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Cinemafile

Cinemafile showcases the very best in independent, documentary and foreign films through our conversations with the more than 2,000 filmmakers who made them. Through Cinemafile we will do our best to bring the most interesting and accomplished filmmakers from around the world to your attention.

tv & film film interviews

All Episodes

19:49

All God’s Children - Directed by Ondi Timoner

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/21

Award-winning filmmaker Ondi Timoner latest film, ALL GOD”S CHILDREN, explores the intersection of race, religion and family and explores whether the truism “we’re more alike than we are different” is more than a pithy bumper sticker. In an unprecedented attempt to heal centuries of racism and antisemitism, and combat the rising racial and ethnic tension in their Brooklyn communities, the largest reform synagogue and the oldest black Baptist Church in Brooklyn attempt to quell the racism and

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18:18

The Baltimorons - Lead Actor / Producer Michael...

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/21

On Christmas Eve, Cliff, a newly sober improv comedian, cracks a tooth and lands in the emergency care of Didi, an older no-nonsense dentist. What begins as a routine check-up sparksan unpredictable evening of misadventures. Together,Cliff and Didi fight toovercome being shut out by their families, face their biggest fears, and discover their own surprising and tender connection. About the filmmaker - Michael Strassner is an actor, writer, and director known for THE BALTIMORONS which he is the lead

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20:59

*Best of 2025* - Jazzy - Director Morrisa Maltz

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/20

In this follow-up to her award-winning film THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY, Film Independent Spirit Awards nominee filmmaker Morrisa Maltz's latest project, JAZZY, is an intimate portrait of Jasmine Bearkiller Shangreaux, a young Oglala Lakota girl growing up in Spearfish, South Dakota, from the ages of six to twelve. When Jazzy finds out her best friend Syriah (Syriah Fool Head Means) is moving, she is confronted with the pains of growing up and the realities of the adult world. JAZZY was shot over 6 years

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15:11

*Best of 2025* - Grand Tour - Director Miguel Gomes

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/19

From Miguel Gomes, the award winning director of Tabu and Arabian Nights, comes a globe-trotting tale of unrequited love. Earning Gomes the Best Director prize at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, Grand Tour blends melodrama and screwball comedy in this cat-and-mouse chase between lovers. 1917, colonial Burma. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, jilts his lovestruck fiancée Molly the day she arrives to be married. As he escapes into an unexpected odyssey across Asia, she quickly follows

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13:23

Somnium - Director Racheal Cain

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/18

Director Rachael Cain's SOMNIUM follows the harrowing story of a young woman trying to figure things out. After a painful breakup, Gemma moves to Los Angeles with the hopes of making it big. To get on her feet, she takes a job working the overnight shift at SOMNIUM - a mysterious, experimental sleep clinic where dreams are made real. Meanwhile, Gemma throws herself into the cutthroat world of Hollywood auditions. But as the pressure to succeed mounts, she begins to experience strange and unsettling

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16:39

Naked Ambition - Co-directors Dennis Scholl and...

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/18

Bunny Yeager, once heralded as the world’s prettiest photographer, had a huge influence on 20th-century pop culture, though few people know her name. Whether by popularizing the bikini, helping discover Bettie Page, shaping the image of Playboy, or inventing the selfie, Bunny was a trailblazer whose work bucked against conservative 1950s America and helped pave the way for the feminist movement and the sexual revolution. Yet the very changes she helped usher in would soon render her a forgotten

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17:01

*Best of 2025* - Eephus - Director Carson Lund

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/14

Carson Lund’s feature film debut, EEPHUS, focuses on two recreational baseball teams, the River Dogs and Adler’s Paint. The two teams have been meeting on their New England field on Sunday afternoons for longer than anyone can remember. These middle-aged sportsmen can’t run as fast as they used to or connect as reliably with a pitch, but their vigorous appetite for socializing, squabbling, and busting chops remains undiminished. After the know-nothing county board opts to raze the baseball diamond

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17:44

*Best of 2025* - Bob Trevino Likes It - Director...

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/13

BOB TREVINO LIKES IT is inspired by the true friendship that writer/director Tracie Laymon found with a stranger when looking for her father online. Often playing the role of caretaker to people like her father who should be caring for her, Lily Trevino longs for a familial connection, having been abandoned by her mother as a child and then suddenly by her father in her twenties. When her father, Robert, finally checks out of her life, Lily looks for him on the internet. She tries to “friend” a man

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18:07

All the Walls Came Down - Director Ondi Timoner

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/13

When the devastating Eaton fire destroyed her home and life’s work in Altadena, California, award-winning filmmaker Ondi Timoner’s ALL THE WALLS CAME DOWN is a powerful meditation on loss, resilience, and transformation—an urgent portrait of generational families facing displacement, and a town coming together in the face of destruction. A story of rupture and renewal, ALL THE WALLS CAME DOWN reveals what remains when the physical structures of life disappear—and the healing that can happen through

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13:24

Clemente - Director David Altrogge

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/12

Clemente is the definitive documentary on the extraordinary life, career, and enduring legacy of Major League Baseball icon Roberto Clemente. Told through stunning archival footage, never-before-heard recordings, and unprecedented interviews, the film reveals the story of a man who lived by his own uncompromising code. A double outsider—too Black for white America and too Latino for Black America—Clemente refused to stay silent in the face of racism and injustice.Through sheer determination and

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18:07

Lost in the Jungle - Co-directors Elizabeth Chai...

