When I first discovered the works of Jean Rouch, Robert Gardner, and Timothy Asch—academic anthropologists who opted to make films rather than books about their research subjects—my appreciation ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

In the 1999 mini-series Storm of the Century, a malevolent stranger (played by noted Canadian Colm Feore) shows up outside Stephen King’s longtime fictional community of Castle Rock and repeatedly ...

Last year, to celebrate POV’s 25th anniversary, Filmmaker organized a series of conversations between documentary directors whose work had been featured on the PBS non-fiction showcase. This year, we ...

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 ...

In the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe entry Thunderbolts*, a reluctant squad of antiheroes team up to save New York City. Behind the scenes, another superteam comprised of A24 alumni joined forces.