Film-Forward

Documentary

Queendom

The life of Jenna Marvin, a queer performance artist from Russia, is captured in this bold and sobering documentary.

Flipside

The film is about this store and the director’s attempt to make sense of a life that he has not, thus far, spent the way he intended.

Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

The documentary doesn’t shy away from Lynes’s sublime nude photography, rather it ravishes in it, as if to visually reclaim a suppressed history.

Taking Venice

An engaging look back when American culture was used to combat communism.

Resistance: They Fought Back

A tribute to the Jewish resistance as well as a radical pushback against misconceptions that Jews accepted their fate in ignorance or without a struggle. On the contrary, they gave the Nazis hell.

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

Girlfriend of Rolling Stone member Keith Richards, the onetime model and starlet established herself as a style icon and a symbol of 1960s born-to-be-wild madness, for better or worse.

The Contestant

The bizarre 1998 Japanese phenomenon that established the template for reality TV in the 21st century.

Uncropped

The documentary profiles photographer James Hamilton, an artist who seems to have lived a Bohemian dream.

Mourning in Lod

The documentary follows three families in the fallout of two tragedies and one godsend.