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Premieres Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Hunting whales is a matter of survival for Alaska Native residents of St. Lawrence. A family is blindsided when animal activists target their son, the youngest ever to harpoon a whale for his village - a hunt that feeds the community through winter. Also included is the short film "Everything Wrong and Nowhere to Go." Exploring the field of "climate psychology," this is a candid and comedic self-portrait in wh...

DOC NYC returns November 8–16 in theaters and online, with extended online screenings available across the U.S.

The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas announced the lineup for its 32nd edition, the oldest all-doc festival in North America.

CAMDEN — The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced the slate of feature and short films for its 19th edition, which will take place in person from September 14-17 at venues in Camden and Rockland, and online from September 18-25...

Documentaries from Alex Gibney and Errol Morris are on the lineup for this year's Camden fest, a key stop on the awards circuit for nonfiction films

A growing movement analogising the 45th president with the martyred son of God taps into Christian fundamentalist convictions about a divine US dispensation

Syrian artists Aziz Asmar and Anis Hamdoun finish a mural depicting George Floyd in the town of Binnish in Syrias northwestern Idlib province on June 1, 2020 [Omar Haj Kadour/ AFP] Earlier this month, BBC Culture published an excellent article by Arwa Haidar exploring the global reach and universal language of the art of protest through the murals painted across the world to honour George Floyd – the Black American man whose killing at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer in May triggere...