Cinemafile
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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.
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- MICKEY - Director Dano Garcia · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 307Director Dano Garcia's latest film, MICKEY, centers on Mickey Cundapí (she/her), known artistically as Mis$ Mickey, a trans multidisciplinary artist who, alongside García, uses…
- Once Upon a Time in Harlem - Director William & Producer Liani Greaves · 21 min · Season 1 Episode 306A 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…
- Nuisance Bear - Co-directors Gabriela Osio Vanden & Jack Weisman · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 305Winner of the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and hailed by Werner Herzog as “truly groundbreaking”, Nuisance Bear places viewers inside the world…
- Littermates - Co-directors Scott Tinkham and Michael Woloson · 11 min · Season 1 Episode 304Set against the backdrop of a mysterious war, LITTERMATES follows two disoriented survivors who take refuge at an isolated cottage in the English countryside. After Liam and Mel…
- One in a Million - Co-directors Itab Azzam & Jack MacInnes · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 305Filmed over ten years, ONE IN A MILLION follows Israa from childhood to adulthood on an extraordinary journey from Syria to Germany — and back again. We first meet her at age 11…
- MOUSE - Director Kenny Riches · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 303Between stealing bicycles and breaking into cars, Denny’s only social outlet is spending time with his mother who loves reading correspondence from their Japanese family…
- Big Girls Don’t Cry - Director Paloma Schneideman · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 302Summer 2006, rural New Zealand. 14-year-old Sid Bookman is caught between childhood and adolescence, navigating a burgeoning sexual curiosity and a desperate desire for…
- Everest: The Other Side - Co-directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (Jimmy Chin) · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 301Everest: The Other Side chronicles an epic story of two elite ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson who fell deeply in love while reaching the pinnacle of their sport…
- Who Killed Alex Odeh? - Co-directors Jason Osder & William Lafi Youmans · 14 min · Season 1 Episode 300In October 1985, Santa Ana, California was shaken by a brazen act of political violence when Palestinian American Alex Odeh, a beloved teacher and community leader, was killed by…
- LADY - Director Samuel Abrahams · 12 min · Season 1 Episode 299Director Samuel Abrahams' high concept film, LADY, zeroes in on a seemingly deluded aristocrat Lady Isabella (Sian Clifford) who has hired a struggling director Sam (Laurie…
- Tenzing - Director Jennifer Peedom · 13 min · Season 1 Episode 298Based on true events, "Tenzing” chronicles the little-known story of Tenzing Norgay (Genden Phuntsok), a gifted Himalayan climber who, alongside New Zealand mountaineer Edmund…
- PULP: What Do You Do For An Encore? - Director Garth Jennings · 8 min · Season 1 Episode 297PULP: What Do You Do For An Encore? is a celebration of one of Britain's most unusual bands, captured during their triumphant 2025 tour. Directed by longtime collaborator Garth…
- The Last Place on Earth - Director David Gardner & Producer Shayne McGrath · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 296THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH is a thrilling, nine-year journey into the heart of Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem—a 2.6-million-hectare rainforest where tigers, elephants, rhinos, and…
- The Cycle of Love - Director Orlando von Einsiedel · 12 min · Season 1 Episode 295In 1977, PK, a 23-year-old street artist from a marginalized “untouchable” family in Delhi, set out on an extraordinary 6,000-mile journey across continents with little more than…
- The Art of Adventure - Director Alison Reid · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 283From Alison Reid, the director of the critically acclaimed documentary about the late and beloved zoologist Anne Innis Dagg, The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, comes her latest…
- Miss Representation: Rise Up - Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 294Over a decade after Miss Representation exposed the media's contribution to the under- representation of women in leadership, Miss Representation: Rise Up dives deep into the…
- Case 137 - Director Dominik Moll · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 293Following the Yellow Vest protests of Paris in 2018, internal affairs officer Stéphanie Bertrand must investigate the conduct of her fellow police officers during the…
