Camden International Film FestivalJacquelyn Mills’s portrait of her grandmother is at once abstract and intimate.Joan Alma Mills sits with her husband at a small table in their Nova Scotia home. The e…
Camden International Film FestivalJacquelyn Mills’s portrait of her grandmother is at once abstract and intimate.Joan Alma Mills sits with her husband at a small table in their Nova Scotia home. The e…
Camden International Film FestivalZiad Kalthoum’s cinema soars above Beirut to capture the uncanny experience of absence.Many documentary filmmakers find their most compelling artistic truth in the “s…
Camden International Film FestivalZiad Kalthoum’s cinema soars above Beirut to capture the uncanny experience of absence.Many documentary filmmakers find their most compelling artistic truth in the “s…
Filmmaker Megumi Sasaki shows how neither the media craze nor the dolphin hunt has ceased.It has been more than seven years since The Cove won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film …
Billed by some as a prequel to ‘Citizenfour,’ Laura Poitras’s new film has a much more complex relationship to her previous work.In October 2012, Lady Gaga paid a visit to Julian Assange at the Ecuado…
Let’s leave the issue film and its accompanying straw men behind. A new Cinematic Nonfiction is already here and it has brought some giant owls.Documentary critics have a tendency to describe good fil…
This bold new experimental feature is a documentary of its own making.Jacques Rivette once said that every film is a documentary about its own making, an observation that has become quite the convenie…
Surire, Site of Sites, and Black Sun are highlights of this year’s Neighboring Scenes showcase.Salt flats are truly bizarre ecosystems, fields of mineral deposits under vast expanses of sky. The Salar…
Nonfics editors share their favorite nonfiction films of the year.“It’s been a great year for docs” has become a cliché, and that’s a good thing. The merits of individual list-toppers are always up fo…
