Cover: Fuera de Campo/Lucas Gallo (December) Features: Fictional Documentarians, Mandy Chang, Tikkun Olam Productions, Our Land, Theatrical Booking. Festivals: CPH:DOX 2026, Tawain International Doc Festival 2026. Columns: Letter from the Editor, Notes From the Real, What‘s in My Bag (XUE Ming), What‘s on My Desk (Qutaiba Barhamji), Screen Time.

Greatest Docs of the 21st Century: Top 25, Singular Picks

Cover: Scott McElwee (Remake). Features: Artegios Distribución, Fortuyn: On-Hollands, Melania, Meta’s ad restrictions, The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru, no-fly year. Festivals: IFFR 2026, Kolkata People’s Film Festival 2026. Columns: What‘s in My Bag (Katy Scoggin), What‘s on My Desk (Daniel Garber), Legal FAQ: Production Insurance, Screen Time.

Cover: Brittany Shyne (Seeds). Features: Sugar Studios, The Perfect Neighbor, Caribbean documentaries, nuclear documentaries, Julie Goldman, Impact Partners. Festivals: DOK Leipzig 2025, Ji.hlava 2025. Columns: Screen Time.

Cover: Petra Costa (Apocalypse in the Tropics). Features: Mstyslav Chernov on 2000 Meters to Adriivka, Brent and Craig Renaud, San Quentin Film Festival, David Osit on Predators. Festivals: Tribeca 2025, BlackStar 2025. Columns: Producer's Diary (In Waves and War), Screen Time.

Cover: Heiny Srour (The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived, Leila and the Wolves). Features: PINKS, María Alejandra Rojas and Arturo Salazar, Katja Raganelli, Rintu Thomas on Writing With Fire. Festivals: Doc's Kingdom 2024, CPH:DOX 2025, Jeonju 2025. Columns: AI Tips for U.S. Documentary Filmmakers, Screen Time.

Cover: an extended conversation between film writer Öykü Sofuoğlu and Johan Grimonprez, a filmmaker known for spending years and years researching projects and making wondrous use of archival material, on the worldwide release of his latest, Soundtrack to a Coup d’État. Special dossier: four articles on how policy could help documentary filmmakers.