new or revelatory …