Film-Forward

Documentary

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.

Lift

Viewers don’t need to know a jeté from a plié to enjoy this moving dance documentary.

Viva Varda! | TIFF 2023

Pierre-Henri Gibert is the first director to take on the biography of maverick filmmaker Agnès Varda, apart from Varda herself.