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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
Cinemafile*Oscar Shortlist Doc - Folktales with Co-directors Rachel Grady & Heidi Ewing
In Oscar®-nominated filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s life-affirming documentary, teenagers converge at a traditional folk high school in Arctic Norway…
CinemafileThe Window on Death Row - Director Linda Freund & Executive Producer Mike Farrell
The Window on Death Row tells the story of Joaquín José Martínez, a Spanish citizen, who at the age of 24 was convicted of a double murder in the state of…
CinemafileRosemead - Director Eric Lin
ROSEMEAD centers on an ailing woman who uncovers a terrifying secret: her teenage son is consumed by violent impulses. As her health rapidly declines, she’s…
CinemafileThe Mother and The Bear - Director Johnny Ma
After 26-year-old Sumi suffers an accident on the streets of wintry Winnipeg, her overbearing mother Sara (Kim Ho-jung) flies in from Seoul to be by her now…
Cinemafile*Best of 2025 - Suburban Fury - Director Robinson Devor
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival SUBURBAN FURY revisits the 1975 assassination attempt on US President Gerald…
Cinemafile*Oscar Shortlist - Children No More: “Were and Are Gone” - Director Hilla Medalia
CHILDREN NO MORE: “WERE AND ARE GONE”is an observational documentary short about a vigil that began in March 2025, when a handful of women stood silently in a…
CinemafileThe Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo - Director Diego Cespedes
Set in a remote Chilean mining town in 1982, Diego Céspedes’ dazzling debut feature follows young Lidia, who grows up within a vibrant queer household led by…
Cinemafile*Best of 2025 - Santosh - Director Sandhya Suri
Ripped from her life of domesticity, Santosh (Shahana Goswami), a young widow now desperate to support herself, accepts an opportunity to inherit her husband’s…
Cinemafile*Best of 2025 - Electra - Director Hala Matar
In the timeless allure of Rome, journalist Dylan (Daryl Wein) and his companion, photographer Lucy (Abigail Cowen), find themselves weaving through the…
CinemafileThe Tale of Silyan - Director Tamara Kotevska & Producer Jean Dakar
Winner of the Cinema and Arts Award at the 82nd Venice Film Festival, and just Shortlisted for this year’s Best Documentary Feature Oscar, THE TALE OF SILYAN…
CinemafileLittle Trouble Girls - Director Urška Djukić
Slovenia's entry this year's Oscar for Best International Feature Film, begins with her mother’s urging an introverted 16-year-old Lucija as she joins her…
Cinemafile*Best of 2025 - WTO/99 - Director Ian Bell
Director Ian Bell joins us to recount the consequential history that took place from November 30th to December 3rd 1999, when tens of thousands of people…
CinemafileCome Closer - Director Tom Nesher
Screenwriter and director Tom Nesher joins us to talk about her poignant drama and the story of a young woman's life that is shattered when her beloved younger…
CinemafileTrifole - Director Gabriela Fabbro
Trifole, Igor, an aging truffle hunter, faces failing health and disappearing woodlands while struggling to keep pace with the modern truffle trade. Into his…
Cinemafile*DOCNYC - Carol & Joy - Director Nathan Silver
From director Nathan Silver, "CAROL & JOY was born from a convergence of mothers. In my previous documentary, CUTTING MY MOTHER, I followed my own mom Cindy’s…
CinemafileNuns vs The Vatican - Director Lorena Luciana and Producer Filippo Piscopo
NUNS VS. THE VATICAN is a groundbreaking investigative documentary that exposes a historic showdown inside the Catholic Church. NUNS VS. THE VATICAN follows…
CinemafileSongs From The Hole - Director Contessa Gayles
At 15, he took a life. Three days later, his brother’s life was taken. A moving chronicle of forgiveness, family, and the transformative power of art, SONGS…
CinemafileZodiac Killer Project - Director Charlie Shackleton
Filmmaker Charlie Shackleton was hot on the trail of the next great American true crime documentary—a riveting account of a highway patrolman's quixotic effort…
Cinemafile*Oscar Shortlist - Cutting Through Rocks - Co-directors Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni
Winner of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Award winner (World Cinema Documentary) Co-directors Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni's Cutting Through…
Cinemafile*Human Rights - A Place of Absence - Director Marialuisa Ernst
Decades after the disappearance of her uncle during Argentina’s Dirty War, a filmmaker joins the Caravan of Mothers, a group of Central American women who…
