lex Heeney picks 8 must-see short films at TIFF 2024 from around the world.
Creative Non-Fiction
Creative Non-Fiction is often a more appropriate word for describing innovative forms in documentary filmmaking, which go beyond mere information dump. Here you'll find reviews of films that are pushing the form and interviews with non-fiction filmmakers about making non-fiction works of art.
The 15 best films of 2024 so far
Alex Heeney reflects back on the best films of 2024 so far.
The Everyday Philosophy of Migrants in Raúl Paz-Pastrana’s Border South
Raúl Paz-Pastrana’s 2019 documentary film Border South takes a De Certeauian view of migrants as ingeniously capable, tenacious, and agentive subjects whose minute, everyday actions allow them to confront the powers that be and take advantage of situations.
HotDocs 2024: Animated documentaries are here to stay
Alex Heeney takes a look at some of the animated documentaries that screened at HotDocs 2024, including Pelikan Blue, The Day Iceland Stood Still, Grand Theft Hamlet, and Silent Trees.
Visions du Réel Review: No Other Land
Alex Heeney reviews the documentary No Other Land, one of the highlights of the Visions du Réel Festival. (It also screened the Berlinale.)
Berlinale Review: Klára Tasovská’s I’m Not Everything I Want to Be
Klára Tasovská’s inventive documentary I’m Not Everything I Want to Be chronicles the life of photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková as she tries to become who she wants to be amidst oppression.