In Daughter of a Lost Bird, Brooke Swaney sensitively documents an Indigenous woman reconnecting with her birth mother and coming to terms with how colonial violence has shaped her life.
Documentary
Explore the innovative and artistic strategies documentarians use to narrativize nonfiction stories on screen.
Berlinale Review: Alice Diop documents the Paris suburbs in Nous
Alice Diop’s documentary Nous is a portrait of Paris, told through intimate vignettes of citizens living in the suburbs.
Sundance Review: San Francisco students stress over college applications in Try Harder!
Debbie Lum’s documentary Try Harder! follows students at Lowell, a high-achieving SF high school with a predominantly Asian student body.
Acasă, My Home raises tough questions and avoids trite answers
Radu Ciorniciuc’s documentary Acasă, My Home follows the Enache family, whose patriarch has decided to live outside conventional society.
Helicopter parenting reaches new extremes in Chasing Childhood
In Margaret Munzer Loeb and Eden Wurmfeld’s documentary Chasing Childhood, American parents navigate how much freedom to give their children.
Indie Memphis 2020: From Cane Fire to Smooth Talk
Indie Memphis Film Festival 2020 showcased genre films (I Blame Society, Freeland), documentaries (Cane Fire), and restorations (Smooth Talk).