Category Archives: Film

The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:

>August 1
Streaming: Disney+/Hulu

TIME AND WATER
Sundance 2026

Director:
Sara Dosa

About:
Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time, and water.

>August 7
In Theatres

COOKIE QUEENS
Sundance 2026

Director:
Alysa Nahmias

About:
It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which childhood and ambition collide.

>August 14
In Theatres

AMERICAN DOCTOR
Sundance 2026

Director:
Poh Si Teng

About:
When three American doctors — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.

>August 24
On TV: POV

HOW TO BUILD A LIBRARY
Sundance 2025

Director:
Maia Lekow, Christopher King

About:
Two intrepid Nairobi women decide to transform what used to be a whites-only library until 1958 into a vibrant cultural hub. Along the way, they must navigate local politics, raise millions for the rebuild, and confront the lingering ghosts of Kenya’s colonial past.

>August 28
In Theatres

HANGING BY A WIRE
Sundance 2026

Director:
Mohammed Ali Naqvi

About:
A routine school commute turns terrifying when a cable car’s wire snaps, leaving eight passengers — including six schoolboys — dangling 900 feet above a ravine in the remote Himalayan foothills. With 10 hours before the remaining cable is expected to fail, a group of rescuers races to save them.

The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:

>July 3
In Theatres

SHERMAN’S MARCH
Sundance 1987

Director:
Ross McElwee

About:
Filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to retrace Sherman’s march through the South 100 years ago. Along the way he severely sidetracked and the result is a great deal of low-key hilarity.

>July 13
Streaming: Amazon Prime Video

MURDER 101
Sundance 2026

Director:
Stacey Lee

About:
A case that haunted Tennessee’s best detectives for decades is cracked wide open by the most unlikely of investigators: a high school sociology class.

>July 17
In Theatres

AMERICAN PACHUCO: THE LEGEND OF LUIS VALDEZ
Sundance 2026

Director:
David Alvarado

About:
Against political resistance and industry skepticism, Luis Valdez pushes Chicano storytelling from the fields to the film screen with ZOOT SUIT and LA BAMBA, crafting iconic works that challenge, celebrate, and expand America’s story.

>July 20
On TV: POV

THE DATING GAME
Sundance 2025

Director:
Violet Du Feng

About:
In a country where eligible men greatly outnumber women, three perpetual bachelors join an intensive seven-day dating camp led by one of China’s most sought-after dating coaches in what may be their last-ditch effort to find love.

>July 31
On TV: National Geographic

TIME AND WATER
Sundance 2026

Director:
Sara Dosa

About:
Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time, and water.

The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:

>June 4
Streaming: Kinema

COEXISTENCE, MY ASS!
Sundance 2025

Director:
Amber Fares

About:
Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi creates a personal and political one-woman show about the struggle for equality in Israel/Palestine. When the elusive coexistence she’s spent her life working toward starts sounding like a bad joke, she challenges her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter. 

>June 16
Streaming: Criterion Channel

ENO
Sundance 2024

Director:
Gary Hustwit

About:
Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno — known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing over 40 solo and collaboration albums — reveals his creative processes in this groundbreaking generative documentary: a film that’s different every time it’s shown.

The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:

>May 1
In Theatres

AMERICAN DREAM (1990)
Sundance 1991/2026

Director:
Barbara Kopple

About:
When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are forced to take a substantial pay cut, the local union takes a stand for its members. Their strike tests the fragile promise of the American ideal, revealing the cost of survival when the dream no longer feels shared.

>May 1
In Theatres

HARLAN COUNTY, USA (1976)
Sundance 2005 (restored version)

Director:
Barbara Kopple

About:
In 1970s Kentucky, coal miners and their families risk everything to stand up against a powerful mining company in a brutal, high-stakes labor strike.

>May 1
Streaming: Criterion Channel

CONBODY VS EVERYBODY
Sundance 2024

Director:
Debra Granik

About:
Over eight years, Coss Marte builds ConBody, a gym inspired by workouts he developed while in prison. Committed to employing trainers who were formerly incarcerated, Coss creates a community fighting to break the cycle of recidivism while navigating society’s many obstacles to reentry.

>May 5
On VOD

ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT
Sundance 2025

Director:
Tony Benna

About:
André, a brilliant idiot, is dying because he didn’t get a colonoscopy. His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence, and insatiable curiosity, send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humor.

>May 22
In Theatres

EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET
Sundance 2026

Director:
Felipe Bustos Sierra

About:
In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighborhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbors.

>May 25
On TV: Independent Lens

THIRD ACT
Sundance 2025

Director:
Tadashi Nakamura

About:
Generations of artists call Robert A Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American media,” but filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura calls him Dad. Robert’s diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease leads to an exploration of art, activism, grief, and fatherhood.

>May 29
In Theatres

TIME AND WATER
Sundance 2026

Director:
Sara Dosa

About:
Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time, and water.

The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:

>April 7
On DVD

MR NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN
Sundance 2025

Director:
David Borenstein

Co-Director:
Pavel Talankin

About:
As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his own school.

>April 28
Special Screening: DCTV Firehouse

CONBODY VS EVERYBODY
Sundance 2024

Director:
Debra Granik

About:
Over eight years, Coss Marte builds ConBody, a gym inspired by workouts he developed while in prison. Committed to employing trainers who were formerly incarcerated, Coss creates a community fighting to break the cycle of recidivism while navigating society’s many obstacles to reentry.

>April 29
On VOD

LIFE AFTER
Sundance 2025

Director:
Reid Davenport

About:
In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the “right to die,” igniting a national debate about autonomy, dignity, and the value of disabled lives. After years of courtroom trials, Bouvia disappeared from public view. Disabled director Reid Davenport narrates this investigation of what happened to Bouvia.

The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:

>March 6
In Theatres

ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT
Sundance 2025

Director:
Tony Benna

About:
André, a brilliant idiot, is dying because he didn’t get a colonoscopy. His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence, and insatiable curiosity, send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humor.

>March 17
On DVD

ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT
Sundance 2025

Director:
Charlie Shackleton

About:
Against the backdrop of sunbaked parking lots, deserted courthouses, and empty suburban homes — the familiar spaces of true crime, stripped of all action and spectacle — a filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.

>March 27
In Theatres

THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTOMIST
Sundance 2026

Director:
Daniel Roher, Charlie Tyrell

About:
A father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with the AI insanity, exploring the existential dangers and stunning promise of this technology that humanity has created.

The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:

>February 6
Streaming: Netflix

QUEEN OF CHESS
Sundance 2026

Director:
Rory Kennedy

About:
A Hungarian girl dreams of conquering international men’s chess. After a 15-year battle against world champion Garry Kasparov, Judit Polgár revolutionizes the sport’s patriarchal culture to become one of the greatest chess prodigies in history and the greatest woman chess player of all time.

>February 9
On TV: Independent Lens

THE LIBRARIANS
Sundance 2025

Director:
Kim A Snyder

About:
As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy.