Documentary

The genre, long celebrated for its lush visuals and hard-won footage, is increasingly reckoning with the fact that the landscapes and the species it showcases may soon be gone forever.

Usually seen as a document of the band’s breakup, the documentary, newly restored by Peter Jackson, is just as much a record of freewheeling inspiration.

The actor Marie-Lise Chouinard faces her terminal-cancer diagnosis with grace and comedy in Laurence Gagné-Frégeau’s short documentary.

Both the subject and the makers of this animated short discover their identities and a new love of their nation.

In Alec Sutherland’s short film, upstate New York’s demolition derbies are a loud, brutal, deeply physical antidote to the isolation of digital life.

Noah Schamus and Brit Fryer’s short film offers a vision of how physicians and trans patients can meet one another on equal footing.

Lindsay Opoku-Acheampong’s film “Textures” follows three women through the private and meaningful rituals of caring for their hair.

In Charles Frank’s short film, a young man offers a candid look at life with O.C.D. and his experiences with exposure therapy.

Nicola Fegg’s short documentary follows a young woman who becomes a social-media star during the war in Ukraine.

Justin Fairweather’s short film “Roger J. Carter: Rebel Revolutionary” shows how the artist arrived at his innovative way of making portraits of Black figures.

Scott Krahn and Robb Fischer’s short film follows a trio of friends who take part in a bowling league for people who are visually impaired.

Reflecting on the civil-rights era in the nineteen-eighties, the author sounds like our contemporary.

John Hoffman and Christine Turner’s short film follows Arlo Washington as he helps members of his community escape the hazards of banking while Black.

An Egyptian teen-ager, living in the suburbs of Montreal with his brother and father, confronts the sting of racism at home, in the writer and director Aziz Zoromba’s film “Simo.”

The filmmakers Ben Wolin and Michael Minahan’s documentary short follows Daniel Kish, who uses clicks and echoes to listen his way through the world.

Khalil Sahragard’s documentary short follows an amputee in Kurdistan who carves prosthetics for others who, like him, have lost limbs to explosives after the Iran-Iraq War.

In Samantha Sanders’s documentary short, a group of Chicago women find pandemic solace, in a death-defying winter ritual.

Beyoncé’s nearly three-hour-long concert film captures a grandiose affair, but it also has its own lofty aspirations.

In María Luisa Santos and Carlo Nasisse’s short film, addresses suggest an alternative understanding of space and time.

Jeremy Workman and Robert Lyons’s film reconstructs the passage of a 1970 law that made the state a sanctuary for people seeking abortions, and cost a lawmaker his career.