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Cinemafile showcases the very best in independent, documentary and foreign films through our conversations with the more than 2,000 filmmakers who made them. Through Cinemafile we will do our best to bring the most interesting and accomplished filmmakers from around the world to your attention.
Episodes
CinemafileThe AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist - Co-directors: Charlie Tyrell (Daniel Roher) & Producer Ted
From the Academy Award-winning filmmakers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny; a father-to-be (Daniel Roher) tries to figure out what is…
CinemafileEsta Isla (This Island) - Co-directors Cristian Carretero & Lorraine Jones Molina
Winner of Best New Narrative Directors and Best Cinematography in a Narrative Film at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival, Esta Isla (This Island) follows Bebo, a…
CinemafileTOW - Director Stephanie Laing
TOW is based on the shockingly true underdog story of Amanda Ogle, a homeless woman who one day wakes up to find that the 1991 Toyota Camry she’d been sleeping…
CinemafileGhost Elephants - Subject Steve Boyes (Director Werner Herzog)
For over a decade, Dr. Steve Boyes, conservation biologist and National Geographic Explorer, has been in search of a mysterious, elusive herd of Ghost…
Cinemafile*Oscar Shortlisted - Late Shift - Director Petra Volpe
Director Petra Volpe’s LATE SHIFT had its World Premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2025. It went on to become Switzerland’s entry for the…
Cinemafile*Cinemafile favorite - White with Fear - Director Andrew Goldberg
Emmy Award-winning director Andrew Goldberg's latest documentary WHITE WITH FEAR sheds light on the decades-long strategy of politicians and media outlets to…
Cinemafile*Cinemafile favorite - Tatami - Co-directors Guy Nattiv & Zar Amir
Anchored by two trenchant performances, this exquisitely well made film from co-directors Guy Nattiv & Zar Amir about the politics of modern day Iran, TATAMI…
CinemafileMatter of Time - Director Matt Finlin
Currently available on NETFLIX, MATTER OF TIME is a compelling documentary chronicling the fight to cure Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a rare and devastating…
Cinemafile*2026 Sundance Award Winner - Dead Lover - Director Grace Glowicki
Winner of the Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, DEAD LOVER is the story of a lonely Gravedigger who reeks so…
CinemafileImmutable - Co-directors Charlie Sadoff & Gabriel London & film subject Danielle Dupree
IMMUTABLE is a feature documentary that follows a group of students from the Washington Urban Debate League as they fight to find their voices in a world that…
Cinemafile*2026 SXSW Premiere - Beyond the Duplex Planet - Director Beth Harrington
In 1979, David Greenberger, a recent art school grad became activities director at a Boston nursing home. David began interviewing the residents, rejecting pat…
Cinemafile*Oscar winner - Best International Feature Sentimental Value - Editor Olivier Bugge Coutté
Joachim Trier’s Academy Award winning Best International Feature Sentimental Value, is a riveting drama that follows sisters Nora and Agnes as they reunite…
Cinemafile*Oscar Winner - Best Documentary - Mr. Nobody Against Putin - Co-directors David Borenstein & Pasha Talankin
Pasha Talankin is an unlikely hero—a beloved Russian primary school teacher, known as a mentor and prankster who offers students a safe haven in his office…
CinemafileBirita - Director Búi Dam
In this moving and deeply personal feature documentary, BIRITA, a family of theater-makers on the tiny archipelago of The Faroe Islands attempts to stage…
CinemafilePompei: Below the Clouds - Director Gianfranco Rosi
Between Mount Vesuvius and the Gulf of Naples, the ground shakes periodically and the fumaroles of the Phlegraean Fields taint the air. From the traces of…
CinemafileMermaid - Director Fia Perera
Ten-year-old Cassius Daniels (Cassie Devyn McDowell) knows exactly who she is—a mermaid princess. But trapped in a body her father refuses to understand…
Cinemafile*2026 Oscar nominated Feature Doc - The Perfect Neighbor - Director Geeta Gadbhir
In her latest documentary film, Emmy Award–winning director Geeta Gandbhir confronts viewers with the stark realities of “stand your ground” laws. Now…
CinemafileMoms Club - Co-directors Miranda Winters and Rocky Romano
When a group of suburban moms discovers their public schools are under attack by a powerful network of religious extremists, they form a secret resistance to…
CinemafileGroup: The Schopenhauer Effect - Director Alexis Lloyd
A real psychoanalyst and eight actors… GROUP: THE SCHOPENHAUER EFFECT drop us into the center of a weekly group run by Dr. Elliot Zeisel, a real New York…
