Documentary
Documentary: Summer 2026

Documentary: Summer 2026

Cover: Fuera de Campo/Lucas Gallo (December) Features: Fictional Documentarians, Mandy Chang, Tikkun Olam Productions, Our Land, Theatrical Booking. Festivals: CPH:DOX 2026, Tawain International Doc Festival 2026. Columns: Letter from the Editor, Notes From the Real, What‘s in My Bag (XUE Ming), What‘s on My Desk (Qutaiba Barhamji), Screen Time.

by Manuel Betancourt, International Documentary Association, and 12 more

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Documentary: Greatest Docs of the 21st Century

Documentary: Greatest Docs of the 21st Century

Greatest Docs of the 21st Century: Top 25, Singular Picks

by Manuel Betancourt, International Documentary Association, and 28 more

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Documentary: Spring 2026

Documentary: Spring 2026

Cover: Scott McElwee (Remake). Features: Artegios Distribución, Fortuyn: On-Hollands, Melania, Meta’s ad restrictions, The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru, no-fly year. Festivals: IFFR 2026, Kolkata People’s Film Festival 2026. Columns: What‘s in My Bag (Katy Scoggin), What‘s on My Desk (Daniel Garber), Legal FAQ: Production Insurance, Screen Time.

by Manuel Betancourt, International Documentary Association, and 13 more

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Documentary: Winter 2026

Documentary: Winter 2026

Cover: Brittany Shyne (Seeds). Features: Sugar Studios, The Perfect Neighbor, Caribbean documentaries, nuclear documentaries, Julie Goldman, Impact Partners. Festivals: DOK Leipzig 2025, Ji.hlava 2025. Columns: Screen Time.

by Abby Sun, Sonya Vseliubska, and 13 more

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Documentary: Fall 2025

Documentary: Fall 2025

Cover: Petra Costa (Apocalypse in the Tropics). Features: Mstyslav Chernov on 2000 Meters to Adriivka, Brent and Craig Renaud, San Quentin Film Festival, David Osit on Predators. Festivals: Tribeca 2025, BlackStar 2025. Columns: Producer's Diary (In Waves and War), Screen Time.

by International Documentary Association, Sonya Vseliubska, and 6 more

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Documentary: Summer 2025

Documentary: Summer 2025

Cover: Heiny Srour (The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived, Leila and the Wolves). Features: PINKS, María Alejandra Rojas and Arturo Salazar, Katja Raganelli, Rintu Thomas on Writing With Fire. Festivals: Doc's Kingdom 2024, CPH:DOX 2025, Jeonju 2025. Columns: AI Tips for U.S. Documentary Filmmakers, Screen Time.

by Abby Sun, International Documentary Association, and 11 more

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Documentary: Spring 2025

Documentary: Spring 2025

Cover: an extended conversation between film writer Öykü Sofuoğlu and Johan Grimonprez, a filmmaker known for spending years and years researching projects and making wondrous use of archival material, on the worldwide release of his latest, Soundtrack to a Coup d’État. Special dossier: four articles on how policy could help documentary filmmakers.

by Abby Sun, and International Documentary Association

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