- Following Harry - Director Susanne Rostock · 14 min · Season 1 Episode 292Directed by Susanne Rostock (Sing Your Song), FOLLOWING HARRY joins legendary artist and civil rights leader Harry Belafonte as he embarks on a deeply personal and reflective…
- Bird in Hand - Director Melody C. Roscher · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 291Inspired by Roscher’s own biracial experience, BIRD IN HAND follows the newly engaged Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright) as she returns to her rural hometown to plan the wedding with…
- The Last Message - Subject Kelsie Kimberlin (Co-directors Andrii Voloshyn & Oleksii Mykhailovych Liebiediev) · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 290In The Last Message, Kelsie Kimberlin travels to Ukraine to uncover why her 21-year-old cousin Andrii Rachok was killed by Russian forces during their full-scale invasion…
- Stalin Boys - Co-directors Bianca Giaever and Ora DeKornfeld · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 289STALIN BOYS follows four Mexican American middle school boys in a tiny Texas border town who have developed an unusual obsession with Joseph Stalin. When their teacher tells them…
- Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency - Co-directors Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 288When lightning ignites a firestorm in their redwood forest sanctuary in Northern California, longtime lovers and artists Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle are forced to evacuate…
- Antoinetta Stallings - Maxscene Division at Tyler Perry Studios · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 287Joining us on this edition of Cinemafile is Antoinetta Stallings, the Head of the MAXSCENE Division at Tyler Perry Studios, a new specialty division dedicated to expanding…
- Ithaqua - Director Casey Walker · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 286As a brutal winter grips the Canadian wilderness and the fur trade begins its collapse, the isolated inhabitants of a remote trading outpost enlist Cole Franklin, an American…
- Songs of Slow Burning Earth - Director Olha Zhurba & Producer Darya Bassel · 21 min · Season 1 Episode 285SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH was filmed during the first two years of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, documenting the lives of civilians, children and aid workers as war…
- This is Buzz - Director Mark Pellington · 22 min · Season 1 Episode 284This Is Buzz is experimental and music-driven documentary, illustrating the tale of the seismically influential, yet somehow forgotten, MTV slice of life docuseries BUZZ, which…
- The Scout - Paula González-Nasser · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 282Sofia works as a location scout for a TV pilot filming in New York City. It’s her job to find the homes, businesses, and exteriors where the show will be filmed. Driving around…
- Everybody to Kenmure Street - Director Felipe Bustos Sierra · 21 min · Season 1 Episode 281Director Felipe Bustos Sierra's award winning documentary, Everybody to Kenmure Street, is set in motion by a remarkable series of events on a May 2021 morning in Glasgow…
- POWWOW PEOPLE - Director Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga) · 13 min · Season 1 Episode 280POWWOW PEOPLE is a vérité-style documentary grounded in the rhythms, relationships, and lived experience of contemporary Native powwow culture. Told through the lens of artist…
- My Omaha - Director and Subject Nick Beaulieu · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 279As Omaha is shaken by protests and a death that becomes a movement flashpoint, filmmaker Nick Beaulieu navigates family conflict, personal reckoning, and the lived realities of…
- Infirmary - Director Nicholas Pineda · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 278A guard vanished on his first night at an old psych hospital in 2023. His bodycam footage shows unexplainable incidents that continue to baffle investigators. We're joined by the…
- Beware Boiuna - Director Mike P. Nelson · 11 min · Season 1 Episode 277A team of young doctors embarks on a humanitarian mission to the Amazon rainforest, full of enthusiasm to help those in need, but each of them with their own agenda. However, not…
- Traces of Home – Director Colette Ghunim · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 276TRACES OF HOME follows filmmaker Colette Ghunim on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery as she sets out to reunite her parents with the ancestral homes they were forced to…
- Sunny Dancer – Director George Jaques · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 275IVY, 17, is a cancer survivor, in remission. Once one of the popular girls at school, she’s now angry and withdrawn, riddled with survivor’s guilt. She hates pity and she…
