An important part of every balanced cinematic diet is the political movie. Like any other art form, we need films that question authority, challenge our status quo and reexamine the structures any ...

The journey of Vijay from a mass entertainer to the face of Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam is not a sudden leap into politics, but a carefully layered narrative built over years through cinema. Long before ...

Two timely and politically-charged films have won the top prizes at the Berlin Film Festival's Panorama section, the festival's main sidebar. Faraz Shariat's Prosecution, a German drama about a young ...

Question: As life more eerily resembles art in Washington, what are the best American political movies? Answer: America has a long and storied history of engaging politics through film, and some of ...

With Election Day approaching, thoughts turn to campaigns past, as well as movies about them. From the moment D.W. Griffith released "Birth of a Nation," political leaders and their best and worst ...

While the Imtiaz Ali film struggles to justify its interreligious harmonious society of the past, there is no such contradiction with the director of Article 370, Aditya Suhas Jambhale, as he is ...

Readying for its 22 nd edition, Polish fest Millennium Docs Against Gravity isn’t shying away from politically charged content, opening with “Coexistence, My Ass!” Its protagonist, pro-Palestinian ...

At the 2025 edition of CPH:DOX, extreme political tension in the U.S. and parts of Europe cast a cloud of uncertainty over the Copenhagen-based documentary film festival. While nonfiction films that ...

Can film festivals also be political spaces? That was the absurd question that ran through this year’s Berlin Film Festival. It all began with jury president Wim Wenders saying during the fest’s ...