An image of the Dalai Lama gives diasporic texture to an otherwise anonymous suburban American house; the camera tracks to ...

When I first discovered the works of Jean Rouch, Robert Gardner, and Timothy Asch—academic anthropologists who opted to make ...

High in the Pyrenees, a centuries-old way of life approaches its twilight amid a controversial rewilding scheme. France’s ...

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 actor-director.

If last year’s Maryland Film Festival felt like a trial run for a new era of Baltimore’s cornerstone film event, the 26th ...

Originally published February 27, 2024, just following the Berlin International Film Festival, this interview with No Other Land‘s directors Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham is being republished today, as ...

Entering to a standing ovation at a Friday-night screening of Mikey and Nicky at New York’s Metrograph on December 6, Elaine May looked out at the full house. “I was told this entire audience is made ...

The nonprofit Sundance Institute today announced in a press release details for the 2026 Sundance Film Festival’s annual fundraiser, Celebrating Sundance Institute: A Tribute to Founder Robert ...

Microbudget independent horror is certainly having a moment. Kyle Edward Ball’s experimental haunted house flick Skinamarink has grossed $2 million to date on a $15,000 budget, and 17-year-old ...

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