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Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski's observational documentary film In Ukraine provides a glimpse of quotidian life in a war zone. We interview Tomasz Wolski about …
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Erik Gandini works with documentary images and sounds as if he's making a musical in his creative nonfiction film After Work, a look at varying attitudes to …
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The documentary film An Inhabited Volcano offers a personal look at the 2021 La Palma volcano eruption through WhatsApp messages. Discover more creative …
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In this interview, writer-director Chie Hayakawa talks about asking tough questions and avoiding sentimentality in her first feature, Plan 75. She also …
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Alex Heeney reviews the new Criterion Collection Blu-Ray release of Joan Micklin Silver's Chilly Scenes of Winter.Despite (or perhaps because of) the Criterion …
Kelly Reichardt discusses Showing Up, her most optimistic film to date, and the importance of getting to know locations, creating silences, and throwing out the …
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