- The Condor Daughter - Director Alvaro Olmos Torrico · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 274Bolivia’s entry for the 2027 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, THE CONDOR DAUGHTER, tells the story of Clara, a teenager growing up in a small indigenous…
- Give It a Shot - Director Vaishali Sinha · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 273A global race to develop a new male contraceptive that could revolutionize family planning and improve women’s lives globally. Give It A Shot follows the indomitable 83-year-old…
- Brailled It - Co-directors David Grabias & Brendon Schulze & Salome & Isaiah & Chris · 12 min · Season 1 Episode 272Every year, the top under-18 braille readers and writers from across the English-speaking world gather in Los Angeles to compete in the Braille Challenge. For one weekend, blind…
- You Had to Be There - Director Nick Davis · 22 min · Season 1 Episode 271YOU HAD TO BE THERE is a hilarious, emotional, and revelatory documentary about the legendary 1972 Canadian production of Godspell that changed entertainment forever. The Toronto…
- You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train - Co-directors Deb Ellis & Denis Mueller · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 270You Con’t be Neutral on a Moving Train looks at the amazing life of the renowned historian, activist and author, Howard Zinn. Following his early days as a shipyard labor…
- *From the Archive* Wisdom of Happiness - Co-directors Barbara Miller · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 94Co-directors Barbara Miller and Philip Delaquis WISDOM OF HAPPINESS shows us a timeless truth: happiness is still possible, even in the midst of chaos and uncertainty. This…
- *Best of 2026* - Ghost in the Machine - Director Valerie Veatch · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 194Director Valerie Veatch navigates the torrential rapids of artificial intelligence with this mind-expanding investigative essay documentary that excavates the philosophical…
- The Natural State Director Matthew Dougherty · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 269In 1989, Julie Thayer, a wealthy mother from New York City, went to the Swiss Alps to have her ego destroyed. The man she chose for the job was U.G. Krishnamurti, a radical…
- The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs - Co-directors Matteo Norzi & Èlia Gasull Balada · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 268Sara Flores, a visionary practitioner of kené—the design system of the Shipibo People—spent a lifetime with little recognition before finding herself, in her seventies, suddenly…
- The Oldest Person in the World - Director Sam Green · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 266THE OLDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD is a decade-long odyssey chronicling the ever-changing record holders of the title of oldest person alive. As the title inevitably passes from one…
- Black Zombie - Director Maya Annik Bedward · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 265BLACK ZOMBIE digs beneath the blood-soaked spectacle of modern horror to uncover the zombie’s buried and unsettling origins. Long before it became associated with flesh-eating…
- *Why Labor Day Matters* - Who Moves America - Director Yael Bridge · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 190UPS is the world’s largest package delivery company, moving millions of packages across 200 countries and territories every day. With their 2023 contract set to expire, the…
- *Cinemafile Archive* - The Teacher - Director Farah Nabulsi · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 264A gripping and emotional drama filmed and set in the West Bank of Palestine, THE TEACHER, the debut feature from Oscar-nominated director Farah Nabulsi. The film stars renowned…
- The Incomer - Director Louis Paxton · 14 min · Season 1 Episode 263Sundance Award winning comedy, The Incomer is a modern folk fairy tale set on a remote Scottish island, where two siblings survive by hunting seabirds, retelling the stories of…
- Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers - Director John H. Cunningham · 14 min · Season 1 Episode 262OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD: THE FIRST CORAL REEFERS is a feature documentary that journeys back to the 1970s and early 1980s to tell the origin story of Jimmy Buffett’s original Coral…
- Teenage Wasteland - Co-directors Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss · 23 min · Season 1 Episode 261Set in 1991 in upstate New York, Teenage Wasteland follows a group of teenage misfits, inspired by a renegade English teacher, who embark on a student film project and uncover a…