CinemafileGunfighter Paradise - Director Jethro Waters
GUNFIGHTER PARADISE is a dark comedy centered around Christian Fundamentalism and the rising tide of Christo-Fascism in the United States. Set in the very…
CinemafileNatchez - Director Suzannah Herbert *Winner Best Documentary 2025 Tribeca Film Festival*
WINNER of Best Documentary, 2025 Tribeca Festival, Suzannah Herbert's jaw-dropping NATCHEZ captures an unsettling clash between history and memory in a small…
CinemafilePhenomena - Director Josef Gatti
A psychedelic odyssey into the fabric of the universe, guided by a filmmaker and his immersive practical experiments that blur the lines between art and…
CinemafileMistake - Director Honey Lauren
MISTAKE is a nuanced, historical drama about an intersex child born in 1941 who is forced to grow up as a man named Larry in the deep South of the 1970’s. As…
Cinemafile2026 Sundance - Who Killed Alex Odeh - Co-directors Jason Osder & William Lafi Youmans
In October 1985, Santa Ana, California was shaken by a brazen act of political violence when Palestinian American Alex Odeh, a beloved teacher and community…
CinemafileRemoval of the Eye - Co-directors Artemis Shaw & Prashanth Kamalakanthan
Kallia and Ram are at their wits' end with their sleepless baby when they realize Kallia’s Greek mother is on a secret mission to exorcise the family from the…
CinemafileCrime & Parody - Director Will Thwaites
Nearly a decade before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert came under attack for their political humor, an unknown comedian from Ohio finds himself in even more…
CinemafileThe Other Roe - Director Wendy Eley Jackson & Executive Producer Donia Hames Robinson
The Other Roe uncovers the powerful, long-overlooked story behind Doe v. Bolton, the historic Supreme Court case that was decided on the same day as Roe v…
CinemafileSmile… The Worst is Yet to Come - Director Chloe Lenihan & Writer / Lead actor Joseph Mancuso
SMILE…the Worst is Yet to Come tells the story of Elder Millenial’s, BEN and BIRDIE, who are feeling the pressure of time. After closing his bar and suffering…
Cinemafile33 PHOTOS FROM THE GHETTO - Director Jan Czarlewski
Currently available on HBO, director Jan Czarlewski’s riveting documentary film 33 PHOTOS FROM THE GHETTO tells the story of the only known photographs from…
CinemafileThe Librarians - Director Kim A. Snyder
Award-winning director Kim A. Snyder’s THE LIBRARIANS is four-alarm siren alerting us to nationwide campaign, funded by shadowy network of special interests to…
CinemafilePaying For It - Director Sook-Yin Lee
PAYING FOR IT is a live-action adaptation of acclaimed alternative-cartoonist Chester Brown’s best-selling graphic novel. In the late 90s, Chester and Sonny…
CinemafileJOYBUBBLES - Director Rachael Morrison *2026 Sundance World Premiere
Getting its World Premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, JOYBUBBLES begins in the 1950s, recounting the unbelievable story of Joybubbles, (the legal name…
CinemafileA Poet - Director Simón Mesa Soto
Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer who has given up on life. Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of Medellín in a drunken…
CinemafileBirdie - Director Praise Odigie Paige *2026 Sundance World Premiere*
Director Praise Odigie Paige's beautiful narrative short Birdie's will have its World Premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, BIRDIE is a narrative short…
Cinemafile*Oscar Shortlisted Doc - Seeds - Director Brittany Shyne
Director Brittany Shyne’s Oscar Shortlisted Feature Documentary seamlessly weaves together the stories of three Black generational farmers to create a…
CinemafileThe Long Way Home - Director Michael Apted (1989) and Producer Steven Lawrence (2026)
Michael Apted’s The Long Way Home, a revealing, rollicking portrait of the Soviet underground rock legend Boris Grebenshchikov, who became the first to record…
CinemafileMother of Flies Co-directors: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser
Mickey (Zelda Adams) faces a deadly diagnosis, but she isn’t ready to die yet. Heading into the woods with her father (John Adams), she seeks dark magic at the…
CinemafileDeepfaking Sam Altman - Director Adam Bhala Lough
Follow director Adam Bhala Lough as he sets out to better understand the technology and people at the center of the AI boom. His quest sends him on a path…
CinemafileShuffle - Director Benjamin Flaherty *Best Feature Documentary 2025 SXSW*
In the wake of the opioid epidemic, insurance companies were now required to cover addiction and mental health treatment at the same reimbursement rate as…
Cinemafile*Oscar Shortlisted - Holding Liat - Director Brandon Kramer
