EXCLUSIVE: With Oscar nomination voting underway, Apple TV+ is releasing an unseen portion of its documentary feature contender Boys State.
The film, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, goes inside the annual Boys State event in Texas where a thousand high school…
EXCLUSIVE: The brutal civil war in Yemen has become a proxy fight between Saudi Arabia and Iran, each regional power backing rival forces in the contest for control over the Middle Eastern country. As always in war, those who suffer the worst are innocent civilians.
Skye Fitzgerald's Hunger Ward, the Oscar-shortlisted…
The Oscar-shortlisted short documentary A Concerto Is a Conversation is a classic two-hander, the kind of story with two protagonists of equal importance.
In this case the characters are Horace Bowers Sr., a 92-year-old entrepreneur in South Los Angeles, and his grandson, 31-year-old Kris Bowers, a much sought-after…
A romantic notion persists that after the Nazis conquered France in 1940 almost the whole French nation rose up heroically to join the Résistance. Not so, as the Oscar-shortlisted short documentary Colette affirms.
"There was 1-percent of the population who were actually resisting," producer Alice Doyard notes of the…
For LGBTQ people in Chechnya, life has become a nightmare.
The Russian republic has never been very hospitable to gays, but in 2017 the Chechen government launched an outright purge against perceived members of the LGBTQ community.
"People in Chechnya who are suspected of being lesbian, gay or bisexual, are facing a…
Time, the most honored documentary of the past year, has been described as a film about mass incarceration. That's true enough, but director Garrett Bradley sees another theme at its heart.
"Time in my mind is a love story," she tells Deadline. "It’s a story about a 21 year pursuit to unify a family."
The love story…
Of the many types of documentary films, Oscar-nominated director Gianfranco Rosi has identified one genre he describes as "complaining and explaining."
"There’s someone complaining," Rosi observes, "and then there’s someone explaining to you why they’re complaining."
That's not his school. When Rosi settles on a theme…
Imagine a mother raising a large family, nurturing her children from birth, tending to their every need, only to have them plucked from her, not knowing where they've been taken. Imagine the mother's panic and worry.
This is the scenario of Gunda, the Oscar-shortlisted documentary by Victor Kossakovsky. Does it matter…
Sue Kim, director of an Oscar-shortlisted short documentary about competitive Rubik's Cubers, can solve a complex storytelling puzzle in under 40 minutes.
In The Speed Cubers Kim rotates between two main characters—Australian Feliks Zembegs and American Max Park, two of the fastest to ever solve cubes in…
In the span of just 13 minutes, the Oscar-shortlisted short documentary Hysterical Girl unpacks a lot.
The film directed by Kate Novack not only elucidates one of Sigmund Freud's most famous case histories—on a suicidal teenage girl the psychoanalyst called "Dora"—but how Freud's writing about her continues to impact…
EXCLUSIVE: MTV Documentary Films is adding Skye Fitzgerald's Hunger Ward to its portfolio of Oscar-contending films.
The MTV division led by Sheila Nevins announced Tuesday it has acquired the short film, a devastating look at children suffering starvation in Yemen as a direct result of war in the Middle Eastern…
Italy's Piedmont region is a country for old men, to judge from the new documentary The Truffle Hunters.
In the Oscar shortlisted film, a colorful group of aged characters, most in their 80s, traverse the hilly countryside often in the middle of the night, accompanied by their trusty canine companions. Man and dog, uom…
