Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
All in Documentary
This visually sumptuous and poetic portrait of elderly men who hunt for the culinary delicacy with trained dogs captures a disappearing quirk of Northern Italian culture.
Traylor, a former slave, created an artistic legacy rediscovered in the 1980s by both the art world and the artist’s many descendants.
The Asheville Movie Guys dissect this year’s non-fiction finalists.
This documentary about Pope Francis elucidates his struggle to bend the world to goodness in areas from climate to tolerance — and admits few flaws.
This doc addresses a central Asheville aesthetic — the history of the Arts + Crafts movement — and includes a local expert.
This slice-of-street-life documentary follows a stray dog around Istanbul, where she bonds with some homeless teenage Syrian refugees.
The documentary on the Grammy-winning artist provides an in-depth look at a budding musical talent.
This visually creative doc introduces the philosophers and pick-up artists who work behind counters at a Brazilian supermarket.
Davy Rothbart’s innovative, heartbreaking documentary chronicles 20 years in the life of a Washington, D.C. family.
Garin Hovannisian’s lean documentary smartly chronicles System of a Down’s musical history and ongoing political legacy.
Do we need another Ginsburg documentary so soon after “RBG”? Our ruling is that yes, yes we do.
The “Room 237” director documents another compelling outsider community: those who subscribe to “simulation theory.”
What’s it like to own a Rembrandt? To discover one? To restore one? To sell one — or two? This fascinating Dutch documentary has the answers.
An entertaining but fairly shallow documentary about Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp.
Jerry Rothwell’s documentary provides a welcome bridge into the minds of nonspeaking autistic people.
This engaging, well-made documentary focuses on three unhappy households among the 130,000 residents of a Florida retirement community called The Villages.
“Yet Another Young Monk Documentary” becomes something far more intriguing with the introduction of modern technology.
Directors Ian Cheney and Martha Shane take a seemingly frivolous subject and fortify it with unexpected profundity.
This slim documentary on Dolly Parton's Imagination Library will immerse you in untarnished goodness for an hour or so.