Cinemafile*DOCNYC 2025 - Flophouse America - Director Monica Strømdahl
Currently screening at 2025 DOCNYC, FLOPHOUSE AMERICA places us in the middle of the ongoing housing crisis in the U.S.,where many people are forced to live in…
Cinemafile* Best of 2025 Drop Dead City - Co-directors Peter Yost & Michael Rohatyn
Co-directors Peter Yost & Michael Rohatyn’s DROP DEAD CITY is the first-ever feature documentary devoted to the NYC Fiscal Crisis of 1975, an extraordinary…
CinemafileCaterpillar - Director Liza Mandelup
Endlessly struggling to feel seen, David becomes infatuated with a mysterious company’s promise to transform people’s lives by permanently changing the color…
CinemafileThe White House Effect - Co-directors Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos & Jon Shenk
THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT is through the lens of entirely archival footage, and we're given an infuriating fly-on-the-wall perspective of the pivotal years…
CinemafilePlan C for Civilization - Director Ben Kalina
PLAN C for CIVILIZATION tackles one of the most controversial approaches to mitigating and possibly reversing the dire impacts of climate change. As emissions…
CinemafilePhotographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story - Director Jennifer Takaki
Corky Lee was born in 1947 in New York to Chinese immigrants who owned a laundry in Queens. He majored in history at Queens College and became a community…
CinemafileLOVE+WAR - Co-directors Chai Vasarhelyi (Jimmy Chin) & Lynsey Addario
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lynsey Addario has risked her life to capture the stark realities of war — from the Middle East and Afghanistan to Ukraine…
CinemafileRebuilding - Director Max Walker-Silverman
A gently humanist story of the American West from Max Walker-Silverman (A Love Song), Rebuilding follows Dusty (Josh O’Connor), a reserved, divorced father…
CinemafileIn Waves and War - Co-directors Bonni Cohen and John Shenk
Co-directors Bonni Cohen and John Shenk's latest documentary IN WAVES AND WAR follows highly decorated Navy SEAL Marcus Capone, who returns from Afghanistan…
CinemafileSuspicious Minds - Creator / Director Sean King O’Grady
Creator / Director Sean King O’Grady’s SUSPICIOUS MINDS is a docuseries that investigates the disturbing rise of artificial intelligence as a trigger for…
CinemafileKissinger - Director Barak Goodman
Director Barak Goodman’s KISSINGER, is a new two-part, three-hour biography, offers an incisive portrait of Henry Kissinger, the enigmatic powerbroker who…
CinemafileIn Our Blood - Director Pedro Kos
Nothing is as it seems when filmmaker Emily Wyland (Brittany O’Grady) teams up with cinematographer Danny (E. J. Bonilla) to shoot an intimate documentary…
CinemafileI Was Born This Way - Co-directors Daniel Junge and Sam Pollard and Co-producer Wellington Love
Surviving racism, homophobia and childhood trauma, Carl Bean found his voice through song – first as a gospel singer in Harlem’s Christian Tabernacle Choir and…
CinemafileRoads of Fire - Director Nathaniel Lezra
With unprecedented access to the global migration crisis, ROADS OF FIRE weaves together three powerful, deeply personal narratives: a human smuggler guiding…
CinemafileKöln 75 - Director Ido Fluk
Keith Jarrett’s legendary performance in January 1975 nearly didn’t happen. Based on a true story, Köln 75 follows how the concert was conceived and…
Cinemafile*Best of 2025* River of Grass - Director Sasha Wortzel
RIVER OF GRASS is a present-day reimagining of Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s groundbreaking book, “The Everglades: River of Grass,” (1947), which transformed the…
CinemafileThe Man Who Saves the World? - Director Gabe Polsky
Resurrection, ancient prophecies, and globe-spanning adventures—this is the outrageous true story of Patrick McCollum, an eccentric spiritual leader who’s been…
CinemafileNORITA- Producer Sarah Schoellkopf
Before being the feminist powerhouse that she’s known to be today, Nora “Norita” Cortiñas was a traditional housewife. She was catapulted into her country’s…
CinemafileAmong Neighbors - Director Yoav Potash
Combining magical realism and evocative hand-drawn animation with revelatory interviews and verité footage, "Among Neighbors" examines the story of a small…
CinemafileISRAEL-PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989 - Director Göran Hugo Olsson
ISRAEL-PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989 by archival film maestro Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975) is assembled from a vast stockpile of…
