By Juan Barquin
Will Ferrell and his best friend Harper Steele embark on a cross-country road trip, reflecting on Steele's experiences as a recently out trans woman, in Josh Greenbaum's meandering but sweet documentary.
By Maes Kerr
Maria Mire directs this innovative documentary about Margarida Tengarrinha, a member of the Portuguese Communist Party during António de Oliveira Salazar's premiership.
An abandoned CIA base in Kabul becomes a playground for the resurgent Taliban in Ibrahim Nash’at's intriguing piece of documentary reportage.
By Callie Petch
The latest documentary about the Britpop comeback kings sadly doesn't reveal much that we didn't already know from previous film outings.
By Esmé Holden
Spanish philosopher Paul B Preciado makes his feature documentary debut with an innovative homage to Virginia Woolf's seminal 1928 novel.
By Rogan Graham
Lina Soualem’s poignant new documentary traces the stories of four generations of Palestinian women in her family.
A rousing personal journey with Martin Scorsese through the films made under the iconic banner of The Archers.
Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson set out to investigate the implications of the camera, from its invention to the present day, with mixed results.
By Xuanlin Tham
Neo Sora creates a beautiful portrait of his late father, filmed just before he passed away from cancer in 2023.
Ben Mullinkosson captures the agony and the ecstasy of Chinese club kids in this ode to one of Chengdu's underground queer spaces.
Kevin Macdonald gives his subject enough rope in this slippery documentary about how we project a sense of regret.
The latest documentary from Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania centers a quartet of young women whose lives are changed forever when two of them join ISIS.
Steven McQueen provides a haunting examination of Amsterdam under Nazi occupation in contrast to its present in his documentary adapted from Bianca Stigter's book of the same name.
Jeanie Finlay profiles writer and activist Aubrey Gordon, whose eponymous blog unexpectedly led her to become an online sensation.
The latest from British non-fiction filmmaker Marc Issacs offers an ethereal cross-cut of working class lives in deepest Essex.
Thomas von Steinaecker flips the camera on one of Germany's favourite filmmaking sons, investigating his long and far-reaching career.
The life of the idiosyncratic US sexologist is parlayed into a story of rank misogyny and violent moral conservatism.
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