Film-Forward

Documentary

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.

Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill

Why isn’t this singer-songwriter more well known today? This is the question the documentary sets out to answer.

On the Adamant

Last year’s Golden Bear winner is a documentary about a facility where the mentally ill can pursue a variety of artistic and artisanal activities.