Cinemafile*Best of 2025* Obsessed with Light - Co-directors Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum
Obsessed with Light is a meditation on light and the enduring obsession to create. The film pulls back the curtain on Loïe Fuller, a wildly original performer…
Cinemafile* Best of 2025* Reinas (Queens) - Director Klaudia Reynicke
Director Klaudia Reynicke subtly weaves a tale of shifts and sacrifices that shows, whatever the familial configuration, strength and loss are necessary parts…
CinemafileThere Was, There Was Not - Director Emily Mkrtichian
THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT follows four women living in the Republic of Artsakh, an unrecognized country reckoning with the aftermath of one war while on the…
CinemafileMr. K - Director Tallulah H. Schwab
Traveling magician Mr. K (Crispin Glover) is down on his luck. Business is slow, and the few gigs he’s picked up along the road have left him adrift. After…
CinemafileThe Queen of My Dreams - Director Fawzia Mirza
Director / writer Fawzia Mirza's THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS' is a vibrant, heartfelt dramedy about a queer Muslim grad student, Azra, who returns to Pakistan after…
CinemafileInfinite Summer - Director Miguel Llansó
Director Miguel Llansó’s INFINITE SUMMER finds Mia and her friends, Grete and Sarah, on a summer break. They all end up trying a meditation app that delivers a…
CinemafileChaperone - Director Zoë Eisenberg
Director Zoë Eisenberg, debut feature film, CHAPERONE focuses on a 29-year-old Misha Miyamoto who lives alone in the house her grandmother left her, has held…
Cinemafile*Best of 2025 One to One: John & Yoko - Co-director Sam Rice-Edwards (Kevin Macdonald)
An expansive and revelatory inside look at the 18 months John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent living in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, Oscar®-winning…
Cinemafile*Best of 2025 - Secret Mall Apartment - Director Jeremy Workman
In 2003, eight young Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment in a hidden space inside the Providence Place Mall and lived in it for four years, filming…
Cinemafile*The Best of 2025 - That They May Face the Rising Sun - Director Pat Collins
Director and writer Pat Collins’ latest feature film, THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN, is set in the late 1970s in rural Ireland, just before the…
CinemafileAre We Good? - Director Steven Feinartz
Are We Good? follows the life of comic and podcast pioneer Marc Maron. Loss and growth take center stage as he struggles to evolve in the wake of deep tragedy…
CinemafileThe Devil is Busy - Co-directors Christalyn Hampton and Geeta Gandbhir
THE DEVIL IS BUSY takes viewers on a daylong journey with Tracii, the determined head of security at a women’s healthcare clinic in Atlanta, Georgia as she…
CinemafileIn Whose Name - Director Nicolas Ballesteros & Editor Justin Staple
Then eighteen-year-old Nicolas (Nico) Ballesteros is thrust into the eye of the storm that is Ye, a man building empires in music, fashion, and faith. Coming…
CinemafileThird Act - Director Tad (Tadashi) Nakamura
THIRD ACT is an insightful and heartfelt film that showcases a personal story about the director’s relationship with his legendary filmmaker father, Robert…
CinemafileOmara: Cuba’s Legendary Diva - Director Hugo Perez
If you’ve listened to the Buena Vista Social Club, then you’ve heard the unforgettable voice of Omara Portuondo. At 90, Cuba's legendary diva has been a…
CinemafileHard Hat Riot - Director Marc Levin & Author David Paul Kuhn
Hard Hat Riot revisits the explosive 1970 clash between anti-war student protestors and construction workers in New York City. It was a cultural event that…
CinemafileCracking the Code: Phil Sharp & The Biotech Revolution - Director Bill Haney
Director Bill Haney outstanding documentary, Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp & The Bio-tech Revolution, narrated by Oscar nominated actor Mark Ruffalo, is an…
CinemafilePredators - Director David Osit
Director David Osit's PREDATORS is a chilling, edge of your seat thriller that delves into the murk of human nature to observe hunter, predator, subject and…
CinemafileAll God’s Children - Directed by Ondi Timoner
Award-winning filmmaker Ondi Timoner latest film, ALL GOD”S CHILDREN, explores the intersection of race, religion and family and explores whether the truism…
CinemafileThe Baltimorons - Lead Actor / Producer Michael Strassner
On Christmas Eve, Cliff, a newly sober improv comedian, cracks a tooth and lands in the emergency care of Didi, an older no-nonsense dentist. What begins as a…