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/12

After a deadly plane crash strands four young siblings deep within the Colombian rainforest, a dramatic rescue mission unfolds, uniting Indigenous trackers and the military in a race against time. For the first time ever, LOST IN THE JUNGLE offers the exclusive account of this incredible true story directly from the children themselves and the rescuers who scoured the Amazon rainforest for a grueling 40 days and nights to find them. From National Geographic Documentary Films and Academy

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18:51

*Best of 2025* - Sally - Director Cristina Costantini

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/07

Sally Ride became the first American woman to blast off into space, but beneath her unflappable composure, she carried a secret. Sally’s life partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy, reveals their hidden romance and the sacrifices that accompanied her 27 years together with Sally, telling the full story of this complicated and iconic astronaut for the first time. In addition to Tam O’ Shaughnessy, SALLY features acclaimed tennis star and groundbreaking advocate for women and LGBTQ+ rights, Billie Jean King, as

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17:15

*Best of 2025* - Between the Mountain and the Sky -...

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/06

In this emotionally wrenching feature documentary, Between the Mountain and the Sky, director Jeremy Power Regimbal explores the life a Maggie Doyne, a selfless young woman who has radically change the lives of hundreds of orphaned children in a land she barely knew. After graduating high school in 2005, Maggie Doyne embarked on a gap year from her university studies, to visit Nepal, While there she met Tope, a now grown Nepalese orphan, caring for orphaned children. United in purpose, Maggie and

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22:18

Angelheaded Hipster - Director Ethan Silverman

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/06

Director Ethan Silverman’s ANGELHEADED HIPSTER: THE SONGS OF MARC BOLAN & T-REX is a visually rich and musically daring documentary that fluidly moves between 1970s glam-rock stages and 21st-century recording studios. The film chronicles the creation of the late Hal Willner’s star-studded tribute album—featuring U2, Nick Cave, Joan Jett, Macy Gray, Father John Misty, and more—while weaving in rare archival performances and interviews with Marc Bolan, Elton John, Ringo Starr, and David Bowie

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18:04

The Fantastic Golem Affairs - Co-directors Juan...

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/06

The Fantastic Golem Affairs begins with Juan and David playing a movie guessing game on a rooftop. During an animated round, David strips naked, mimics a monkey and accidentally falls to his death. However, instead of a conventional fatal impact, his body inexplicably shatters into ceramic-like fragments. Juan, devastated and confused, attends David’s funeral, where his remains are treated with eerie indifference. Determined to uncover the truth behind his friend’s bizarre demise, Juan embarks on an

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21:45

Forestera - Director Lucia Aleñar Iglesias

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/06

In her provocative and gripping debut film, FORASTERA Director Lucia Aleñar Iglesias hones in on young woman, Cata, (Zoe Stein) has to deal with the trauma of the sudden death of her grandmother, which only she witnesses. Her grief shifts when she casually turns to play pretend, transforming into the deceased. What begins with a game of dress-up will blur the lines of reality and family roles. Time stops in this house that, strangely, already felt stuck in time. Unable to process her grief, Cata

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17:35

*Best of 2025* River of Grass - Director Sasha Wortzel

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/05

RIVER OF GRASSis a present-day reimagining of Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s groundbreaking book, “The Everglades: River of Grass,” (1947), which transformed the public’s understanding of the area from worthless swamps to an essential source of freshwater, enabling the ecosystem to endure, just barely, today.In the wake of a hurricane, Douglas visits filmmaker Sasha Wortzel in a dream and catalyzes a prismatic study of a wilderness that is home to a rich history and a site of resistance in the face of

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18:14

*Best of 2025* The Bibi Files - Director Alexis Bloom

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/05

Alexis Bloom’s blistering documentary THE BIBI FILES is an urgent journalistic exposé based on unseen leaked footage of police interrogations of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as his wife Sara and son Yair. The film explores the corruption cases that resulted in Netanyahu’s indictment on breach of trust, bribery, and fraud in 2019.. Many Israelis believe that Netanyahu’s attempts to delay his trial are key to understanding his current policies regarding war and the return of

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22:24

Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted - Co-director Isaac...

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/04

SWAMP DOGG GETS HIS POOL PAINTED is a wildly entertaining and fittingly unconventional documentary about convention-defying singer, songwriter and record producer Jerry Williams, aka Swamp Dogg, one of the great cult figures of 20th-century American music whose singular voice and ideas have shaped the history not merely of soul music, but of country, hip-hop and a dozen other genres. In SWAMP DOGG GETS HIS POOL PAINTED, the titular artist and his “bachelor pad of aging musicians”, including the

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20:26

Democracy Noir - Director Connie Field

Cinemafile ·

2025/09/04

Amidst the brazen rise of 21st century authoritarianism, few politicians have proven as corrupt and adept at undermining democracy as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. A hero to his country’s Christian conservative population and a role model to the right-wing political movement in Europe and to Donald Trump and the Republicans in United States - Orbán takes carefully crafted, methodical steps to chip away at Hungarian democratic institutions while maintaining popularity with a majority of

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