Judd Apatow and Neil Berkeley's documentary follows Maria Bamford at a strange moment: successful enough to matter, fragile enough to break. Paralyzed by Hope runs 115 minutes and never feels long. It's an honest film…
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Vera Miao's debut ties a ghost story to the Rock Springs massacre of 1885, when Chinese miners were murdered in Wyoming. This history lives in the present through three generations of women. The film doesn't…
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Sharon Liese's documentary Seized is built entirely around the August 2023 police raid on the Marion County Record in Kansas. The raid itself carries the surreal tenor of authoritarian spectacle. Officers converged on the newspaper,…
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Georgia Bernstein's debut unfolds in a memory care facility. Eleni, a caregiver, is drawn to Douglas, a resident sliding into dementia. What develops could have been exploitative. Instead it becomes something harder to categorize, a…
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Tony Jones gained access to the University of Washington’s animal research laboratory, a space rarely open to cameras. The film is neither advocacy polemic nor corporate defense. It’s an examination of the moral gap between…
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Edward Lovelace and James Hall follow Courtney Love in London since 2019. The film presents something rarely found in celebrity documentation: genuine uncertainty. Neither hagiography nor excavation, this is a document of a woman negotiating…
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Josephine Decker's Chasing Summer is a film at war with itself. Decker wants to make something bleak and formally risky. Iliza Shlesinger's script wants to make people laugh. The two impulses never quite align, and…
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Olive Nwosu's feature debut Lady arrives as a neo-noir meditation on urban survival that finds grace within Lagos's teeming streets. The film follows Ujah, a taxi driver navigating the precarious economy of sex work from…
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Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth made this film as Marianne Faithfull was dying. She died in January 2025, during production. This fact transforms what could have been biography into something else entirely, a memorial. Straightforward…
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