The men and women hold signs, but do not speak. Words in Hebrew on their placards — each bearing the face of a child — do all the talking: "Ahmed Abu Sief, 9 yrs old. Was and is no more, May 7, 2025." "Ghazal Ismail Mahmud Abu Layla, 7 yrs old. Was and is no more, June 20…

UPDATED to reframe the relationship between Ajike Owens and filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir. "She had big dreams," Pamela Dias says of her late daughter, Ajike Owens, a working mother of four who was raising her kids in Ocala, FL. "She would kind of toss around different ideas, entrepreneurial…

Iran's rich cinematic history has yielded multiple Oscar wins in recent years for narrative/fictional work, as well as a 2026 nomination in the Best International Feature category for Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident. But an Iranian-made documentary had never earned an Oscar nomination …

Mstylav Chernov, the Oscar-winning 20 Days in Mariupol documentarian, war correspondent and writer, has been tapped to receive the Writers Guild of America West's 2026 Paul Selvin Award in recognition of his writing on his latest documentary 2,000 Meters to Andriivka. The honor will be bestowed…

EXCLUSIVE: Criterion Channel has acquired Alison McAlpine's Oscar-nominated short documentary perfectly a strangeness, winner of multiple awards around the world. The streaming platform plans a March debut for the film that features a trio of non-human leads. "In the dazzling incandescence of an…

Professor Reiko Hillyer has taught at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR for over 20 years, but it's a course she conducts away from campus that has put her at the center of an award-winning documentary, the Oscar-shortlisted short film Classroom 4. The classroom of the title is located…

Purple hair ties stretched over a door handle. SpongeBob plush toys arranged neatly on a bed. Unicorn figurines, a Champion brand hoodie, charm bracelets, seashells. These are some of the items left behind in the bedrooms of children killed in school shootings in the United States. Parents of…

EXCLUSIVE: The stirring soundtrack to Oscar-shortlisted documentary Yanuni, recorded on three continents, will be released on major music streaming platforms on Wednesday, including Spotify and Apple Music. The soundtrack is composed by H. Scott Salinas with the support of Argentinian composer…

Netflix and filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir scored big as the Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary Feature was released this morning. Netflix landed three films on the shortlist of documentaries that will continue in the race for an Oscar nomination: The Perfect Neighbor, directed by Geeta Gandbhir; Cov…

There are tattoo artists, and then there is Tran Ngoc. What makes the woman from Hanoi, Vietnam so unique, apart from her talent, is her canvas: she has become known in her country for crafting tattoos around scars on the bodies of her clients. Ngoc's work is explored in the…

One by one, they ascend the craggy peaks, barefoot, gingerly searching for toeholds. Once they reach a suitable perch, they hurl themselves into the air before gravity pulls them to the turbulent ocean below. These are the famous La Quebrada Cliff Divers of Acapulco, known for their daring…

No one can say for certain how many so-called Amerasian children were fathered during the Vietnam war in relationships between U.S. soldiers and Vietnamese women. Some estimates put the number at 100,000, others even higher – perhaps half a million. What is known for certain is that those…