The fact-and-fiction-bending documentary Crestone is an offbeat look at friendship and creativity.
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A Premature Celebration of the Ascension of Black Artists
Black Art, HBO’s documentary on Black visual artists, unwittingly demonstrates what a community gives up when it strives toward the mainstream.
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Restored Short Films by and About Djibril Diop Mambéty, a Giant of African Cinema
Metrograph is streaming two shorts by the Senegalese director, as well as Laurence Gavron’s documentary about his process.
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Stream This Dystopian Animation, Where Mob Violence Is Only a Right Swipe Away
“I want us to confront our own biases and all the ways in which we enact power over others,” explained filmmaker Arafat Mazhar of his cautionary tale of technology and intolerance in Pakistan.
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The Truth About the Black Panther Party, Beyond the History of Misinformation
A new biopic of Fred Hampton has put the Panthers back in the spotlight. Learn more about them with these documentaries.
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Michael Rakowitz’s Recreations of Art Taken From Iraq
Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of Art21’s Haunting the West, a short film about Rakowitz’s artistic efforts to end the marginalization of West Asian art and history.
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When a Con Artist Tried to Sell the “Car of the Future”
The HBO true crime miniseries The Lady and the Dale argues that it’s just as important to highlight trans outlaws in addition to role models.
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Minari Isn’t Really About the American Dream. It’s About US Empire.
In Lee Isaac Chung’s drama, immigration should be considered through the lens of displacement and diaspora, with its characters exhibiting resilience rather than assimilation.
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Two Women Fall in Love in 1800s Upstate New York
The World to Come distinguishes itself from the recent spate of historical queer romances with poetic dialogue and a dreamy tone.
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Does Humanity Live in a Simulated Reality?
Rodney Ascher’s A Glitch in the Matrix surveys people who suspect that the world around us is an illusion.
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Collective Dreams and Women’s Voices at the New York African Film Festival
This year’s virtual edition of the New York African Film Festival includes both experimental gems and several Oscar contenders.
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Enlightening Documentaries About Language
These films explore Yiddish, sign language, and Noam Chomsky’s linguistic theories.