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Documentary

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

Orla Smith / June 15, 2021

Learning about nonfiction isn’t just for documentary fans

Orla Smith explains how putting together the 2021 Creative Nonfiction Workshop has changed how she thinks about both fiction and nonfiction.

A still from the film Explant, which shows Michelle Visage lying in a hospital bed, recovering from surgery. The text in front of the image reads, "Review".

Orla Smith / June 14, 2021

Explant Review: An exposé on the breast implant industry

Jeremy Simmons’s documentary film, Explant, exposes the horrors of the breast implant industry alongside RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Michelle Visage.

Alex Heeney / May 22, 2021

In Luke Holland’s Final Account, Holocaust perpetrators reflect on their actions

Luke Holland’s Final Account introduces us to the last living generation of Hitler’s Third Reich to explore how they feel about their actions.

Alex Heeney / May 13, 2021

Visions du Réel 2021 spotlights nonfiction films pushing the form forward

The 2021 Visions du Réel film festival featured boundary-pushing nonfiction films, with highlights including Sheltered and Les Guérisseurs.

Alex Heeney / May 13, 2021

Visions du Réel Review: Pauline Julier’s documentary Way Beyond goes inside CERN

Pauline Julier’s 60-minute documentary Way Beyond takes us inside CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) to follow the planning process for the Future Circular Collider (FCC) projec

Alex Heeney / May 12, 2021

Visions du Réel Review: Captains of Za’atari

Ali El-Arabi’s Captains of Za’atari is a story of friendship and soccer between two Syrian refugees in Jordan.

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