2.60 2024 Documentaries Recap

I am joined on the podcast today by fellow Substack author

Vicki Lesley

from

Meandering over the pebbles

where we sit down to discuss 2024 in documentaries. We review the Oscar short lists that were announced earlier this week, and talk about a few of our favorites as well as some of the titles that were missing from these lists.

The full list of short listed documentaries is below.

Documentary Feature

• The Bibi Files

• Black Box Diaries

• Dahomey

• Daughters

• Eno

• Frida

• Hollywoodgate

• No Other Land

• Porcelain War

• Queendom

• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

• Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

• Sugarcane

• Union

• Will & Harper

Documentary Short Subject

• “Chasing Roo”

• “Death by Numbers”

• “Eternal Father”

• “I Am Ready, Warden”

• “Incident”

• “Instruments of a Beating Heart”

• “Keeper”

• “Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World”

• “Once upon a Time in Ukraine”

• “The Only Girl in the Orchestra”

• “Planetwalker”

• “The Quilters”

• “Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr”

• “A Swim Lesson”

• “Until He’s Back”

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