William Greaves feels like a fictional character, hatched in the mind of an African-American writer who contributes regularly to the New Yorker. It almost strains credulity that someone can manage to release one of the year’s best films 12 years

DOC NYC, the world’s largest documentary film festival, has announced the lineup for its influential, distinguished Short Lists section for the 2026 edition, along with the Winner’s Circle section slate, which celebrates certain award winners from this year. Short Lists

Impressively ambitious in scope, Josh Fox’s humbly titled The Welcome Table finds the environmental activist-filmmaker-writer-musician on a globetrotting journey across six continents, spotlighting the stories of climate refugees. The Oscar-nominated multihyphenate (2010’s Gasland) then brings this multicultural bunch together around

Impressively ambitious in scope, Josh Fox’s humbly titled The Welcome Table finds the environmental activist-filmmaker-writer-musician on a globetrotting journey across six continents, spotlighting the stories of climate refugees. The Oscar-nominated multihyphenate (2010’s Gasland) then brings this multicultural bunch together around

In his new documentary, Holding Liat, director Brandon Kramer follows an American-Israeli family in the middle of the worst crisis imaginable: the kidnapping of relatives on October 7, 2023, by members of the terrorist organization Hamas. The titular Liat Atzili

Pulp fans are a patient people. We’ve waited years between scant albums and tours. Their most recent album More, is only their 8th LP since they formed as teenagers in Sheffield, England in 1978. It was their first new album

One film that came out of nowhere and set the film community on fire is Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's documentary, You Can See Everything. Announced as a surprise world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, the film follows Fielder

After diving into his childhood in his 2022 coming-of-age drama Armageddon Time, writer-director James Gray isn’t done going back in time to his NYC roots. Having premiered at this year’s Cannes and set as the Opening Night film for this year's

Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, cinematographer Marine Atlan's directorial debut La Gradiva is a sun-kissed coming-of-age drama that transports viewers to the streets and ruins of Naples. It follows a group of