Whereas the top of 2023 and first months of 2024 have yielded a trove of bold, horrifying, and heartbreaking documentaries (see: Occupied Metropolis, Dario Argento Panico, 20 Days in Mariupol), together with a soupçon of movie star dish (see: Frida, Steve! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Items), the spring and summer season seasons promise a hodgepodge of nonfiction movies which can be equally insightful, scandalous, activist, or unmistakably weird. Right here, our fast information to some of essentially the most thrilling documentaries coming quickly to a theater or streaming service.

Kim’s Video

Kim’s Video tells the quirky true story of how New York dry cleaner Youngman Kim based Kim’s Video, a downtown establishment that impressed a era of cinephiles, filmmakers, and hipsters with its catalog of 55,000 unbiased, obscure, and bootlegged movies. When Kim decides to shut his chain of shops in 2008 and provide his video assortment to consumers, a small Sicilian city with inventive aspirations purchases it intact, solely to bury its location. Administrators David Redmon and Ashley Sabin journey to the small Italian city to seek out out what turned of Kim’s assortment—and hopefully return it to New York.

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