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Disability Rights Activists, a Radical Reimagining of Social Institutions, and the Summer Camp That Made It Possible—’Crip Camp,’ dir. James Lebrecht & Nicole Newnham, 2020

A summer camp inspired by Woodstock allowed kids with disabilities to find their voices and a sense of community. Then, these kids led the movement towards an accessible, open social landscape for all

May 27th, 2020|Country: USA|

A Father’s Secrets, War Crimes, and a Daughter’s Return to Liberia—‘Daddy and the Warlord’, dir. Shamira Raphaëla, 2019

A striking documentary follows journalist Clarice Gargard to her homeland, as she investigates the connection between her beloved father and Charles Taylor, one of Africa’s most prominent warlords

May 14th, 2020|Country: Aruba, Liberia, Netherlands, USA|

A Mesmerizing Walk through Chinookan Heritage and the Forests of the Pacific Northwest—‘maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore,’ dir. Sky Hopinka, 2020

An enchanting nonfiction exploration of Chinuk Wawa language, identity, and family that weaves together myth and personal experience from an innovative indigenous artist and filmmaker

May 10th, 2020|Country: Chinook Nation, Ho-Chunk Nation, Native American tribes, Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians, USA, Water|

Lynching in America, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow—‘Always in Season’, dir. Jacqueline Olive, 2019

An unsettling, indispensable documentary on the legacy of lynching that juxtaposes memory of historical cases with a recent one and asks the questions that the American society evades

May 6th, 2020|Country: USA|

The Bard of Simplicity Travels the Americas—Juan Wauters, ‘La Onda de Juan Pablo,’ 2019

Montevideo-born Queens-based artist takes his incomparable aesthetic for a spin in his native region, creating an album of enlightened simplicity with musicians scouted in Central & South America

April 28th, 2020|Country: Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, USA|

One Candidate’s Race for Office and Against the Disenfranchisement of Arab-Americans—‘Brooklyn Inshallah’, dir. Ahmed Mansour, 2018

A chronicle of a city council nomination campaign reveals complex truths about diversity, belonging and 9/11's traumatic heritage in Bay Ridge, one of NYC's most prominent Arab-American enclaves

April 23rd, 2020|Country: Palestine, USA|

Migrants Playing the Waiting Game In the Shadow of the Border Wall—‘Chèche Lavi’, dir. Sam Ellison, 2019

A portrait of two Haitian men seeking admission into the US in Tijuana becomes a complex reflection on the Beckettian nature of immigration’s bureaucracy and the sacrifices it demands

April 19th, 2020|Country: Haiti, Mexico, USA|

The Other Pandemic—‘Bedlam’, dir. Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, 2019

An unflinching look at the mental illness health crisis that is ravaging the United States in a documentary made by a practicing psychiatrist who has encountered mental illness in his private life

April 1st, 2020|Country: USA|

The Magnificent Pencil Pushers: The Planet’s Leading Miniature Carvers Working on the Sharp End, Part 2

There is no topic that those micro sculptors with mad skills can't pencil in: from Baby Yoda to endangered species, from complex engineering to the taboo of menstruation.

March 30th, 2020|Country: Bashkortostan, India, Russia, Taiwan, Tamil Nadu, USA, Vietnam|

Fuzzy Fur and Fuzzier Ethics of Taxidermy: ‘Animus Animalis’, dir. Aistė Žegulytė, 2018 & ‘Stuffed,’ dir. Erin Derham, 2019

Two woman-made documentaries about people’s relationships with dead animals offer looks on the matter from various parts of the world and across the moral spectrum

March 19th, 2020|Country: Canada, Lithuania, Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, USA, Zimbabwe|

Penciled In for Greatness: The World’s Foremost Micro Sculptors and Their Extreme Graphite Skills, Part 1

The art of carving pencil tips produces tiny works with a myriad of complexities, from potent minimalism to the lush wilderness, from pop-culture references to Dali and Banksy

March 17th, 2020|Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, United Kingdom, USA|

Avian Enthusiasts Find a Place of Their Own and Reach for the Limelight— ‘Pigeon Kings,’ dir. Milena Pastreich, 2020

A melodic sketch of a subculture of pigeon devotees in South Central LA ruminates on the essence of greatness and care

March 16th, 2020|Country: USA|

The World’s First Intersex-Made Narrative Film is a Rare Delight—‘Ponyboi’, dir. River Gallo & Sadé Clacken Joseph, 2019

A sensual, exquisite tale about love and self-acceptance blends dreamscapes with reality and centers around a Latinx sex-worker, who, just like the co-creator and lead River Gallo, is intersex

March 15th, 2020|Country: Antigua and Barbuda, El Salvador, Jamaica, USA|

An Intriguing Look Into France’s Labor Dynamics in Winemaking Documentary—‘Vas-y Coupe!’, dir. Laura Naylor, 2019

A winemaking family, seasonal laborers and grapes blighted by a fungus in this rigorous documentary that offers an outsider's exploration of the grind that goes into each glass of wine

March 12th, 2020|Country: France, USA|

Hoarding Is Political: A Civil Rights Activist and the Prolific TV Archive She Created—‘Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project,’ dir. Matt Wolf, 2019

A meticulous profile of Marion Stokes, whose obsession with collecting TV footage became a lifelong crusade against the biases of mass media

March 10th, 2020|Country: USA|