Unorthodocs and Vanishing Acts in The Box

Subject checks in with the “stars” of some of the most significant documentaries of the past few decades—Capturing the Friedmans, Hoop Dreams, Minding the Gap, The Square, The Staircase, and The Wolfpack.

Highlights of this always-popular program include Midwaste by FotoFocus artist Liz Roberts and heron 1954–2002 by Alexis McCrimmon, an editor in the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Studio and the sound designer on Midwaste.

Centered on Slave to the Sirens, the Middle East’s first all-female metal band, Sirens follows the band’s founders and guitarists as they try to navigate staying bandmates and friends after their romantic relationship with each other has ended.

A program of the group’s early short films from the mid ‘60s to the mid ‘80s. Made against the backdrop of long-term civil war, they offer a remarkable glimpse into this seldom seen moment in film history.

A program of the group’s early short films from the mid ‘60s to the mid ‘80s. Made against the backdrop of long-term civil war, they offer a remarkable glimpse into this seldom seen moment in film history.

Four elderly veteran directors from the Sudanese Film Group, tired of their involuntary retirement after years of governmental cinema censorship, work to bring cinema going back to their crisis-ridden country.

Examine the economic and cultural forces at play on the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i through a kaleidoscopic collage of home movies from four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simon’s family, Clips from numerous Hollywood productions, and troves of found footage.

Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff returns to the plot of South Carolina land that has been in his family since the 1860s to explore ideas of Black inheritance, generational wisdom and collective history.

An eclectic program of short films that are unified by the filmmaker’s deep sense of inquisitiveness and playful point of view, including The Universal Language, a look at the history of the utopian language Esperanto.

A charming and captivating hangout movie that examines issues of love, identity, collectivity, and individuality through six Spanish trans women who head to the countryside for a weekend cabin getaway.

A provocative and powerful new documentary that looks at why nations struggle to acknowledge problematic aspects of their own history, focused on a 1948 massacre that’s alleged to have occurred during Israel’s founding.

The new film by renowned Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán documents the massive social protest movement that swept Chile from 2019-2021 and led to the regime-changing election of a new left-wing coalition.