Creature Discomfort: Docu Explores the Long Rift Between Neighbors
Adding to the docu sub-genre of our ecological collapse, more of an observational docu than indictment, Nuisance Bear carries an unsettling air of accommodation toward a new reality shaped by dumb tourism, government oversight, and the slow erosion of Inuit traditions. A decade-long journey filled with alarming images of two things that should not be part of the same frame, Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman offer a fascinating account about the thin line between protector and intruder — a shared space between the species where the polar bear community are indeed the collateral damage.… Read the rest
How can anything else hold your focus when you’re watching your country unravel before your eyes? There are the type of altruistic people that will happily (and heroically) put others before themselves even if it means sacrificing their own safety and comfort. This emphatically applies to the courageous directing tandem and subjects in Lebanese Arabic BBC correspondent Janay Boulos and Syrian photographer and activist Abd Alkader Habak. By placing the focus on their slow, tentative romance amid war, Birds of War shows how an intimate love story can coexist with far larger, more harrowing realities, from the oppression of the Syrian regime to political unrest in Lebanon.… 
With immigration unlikely to fade as a pressing issue in the U.K. anytime soon, Chilean-Belgian filmmaker 
Grief is never linear; it reshapes us as we grow and changes after loss, often leaving us struggling to find the words to express what and how we feel. Exploring both inner and outer worlds through the lens of director William D. Caballero, we find a meta-documentary debut with a multitude of animation styles used to primarily focus on his mother Milly. Having selflessly given much of her later years to caregiving duties for dying members of his family, Caballero uses this as a jumping off point to explore his own grievances with identity, sexuality, sacrifice and the human condition.… 
