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Documentary

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

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.

Alex Heeney / May 12, 2021

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 officials during a crucial historical event.

Alex Heeney / May 11, 2021

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 Home offers a slice of life inside a hospital right after the worst stage of the pandemic.

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