This issue includes:

Features:

Making a Production: Muyi Film/Silk Road Film Salon by Hugo Emmerzael Producer Jia Zhao reflects on what it takes to stay independent from any single funder

Blunt Trauma by Natalia Keogan Filmmaker Ashley Da-Lê Duong and her father confront familial traumas in her hybrid doc Ba’s Book

What Cannot Be Sold by Öykü Sofuoğlu Paris’s last associative cinema reopened in January under an ownership structure its creators designed to outlive them

Band Together by Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer On the promises and perils of filmmaker cooperatives, new and old

“What’s Your Role?” by Spencer Nakasako The co-directors of A Fox Under a Pink Moon discuss the vision that guided their years-long remote collaboration

Homecoming: CentraDoc by Daniel Larios The inaugural Guatemala-based festival aims to be a hub for Central American nonfiction

Not Waiting for the Rain at Getting Real '26 by Anthony Kaufman Amid the field’s arid conditions, conference speakers offered tangible means and methods for sustenance

Possibilities and Limitations at Getting Real '26 by Jawni Han At this year’s convening, attendees were encouraged to rethink documentary’s role and value as an agent of social change

Festivals:

DokuFest 2026: “Cinema Is Not a Luxury” by Karen Cirillo At the 25th edition of the Prizren-based fest, archival excavation and documentary hybridity took center stage

Columns:

Letter From the Editor (Abby Sun)

Notes From the Real (Dominic Asmall Willsdon)

What’s in My Bag (Shaandiin Tome)

What’s on My Desk (Yaël Bitton)

Screen Time: Summer 2026: Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That’s the Weight of the World), Flamingos: Life After the Meteorite, Give It a Shot, Hell’s Highway, Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, Murder 101, North Sea, Nature Untamed, Our Body Is an Expanding Star, What Should We Have Done?