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Documentary

Explore the innovative and artistic strategies documentarians use to narrativize nonfiction stories on screen.

Alex Heeney / May 2, 2023

Visions du Réel Review: Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski’s In Ukraine

Tomasz Wolski’s observational documentary In Ukraine is the best and most harrowing film I’ve seen about the Ukraine War because it focuses on the banal.

Alex Heeney / April 27, 2023

Visions du Réel & HotDocs Review: Erik Gandini’s After Work

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 work around the world.

Alex Heeney / April 26, 2023

Visions du Réel Review: An Inhabited Volcano

The documentary film An Inhabited Volcano offers a personal look at the 2021 La Palma volcano eruption through WhatsApp messages.

Alex Heeney / September 9, 2022

TIFF Review: Patrick and the Whale

Patrick and the Whale is a delightful doc about a man who just wants to be friends with sperm whales.

Alex Heeney / September 8, 2022

Ten must-see shorts at TIFF 2022

Our annual feature on the best must-see shorts at TIFF 2022 highlights films from around the world and across forms, including Bigger on the Inside and The Flying Sailor.

Lindsay Pugh / June 9, 2022

Cannes Film Review: Manuela Martelli’s 1976 ratchets up the tension

Manuela Martelli’s feature debut, 1976, which she co-wrote with Alejandra Moffat, is equal parts character study and taut political drama. The film 1976 screened in the Director’s Fortnight sidebar at Cannes 2022.

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