DOC NYC announced its influential short lists Wednesday, often a reliable gauge of which documentaries are connecting with ...

While they certainly don't get as much attention as feature films, short films can often be as good, if not sometimes better than many features. Telling a complete story in under 45 minutes (the ...

Two themes emerge among the five doc short finalists, as voters decide between hard-hitting issue docs and a pair of lighter portraits about the unifying power of music. The program then takes a ...

As someone who watches and studies the Academy Awards every year, I can tell you that the Best Documentary Short Subject nominees are frequently heavy, and often depressing. This milieu is often ...

Scandal, corruption, and high-stakes power struggles play out amid imposing high-rises and glassy boardrooms in these sleekly tailored tales of office intrigue and money-hungry machinations. In the ...

One of the most prestigious film festivals of its kind in the country is happening right now in Atlanta.

Little films are a very big deal at this year’s Academy Awards. Topics as heavy as PTSD, ethnic cleansing and the immigration system, and as light as music, kissing and children with a passion to ...

One of the most cinematic documentaries of the year comes in short form, with no dialogue. Alison McAlpine’s Oscar contender perfectly a strangeness, winner of more than a dozen awards at film ...

Martin Short is a comedian whose very prolific career now spans over fifty years and counting. He’s done Broadway, he’s a sketch-comedy veteran of “Second City Television” and “Saturday Night Live,” ...

As a new generation of movie-mad directors emerged in the 1980s, they drew direct inspiration from the films they grew up watching and obsessing over. The result was a striking run of idiosyncratic ...