Genre: Political

Visiting Kosovo with her father, a filmmaker reenacts memories from his childhood to help him reconcile youthful traumas in this lyrical documentary.

From the Oscar-nominated director of Fire at Sea comes an immersive and impressionistic portrait of communities living in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.

A wry portrait of a new wave of Irish folk musicians unafraid to confront their country’s colonial and conservative past.

From the Oscar-winning director of CitizenFour comes a film about Chicago journalist Seymour Hersh and the need to hold those in power to account.

This inspirational story of reclamation follows a 90-year-old film pioneer on a mission to restore his images of Ghana’s journey to independence.

Starring Henry Kissinger and Leonid Brezhnev (among others), this witty film about a 1973 global security conference asks what diplomacy is good for.

A poignant chronicle of a family caught in a complex web of conflicting politics and emotions in their effort to rescue loved ones kidnapped on October 7.

When Vahid thinks he recognizes his former torturer, he sets out to prove the man’s identity even as he’s plagued by doubt in this gripping revenge thriller.

Plagued with guilt over her role in the suicide of a recently evicted man, court bailiff Orsolya wanders the city of Cluj in search of absolution.

An Italian president nearing the end of his term ponders his final acts in this thoughtful and elegant meditation on forgiveness and grace.

In this captivating political mystery and personal journey, a filmmaker sets out to find the truth behind her father’s disappearance more than three decades ago.

Nigeria 1993. A father takes his sons on a whirlwind day trip to Lagos as the chaos of a changing world threatens to envelop them.

Acclaimed auteur Lucrecia Martel poetically chronicles the trial of three men who killed the leader of an Indigenous community in Northern Argentina.

This powerful and suspenseful epic charts a group of characters caught up in the tumultuous historic moment when Palestinians united against Britain’s colonial rule.

Unlucky nine-year-old Lamia is forced to get creative when she’s tasked with baking a cake in celebration of Saddam Hussein’s birthday.

Through a series of intimate video calls, an Iranian filmmaker grows closer to a young Palestinian photographer as the conditions in Gaza crumble around her.

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo (Wagner Moura), a university researcher, is on the lam from the country’s military dictatorship in this timely, entertaining political thriller.

This lyrical portrait of legacy Black farmers in the American South celebrates their tenacity and resolve, presenting a timeless vision of a waning way of life.

These films showcase the richness of the documentary form. Through observation, testimony, and poetic reimagining, six different complex corners of the world come into view.

From the Oscar-nominated director of Honeyland comes a heartwarming story of family, storks, and sustainability in North Macedonia.

Focusing on the 1969 student protests at Montreal’s Concordia University, this powerful film confronts the buried legacy of racism in Canada.

1937. Investigating a case of wrongful imprisonment, a prosecutor embarks on a paranoia-infused journey to Moscow during Stalin’s Great Terror.

Vengeful ghosts, possessed vacuum cleaners, and a supernatural sense of justice converge in this charmingly absurd fable of memory, loss, and grief.