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Incoming

Ai Weiwei has made a sobering pandemic documentary in secrecy

by Charles Bramesco

The Chi­nese artist-filmmaker’s gor­geous, shat­ter­ing Coro­Na­tion qui­et­ly arrived online over the weekend.
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Festivals

Open City Documentary Festival announces its most inclusive line-up ever

by Lillian Crawford

Over half of the vir­tu­al 2020 edi­tion is com­prised of direc­tors who iden­ti­fy as female or non-binary.
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Review

My Rembrandt

by Lillian Crawford

Dutch film­mak­er Oeke Hoogendijk exam­ines the endur­ing appeal of the art world’s Old Masters.

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A new documentary shows a journalist risking it all for a greater truth

by Alex Westfall

A Thou­sand Cuts deft­ly chron­i­cles Maria Ressa’s ongo­ing strug­gle for a free press in her native Philippines.
Close-up of two people sleeping on a couch, with one person's head resting on the other's shoulder.
Review

Again Once Again

by Lillian Crawford

Argen­tine actor and author Romi­na Paula turns direc­tor for this sub­lime medi­a­tion on mid­dle age womanhood.

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Soldier in military uniform comforting another soldier, with a concerned expression on his face.
Review

Father Soldier Son

by Charles Bramesco

There’s a sense of cycli­cal despair at the heart of Leslye Davis and Catrin Ein­horn’s por­trait of the mod­ern day Amer­i­can veteran.

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Queer Cinema

Netflix’s Disclosure is just the start for trans*-positive representation

by Lillian Crawford

Sam Feder’s lat­est doc­u­men­tary, on Hollywood’s harm­ful trans­gen­der stereo­types, is a great con­ver­sa­tion starter – but we need to go further.
Two people in traditional Asian dress, a woman in a pink kimono with a red floral accessory and a man in dark clothing, in a lush green outdoor setting.
Review

Family Romance, LLC

by Tom Bond

Wern­er Her­zog delves into the strange world of a Japan­ese agency which spe­cialis­es in artifice.

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Two Asian men in formal attire, one wearing glasses, being interviewed by reporters holding microphones.
Festivals

A new documentary revisits the Tokyo gas attack 25 years on

by Matt Turner

In Me and the Cult Leader, film­mak­er and sur­vivor Atsushi Saka­hara con­fronts both his own trau­ma and that of a nation.
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Review

The Booksellers

by Anna Bogutskaya

The curi­ous world of rare book sell­ers is the sub­ject of this doc­u­men­tary from direc­tor DW Young.

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