Documentary movies

Set against the vibrant spectacle of the jaripeo, a symbol of Mexican cowboy tradition and machismo, this story unveils a hidden world of queer desire and quiet rebellion. As glances and gestures disrupt the rigid norms of masculinity, the rodeo becomes a stage for our protagonists to navigate identity, community, and the search for belonging in an oppressively traditional space.

Gibney’s “Knife” will explore Rushdie’s recovery “in the broadest sense”, according to a press release. Through Rushdie’s wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ personal footage, which has never been seen by the public, the doctor will follow the writer during not only his physical recovery but also the recovery of his spirit and hope for the future. In "Knife", Rushdie writes, “It’s a story in which hatred—the knife as a metaphor of hate—is answered and finally overcome by love.”

The story follows Kurdish forces' 18-month fight against ISIS from 2016-2017, highlighting women's role, international volunteers, key battles like Manbij and Raqqa, and civilian life under Kurdish self-rule.

A son of one of America’s wealthiest families creates a communist revolutionary base in rural Massachusetts as a means of disrupting the capitalist system he grew up in, but has now come to despise. It’s the starting point of an astonishing journey.

A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.

It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which childhood and ambition collide.

August, who lives in the small town of Blomstermåla, cannot do military service. But as Sweden rearms and Preparedness Week reaches the his small community, he is given the chance to explore both his own and others’ willingness to defend, in a disarming and humorous portrait of one of the defining questions of our time.

Tomas suddenly collapses and lies motionless on the floor. When he wakes up, life has changed, and he is no longer able to care for himself or his child. With great sensitivity and inventive visual storytelling, the film portrays his demanding struggle to reclaim his life.

From Tuesday to Friday, I see a lot of Ava McLoughlin. I love her; you will too. Here is what I see of Ava in a week.

One day, as you leave work and head home, something unexpected happens. Everywhere you go, paths begin to open and multiply. You can go anywhere you want, and with each place you choose, a new version of yourself emerges. You begin to disappear and in that disappearance you feel free: no longer being one, but becoming another, becoming many others. Individual experience gives way to the collective. A constant search for a place in the world. Walking toward the other, toward the unknown—yesterday, today, and tomorrow.