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Two young Iranian girls sit closely together and look into the lens of a camera. They are pictured in closeup.

A World of Creative Documentaries at IDFA 2025

by Megan Durnford
November 21, 2025
Festivals

Highlights from IDFA 2025 include documentaries like A Fox Under a Pink Moon, Synthetic Sincerity, Flood, All My Sisters, and Memory.

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A husband and wife sit together on a bus. She is resting her head on his shoulder and he looks out the window. They are both white and wearing glasses and in their early 60s.

Walk with Me Review: A Caregiver’s Guide to Alzheimer’s

by Nidhil Vohra
July 28, 2025
Reviews

Walk with Me documents the life of Charlie Hess after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease when his wife Heidi Levitt becomes his primary caregiver.

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Tamara Segura Opens Familial Wounds in Seguridad

by Rachel Ho
April 25, 2024
Hot Docs/Interviews

An interview with Seguridad director Tamara Segura about revisiting her past and getting her family to discuss painful memories of her father.

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Hiam Abbass and Lina Soualem Explore Family and Memory in Bye Bye Tiberias

by Pat Mullen
September 16, 2023
Interviews/TIFF

An interview with Bye Bye Tiberias director Lina Soualem and star Hiam Abbass about their documentary on family, memory, and finding home.

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Maite Alberdi on The Eternal Memory: The Year’s Best Love Story

by Pat Mullen
August 17, 2023
Features/Interviews

An interview with The Eternal Memory director Maite Alberdi on telling the enduring love story of Paulina Urrutia and Augusto Góngora.

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The Eternal Memory Review: A Portrait of Unwavering Love

by Pat Mullen
January 23, 2023
Reviews/Sundance

The Mole Agent's Maite Alberdi delivers another touching portrait of aging with a golden years love story in The Eternal Memory.

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Tantura Director Alon Schwarz Talks Memory and Healing

by Jason Gorber
January 24, 2022
Interviews/Sundance

Tantura offers a metaphorical dig through Israel's painful history and national mythology.

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Night Shot Review: Poetic Justice

by Pat Mullen
November 26, 2020
Reviews

Night Shot (Visión Nocturna) (Chile, 80 min.) Dir. Carolina Moscoso “I’m very sorry about the situation,” a participant writes, “but I hope your wounds heal outside the law.” This message appears among

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Waxing Poetic

by Pat Mullen
September 6, 2019
Features/Interviews/TIFF

The Physics of Sorrow is Theodore Ushev's most ambitious and significant project to date as it offers a time capsule for a generation told using an unprecedented animation technique.

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Martin Scorsese’s ‘Rolling Thunder Revue’ is the ‘Seinfeld’ of Documentaries

by Pat Mullen
June 11, 2019
Reviews

If Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue was about nothing, then Martin Scorsese has made the Seinfeld of documentaries by chronicling it. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese is at

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At the world premiere of #BlackSunflowers! 🇺🇦 Hug At the world premiere of #BlackSunflowers! 🇺🇦

Huge standing ovation for story of young Ukrainians soldiers, ravers, and photographers in wartime.

Executive producer Sean Penn introduces, while director James Marcus Haney reads a letter from Sofia, a soldier who couldn't attend, and a local Ukrainian choir sets the mood. 👏👏

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The TIFF Docs reviews are rolling in! Expect to h The TIFF Docs reviews are rolling in!

Expect to hear a lot more about these films in the fall circuit:
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"You only need two buyers to make a bidding war." "You only need two buyers to make a bidding war."

Full house for the State of Documentary panel at TIFF: The Market. Despair and optimism with equal measure. 💰

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A hero's journey comes full circle in MAN IN MOTIO A hero's journey comes full circle in MAN IN MOTION: THE RICK HANSEN STORY. 👩‍🦼

Director Adrien Buitenhuis tells @filmfest_ca how the doc came to be. 

📽 premieres today at @tiff_net 
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Drink deep with #LowLiesTheLand. Emanuele Gerosa t Drink deep with #LowLiesTheLand. Emanuele Gerosa tells us about "slowly, slowly" observing hard working hands in Piemonte's wine region. 🍇

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After her acclaimed shorts, Carol Nguyễn delivers After her acclaimed shorts, Carol Nguyễn delivers a confident, deeply moving feature debut with STILL NIGHT, BURNING HOUSE. 

📽: premieres at @tiff_net & @viffest 
📖: Read about it in issue 126!
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Call it the art of collaboration. 🍃 THE HUMMINGBI Call it the art of collaboration. 🍃

THE HUMMINGBIRD PAINTS FRAGRANT SONGS directors Matteo Norzi and Èlia Gasull tell us about  being inspired by artist Sara Flores. 

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🔗 interview link in bio

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Authentic on and off the field, #Rapinoe captures Authentic on and off the field, #Rapinoe captures the story of a soccer star who fought for women's equity. ⚽️

@susangcole gets the story from director @rebecahuntt ahead of the film's #TIFF26 premiere!

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