Film-Forward

Documentary

Hollywoodgate

An extremely rare exposé of an under-reported story and an opportunity to have an inside look into Afghanistan.

Eno

Most of the standard hallmarks of music documentaries go out the window here.

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.