Ali El-Arabi’s Captains of Za’atari is a story of friendship and soccer between two Syrian refugees in Jordan. Read all of our Visions du Réel …
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Documentary
Explore the innovative and artistic strategies documentarians use to narrativize nonfiction stories on screen.
Tomasz Wolski’s documentary 1970 mixes animation and archival
In his new documentary, 1970, Tomasz Wolski uses stop-motion animation and archival footage to illuminate telephone conversations between top communist …
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Visions du Réel Review: My Place is Here is an inside look at COVID-19 in an Italian hospital
Set in March 2020, Italy, Michele Aiello's My Place is Here offers a slice of life inside a hospital right after the worst stage of the pandemic. One …
HotDocs 2021 highlights, from Indigenous stories to animated histories
Seventh Row's editors pick the must see films of HotDocs 2021, from Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning Of Empathy to Archipelago. Read all our HotDocs 2021 …
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HotDocs Review: Who We Are: Chronicle of Racism in America
In the documentary Who We Are: Chronicle of Racism in America, ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jeffery Robinson guides us through the history of racism in America …
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HotDocs Review: One of Ours explores identity under colonialism
Yasmine Mathurin's One of Ours is the story of Josiah Wilson, a Black twentysomething born in Haiti where he was adopted by a pair of Canadians — a white mother …
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