The poetry and horror of globalisation and manual labour are beautifully evoked in this haunting doc-fiction hybrid.
By Matthew Eng
An emotional, vital account of the tragic 2012 mass shooting from documentary maker Kim A Snyder.
An endless spiral of crime and punishment is the subject of this raw and rambling documentary.
Meet Eugene Cernan, the last man to lay his feet on the lunar surface, in this doc on the impossibility of the American Dream.
Meet Palestine’s only all-female motorsport team in this insightful documentary form Amber Fares.
This hard-hitting portrait of a notorious white supremacist raises some challenging questions about modern America.
Director Grant Gee’s cinematic love letter to Istanbul doubles as a profoundly moving study of memory.
Ever dreamed of one day scaling Mount Everest? This powerful doc about a Nepalese community will make you reconsider.
Directors William Fairman and Max Gogarty deliver a vital exposé on a dangerous new trend within the gay community.
The horrors of sleep paralysis are explored in a playful and provocative manner by director Rodney Ascher.
This lyrical, on-the-fly road movie about the cinematic and poetic value of daily existence is a must see.
An popular uprising in Ukraine is captured by the calm, collected director Sergei Loznitsa in all its abject horror.
By Mark Asch
One of cinema’s Old Masters returns with this poetic and profound dissection of art and storytelling.
By Jordan Cronk
Claude Lanzmann’s devastating appendix to his epochal Holocaust documentary, Shoah, is a vital piece of cinema.
This surprising winner of the Venice Golden Lion is a quaint, amusing if not particularly life-altering slice of Italian psychogeography.
By Jordan Cronk
Federick Wiseman brings his insightful and layered filmmaking to one of America’s most liberal institutions.
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