The New Yorker Documentary
“Incident” Shows How Officers React When a Police Killing Is Caught on Tape
A collection of surveillance and body-camera footage offers a raw look at the 2018 shooting of Harith Augustus, and at the immediate attempts to shape the story.
Friendship and Hard Work Amid Italy’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric, in “Fratelli Carbonai”
A young man from Mali carves out a life for himself in an ancient trade in the Calabrian mountains, when the nation’s politics take a hard right turn.
A Drag Story Hour Simply Observed in “It’s Okay”
Amid an overheated national argument, David France, the director of “How to Survive a Plague,” replaces perception with reality.
A Girl’s Forced Marriage in Post-Invasion Afghanistan, in “Hills and Mountains”
An accusation levelled against a teen-age girl changes the course of her life, in Salar Pashtoonyar’s documentary about life after the Soviet-Afghan war.
Black Joy and Artistry Hit the Pool in “Slice”
A Memphis tradition, the diving style known as slicing requires creativity, athleticism, and a lot of swagger.
Family Bonds Protect a Trans Teen in Texas
The documentary “Love to the Max” captures one family’s determination to live authentically in an anti-trans political climate.
The Black Mothers Fighting to Get Their Kids Back, in “To Be Invisible”
Myah Overstreet’s film follows two women trying to regain custody of their children and explores the injustice of family separation.
Connecting with Trans History, Rebellion, and Joy, in “Compton’s 22”
Drew de Pinto’s documentary explores the legacy of a 1966 riot in the Tenderloin that was nearly lost to history.
Laughing in the Face of Dying Young, in “Cherry”
The actor Marie-Lise Chouinard faces her terminal-cancer diagnosis with grace and comedy in Laurence Gagné-Frégeau’s short documentary.
An Iranian Woman Finds Her Might, in “The Smallest Power”
Both the subject and the makers of this animated short discover their identities and a new love of their nation.