Film-Forward

Sometimes it’s enough for a film to be an unapologetic piece of advocacy journalism, as is the case with Patricia E. Gillespie’s absolutely heartbreaking documentary.

A nature documentary that finds beauty within the debris of New Delhi as two brothers rescue injured black kites.

This brief, fascinating documentary about incarcerated men who have been all but forgotten by the rest of the world, has itself been lost since 1987.

First, and most simply, this documentary retells the 2002 hijacking of state-owned TV channels in Changchun, China, through animation.

Elegance Bratton’s semi-autobiographical feature debut was the festival’s Closing Night selection.

Writer/director James Gray places a lot of responsibility on the slender shoulders of his young actors in this re-creation of his early 1980s upbringing.

A film staged, shot, and scored as a ghost story infused by a gothic atmosphere. Joanna Hogg avoids obvious jump scares while sustaining an unsettling environment.

This restrained biopic is one of the most thoughtful to come out of Hollywood in recent years.

Prolific photographer Ernest Withers chronicled the civil rights movement. He was also a longtime FBI informant.