Film
The Japanese Town That's Been Fighting Industrial Pollution for Decades
MINAMATA Mandala, the latest documentary by veteran filmmaker Kazuo Hara, captures the resilience of people left behind by their government.
Documentary
Film
Illuminating Professional Wrestling's Most Unsavory Episodes
The docuseries Dark Side of the Ring is a much-needed corrective to the official story wrestling tells about itself.
Film
50 Years of Films About Japan's Downtrodden
Japan Society's online retrospective Cinema of Struggle features eight movies from director Kazuo Hara and producer Sachiko Kobayashi.
Film
Raoul Peck's Frustratingly Incomplete Treatise on Colonialism
For all its bluntness, Exterminate All the Brutes never once utters the words “rape” or “capitalism.”
Film
A First-Person Interrogation of a Family's Guilt-Ridden Past
A combination video essay and road movie, Angelo Madsen Minax's documentary North By Current understands life upheavals as rites of passage.
Interview
Theo Anthony on How the History of Cinema Led to the Modern Surveillance State
The filmmaker talks to Hyperallergic about his documentary All Light, Everywhere and incorporating theory into his practice.
Film
Sundance Institute Awards Grants to 18 Documentary Film Projects
The institute has allocated funds to projects about Black motherhood, conversion therapy, and more.
Film
One of the Oldest Queer Film Festivals Returns for Pride
The Frameline Film Festival is bringing back its in-person events.
Film
Werner Herzog's Vampires, Mirages, and War Recreations
Check out these highlights of Metrograph's new series "Whole Lotta Herzog," collecting 16 of the eccentric director's films.
Film
The Post-Communist Cinematic Landscape of Eastern Europe
Sergei Loznitsa's expansive filmography is a great entryway to films from Ukraine, Poland, Russia, and more which grapple with the legacy of the Warsaw Pact.
Film
An Astonishingly Intimate Film Takes Us Deep Into the Woods
Filmed over 10 years, Mindaugas Survila’s The Ancient Woods avoids the usual trappings of anthropomorphism.
Film
Elena Is a Proud Celebration of Haitian Heritage in the Dominican Republic
Michèle Stephenson’s documentary short finds beauty in qualities of Haitian life which the Dominican government scorns.