Shortlisted for this year’s Best Feature Documentary Oscar, Director Brandon Kramer’s deeply empathetic story begins with the despicable attack that took place…
CinemafileGLENDORA - Director Isabelle Armand
In the heart of the Mississippi Delta, the village of Glendora may seem quiet and remote. But beneath its stillness lies a vibrant, tightly knit…
CinemafileAny Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story Co-directors Michael Mabbott & Lucah Rosenberg-Lee
In co-directors Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee's Peabody Award winning documentary portrait, ANY OTHER WAY: THE JACKIE SHANE STORY a star is reborn…
CinemafileOBEX - Director Albert Birney
In pre-internet 1987, Conor and his dog Sandy live a life of seclusion, lost in the slow-rendering graphics of early Macs and televisions aglow with late night…
Cinemafile** Mindblowing Venezuelan Doc** Men of War - Co-directors Jen Gatien & Billy Corben
Ripped from today's headlines, MEN OF WAR is an insider account of the failed 2020 coup in Venezuela as told by former US Army Green Beret Jordan Goudreau, a…
Cinemafile*Oscar Shortlisted- All That’s Left of You - Director Cherien Dabis
A deeply moving, multigenerational drama, ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU follows a Palestinian teenager who gets swept into a protest in the Occupied West Bank and…
CinemafileHomegrown - Director Michael Premo
HOMEGROWN follows three conservative activists—a newly politicized father-to-be in New Jersey, an Air Force veteran organizing conservatives in New York City…
CinemafileAmerican Genre Film Archive (AGFA) Theatrical Sales Director Bret Berg
American Genre Film Archive, a non-profit organization devoted to the collection, preservation, and distribution of genre movies — most of them works made on…
CinemafileThe Forge - CEO & President Mark Sayre
Established by independent film veteran Mark Mathias Sayre, THE FORGE is a distributor and international sales agency of compelling independent films and…
Cinemafile*Oscar Winner - FLOW - Director & Co-writer Gints Zilbalodis
A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a…
Cinemafile*Best of 2025 - Sky Peals - Director / Writer Moin Hussain
This haunting and beautifully calibrated first feature, Sky Peals, from director / writer Moin Hussain is set in an eerie petrol station. It follows Adam, a…
CinemafileThe Hemingway - Co-directors Patrick Sean O’Brien & Evan Mathis
Patrick lives with ALS, and faces extraordinary challenges with simple, everyday tasks. But inside his head, a running internal monologue offers wry…
CinemafileArmand - Director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel & Lead Actor Renate Reinsve
When defamed actress Elisabeth (Renate Reinsve) is abruptly called into a parent-teacher meeting after hours, she is presented with scathing allegations that…
CinemafileTimestamp - Director Kateryna Gornostai
Keeping schools open in Ukraine is an attempt to recreate at least some of the normal life they had before the war - until February 24, 2022 (and in some…
CinemafileBullets And Blueberries - Director Erik Nelson
Award winning documentary filmmaker Erik Nelson’s Bullets And Blueberries explores the evolution of the Holocaust beginning with the mass shootings by the…
Cinemafile*Oscar Shortlist - The Alabama Solution - Co-directors Andrew Jarecki & Charlotte Kaufman
In 2019, filmmakers visit an Alabama prison to film a revival meeting. Off camera, incarcerated men whisper a message: terrible things are going on here that…
CinemafileDrowned Land - Director Colleen Thursto
In director Colleen Thurston’s exceptional feature documentary, DROWNED LAND, history, water rights and family collide into a scathing expose on public /…
CinemafilePlymptoons - Animator / Director Bill Plympton
Our interview was recorded for a tribute show at NYC's Metrograph Theatre in June of 2025... Awarded by the Academy and the Festival de Cannes, a staple of…
Cinemafile*Best of 2025 - Who by Fire - Director Philippe Lesage
A getaway at a secluded log cabin in the forest becomes the site of escalating, multi-generational tensions and anxieties in this disquieting, impeccably…
CinemafileWe Are Guardians - Co-directors Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Green & Rob Grobman
In this powerful, intimate and illuminating documentary film from co-directors Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Green and Rob Grobman, a epic battle is taking place…
Cinemafile*Oscar nominated (2024) - Union - Co-director Brett Story & Stephen Maing
UNION follows the efforts of Chris Smalls (founding President of the Amazon Labor Union or ALU), Connor Spence (current President of the ALU) and a dedicated…