Film-Forward

Documentary

Maestra

This transporting film has a reach beyond classical orchestra lovers.

Copa 71

A rousing and absorbing look back at a phenomenon that quickly crested and just as quickly disappeared.

How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer packed more eventful living into a single lifetime than a dozen men.

High Tide; Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story; Mad About the Boy; Merchant Ivory | Provincetown International Film Festival 2024

The festival featured beguiling documentaries about a wide range of entertainers and the vibrant Provincetown–set High Tide.

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.