Leon & Mary Strauss Documentary Spotlight
Sponsored by Mary Strauss
As an adjunct to Master Class: Microbudget Filmmaking with Blake Eckard and…
As a complement to Master Class: Documentary Filmmaking with Anne de Mare,…
As an adjunct to Master Class: Editing with Karen Pearlman, SLIFF offers a…
Anne de Mare explores the process of making a documentary film, focusing on…
When she encountered the work of Antonioni and Bergman, Rachel Reichman was…
People often say that good editing is invisible, but if that is the case,…
SLIFF is proud to kick off its 2020 edition with a special event featuring…
“9to5” is the latest film from heralded documentarians Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, whose “American…
“Aggie” explores the nexus of art, race, and justice through the story of art collector and philanthropist…
“America’s Last Little Italy” explores the deep historic roots of the Hill, St. Louis’ iconic Italian…
“And I Was There” provides a distinctive and potent take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that feels…
For four years in the 1860s, half of the United States was held hostage by an unrecognized white-…
“Ask No Questions” offers a fascinating and damning investigation of the Chinese government’s concerted…
This ambitious documentary by St. Louis-based filmmaker Matthew Rice analyzes how an ex-slave became one…
SLIFF is pleased to present a work-in-progress screening of a documentary on the Black Artists' Group (BAG…
In “Cachada,” which screened at last year’s SXSW, five El Salvadoran women who have lived difficult lives…
In the five-part documentary series “City So Real,” Oscar-nominated documentarian Steve James (“America to…
“Cured” illuminates a pivotal yet largely unknown chapter in the struggle for LGBTQ equality: the campaign…
“The Dilemma of Desire” explores female sexual desire and the powerful gender politics that revolve around…
Perspectives on animals, the environment, and the natural world.
A trio of films that examine different aspects of the prison system in the U.S.
A program that explores the Black experience from a multiplicity of perspectives.
Glimpses of family life both fraught and inspiring from around the globe.
Stories of deportees, asylum seekers, and undocumented immigrants from Latin America.
A collection of real-life stories told through a variety of animated techniques.
A sampler of films from students in the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the…
A trio of nonfiction shorts examining hard-won triumphs and continuing challenges in the LGBTQ community…
Nonfiction standouts from the 2020 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase and new works by artists with ties to the…
This double bill of near-feature-length shorts explores the lives of two icons of music and movies who…
A global survey of the myriad challenges faced by women both past and present.
“Finding Yingying” chronicles the search for Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old Chinese student who had only…
“Fish & Men” explores the high cost of cheap fish in the modern U.S. seafood economy, exposing the…
Winner of the first-ever Library of Congress/Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, “Flannery” is a lyrical,…
As her small, blue-collar city struggles to emerge from the opioid epidemic and gets caught up in battles…
How can the endangered city of Venice be preserved? Gianni Berengo Gardin, Italy’s most famous living…
Audience Choice Leon Award for Best Documentary Feature. “God Save the Wings” offers a…
Hamtramck, Mich. — part of the Detroit area — is a place built by immigrants. The city thrived thanks to…
German schools mandate that students learn about National Socialism and its devastating impact on the…
Sabrina Bouarour's “Lights of Baltimore” tells the story of the war of images surrounding Baltimore in the…
Skillfully adapting a massive book of the same name that chronicles every one of the 3,700 deaths…
“Machine” examines artificial intelligence (AI) — the most radical new technology of our time — from…
A real-life political saga, “Mayor” follows Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second…
“MLK/FBI,” the first film to uncover the extent of the FBI’s surveillance and harassment of Dr. Martin…
Rómulo is a private investigator hired to investigate a retirement home in Chile where a resident may be…
In “On Broadway,” directed by Academy Award nominee Oren Jacoby (for the short “Sister Rose’s Passion”),…
In Buenos Aires at the age of 16, Pedro Opeka declined an opportunity to become a professional soccer…
In “The Oratorio,” filmmaker Martin Scorsese helps tell the story of an 1826 performance that forever…
Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique has become one of Africa’s most celebrated wildlife-restoration…
The twisty, head-spinning investigative thriller “The Penny Black” begins when Will, the estranged son of…
Although a portrait of the troubled Rust Belt city of Youngstown, Ohio, “The Place That Makes Us” offers a…
Interfaith Award for Best Documentary. A work of timely urgency, director Michelle Grace…
At 88 years old, Audrey Flack — feminist, rebel, mother, painter, sculptor, and teacher — holds a unique…
Yes, there are Jews in Montana! There’s an evangelical strand of Hasidic Judaism — Chabad-Lubavitch —…
“The Reunited States” — both heartwarming and heartening — provides a much-needed balm in a time of…
The charming “Revival” documents a program by a New York City nonprofit — the interestingly named Dances…
For nearly three decades, Edward “Nardie” White has led an after-school community drum corps (River City…
Spotlight on Inspiration Documentary Competition Winner. “The Road Up” follows four…
On the Georgia barrier island of Sapelo — accessible only by boat — preteen brothers JerMarkest and…
As the country was embroiled in a divisive election and racial tensions flared, civil-rights activist and…
Filmed over five years in Kansas City, “Transhood” follows four transgender kids — beginning at ages 4, 7…
“Unapologetic” vividly captures a community of millennial organizers confronting an administration…
Directed by Peabody Award winner Abby Ginzberg — a two-time SLIFF alum with “And Then They Came for Us” in…
In June 2014, Ryan Candice, a high-achieving student at the University of Missouri, took his life days…
Called “the best American writer of his generation” and “our poet laureate of war,” Tim O’Brien is one of…
“Women in Blue” offers an unprecedented window on the inner workings of the Minneapolis Police Department…
Essy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Far from a typical music doc, “Zappa” is a…
