Naomi Kawase’s Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A avoids the usual tropes and cliches of sports films, focusing instead on how the athletes are rounded people, as well as the beauty fleetingness of athletic achievement
Documentary
Explore the innovative and artistic strategies documentarians use to narrativize nonfiction stories on screen.
Navalny film: Investigating your own murder on film is bizarre
Daniel Roher’s documentary Navalny is an entertaining and thrilling film about the Russian politician who challenged Putin and paid the price.
Quick thoughts: The abstract recollections of My Two Voices
Lina Rodriguez’s poetic documentary My Two Voices follows the stories of three Latin American women, in their own words. My Two Voices premiered in the Forum section of the 2022 Berlinale.
Quick thoughts on Mija: What does the American Dream mean to immigrant families?
In Mija, director Isabel Castro follows young Mexican-American music manager Doris Muñoz, as she rebuilds her career.
Quick thoughts: All That Breathes is a stunning climate change parable
All That Breathes, a Sundance 2022 highlight, is a gorgeously-shot documentary about two brothers in New Delhi who have dedicated their lives to healing injured black kites.
Quick thoughts from Sundance: The Mission is an empathetic look at missionary work
Tania Anderson’s documentary The Mission follows a group of young American Mormons as they embark on two years of missionary work in Finland.