Film-Forward

Documentary

To Kill a Tiger

An absorbing documentary about an Indian family’s revolutionary fight for justice.

Silver Dollar Road

Raoul Peck peers into the predicament of a Black family who wants to reclaim their long-owned waterfront property in North Carolina, which is threatened by developers.

The Mission

A dense and informative documentary about Christian missionary John Allen Chau’s doomed encounter on the isolated North Sentinel Island.

Joan Baez I Am a Noise

The candid biographical documentary of the iconic folk singer and social justice crusader.

Carlos

Director Rudy Valdez, in succinct 87 minutes, touches on many aspects of Carlos Santana’s life and six-decade career.

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

Filmmaker Mark Cousins takes a road trip to Cannes, and down film’s memory lane, with producer Jeremy Thomas.

Four Daughters | TIFF 2023

Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania cleverly strips off layer after layer of a family history in this engrossing, intimate, and expansive documentary.

Radical Wolfe

An entertainingly appreciative, if ultimately unsatisfying, documentary on the writer, who, through his work, “could be a terrorist.”

Invisible Beauty

Fashion docs tend to be fawning anyway, but this one has a subject worthy of fawning over.