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Death is an inevitability, Alexis Franco affirms in his documentary Donde Los Árboles Dan Carne (Where the Trees Bear Meat). Shown during Austin Film Society’s annual Doc Days, Franco’s film is an intimately quiet portrait of the modern Argentine gaucho shaped by the slow destruction of climate change.
Read MoreRegardless of your relationship with the 90s, you will feel nostalgic for your own youth while watching Middletown, the third directorial collaboration between spouses Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, following the lauded Boys State (2020) and Girls State (2024).
Read MoreIn Mistress Dispeller, Elizabeth Lo’s (罗宝) second documentary feature, the camera feels almost absent, disappeared in the way of a narrative film. It’s a documentary shot like a romantic drama, specifically evoking the dreamy, languid camera most associated with slow cinema.
Read MoreEach year, Austin Film Society brings the best of nonfiction cinema from across the world to our city for the annual Doc Days film festival.
Read MoreLana Wilson’s new documentary, Look Into My Eyes, presents through juxtaposition of hurt and healing the film’s ethos: human is to be messy.
Read MoreTime Passages is a deftly woven scrapbook and an act of mourning.
Read MoreEmily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat’s Sugarcane, which had its Texas premiere at the Austin Film Society’s Doc Days festival, takes a deeply personal approach to what could be a sensationalistic true-crime story.
Read MoreSeeking Mavis Beacon is inventive and powerful, playful and thoughtful in turn.
Read MoreUnion, which had its Texas premiere at the Austin Film Society’s Doc Days festival on May Day, takes us back to one of the first beacons of hope in the current unionizing moment.
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