For several years now, the most consistently adventurous, unpredictable, intelligent, and dynamic films have been works of nonfiction. While never a simple, stodgy, info-based category of film—regardless of what some have claimed or assumed—today’s nonfiction filmmakers are newly committed to inventing new genres and modes, and to expanding, exploding, refining, and interrogating them as they happen. These are days of artistic masterpieces, cris de coeur, impeccably crafted yarns, and purposefully irreconcilable experiments all working within the deceptively nondescript “documentary” catchall. This ongoing series will showcase some of the most exciting and challenging works of recent nonfiction.

Organized by Associate Curator of Film Eric Hynes

Screening & Live Event
Of Men and War
Sunday, April 17, 3:30 p.m. Screening & Live Event
Sweaty Betty
Sunday, April 17, 7:00 p.m. Screening
The Chinese Mayor
Sunday, June 26, 4:00 p.m. Screening & Live Event
Approaching the Elephant
Sunday, June 26, 6:30 p.m. Screening & Live Event
Raising Bertie
Sunday, August 28, 7:00 p.m. Screening & Live Event
Nuts!
Saturday, October 1, 6:30 p.m. Screening & Live Event
Kate Plays Christine
Saturday, October 22, 4:00 p.m. Bartos Theater Screening & Live Event
Fire at Sea
Thursday, January 12, 7:00 p.m. Redstone Theater Screening & Live Event
The Illinois Parables
Sunday, March 19, 6:30 p.m. Bartos Screening Room Screening & Live Event
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Sunday, March 19, 6:30 p.m. Bartos Screening Room Screening & Live Event
Contemporary Color
Friday, April 28, 7:00 p.m. Redstone Theater Screening
F*ck for Forest
Sunday, June 4, 6:30 p.m. Bartos Screening Room Screening & Live Event
Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory
Sunday, July 16, 6:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room Screening
Two by Bill Morrison: Beyond Zero: 1914–1918 and J…
Sunday, August 20, 4:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room New Release
Close Relations (Rodnye)
Sunday, September 24, 6:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room Screening
Mama Colonel
Saturday, October 7, 4:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room Preview Screening & Live Event
The Departure with Lana Wilson in person
Saturday, October 7, 6:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room Screening & Live Event
I Am Another You
Sunday, October 29, 4:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room Screening & Live Event
The Work
Sunday, November 12, 7:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room Screening
The Challenge
Sunday, December 17, 2:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room Screening & Live Event
Dina
Sunday, December 17, 4:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room Screening
Last Men in Aleppo
Saturday, March 3, 6:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room Screening & Live Event
Spettacolo
Sunday, April 8, 6:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room Screening & Live Event
The Stairs
Sunday, April 15, 6:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

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