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Composer Morgan Doctor likes her high-waisted, wide-legged pants, a donation after her home with wife Ondi Timoner (“Last Flight Home”) was destroyed by the Eaton Fire. “She usually wears skinny jeans,” said the documentary filmmaker.

They are Zooming with me from the back of an airport town car en route to JFK. When the Eaton Fire exploded January 7 in Altadena, they were going to bed in Rome, preparing to embark on interviews and scouts for an upcoming and untitled Nazi documentary in Budapest, Vienna, and Florence, before returning to Rome. Overnight her home burned to the ground, along with a significant portion of her life’s work.

“I’m a little bit swollen from crying,” said Timoner. “I’m so exhausted that I constantly put my cold hands on my eyes, because they burn so hard.”

The devastation of losing so much is overwhelming and incalculable. However, the peripatetic filmmaker...

The 2024 Doc NYC festival has unveiled its winners.

The critically acclaimed festival, which is the largest documentary festival in the U.S., marked one of its most successful in-person editions yet, with more than 20,000 viewers having watched films over nine days in New York alongside more than 1,500 filmmaker and industry guests participating in screenings and panels.

The juries for each respective award, along with the coveted Audience Award, had tough competition among this year’s festival.

Among eight international features, Areeb Zuaiter’s feature debut “Yalla Parkour” was selected as the winner. “Yalla Parkour” had its world premiere at the festival, and centers on young parkour athletes in Gaza who practice the sport on a “conflict-scarred” landscape.

“The jury was unanimous in its choice for best international documentary,” the Doc NYC international jury, consisting of “Bobi Wine: The People’s President” filmmaker Moses Bwayo, “Little Richard: I Am Everything” director Lisa Cortes,...

One of the more engaging figures in Ondi Timoner’s 2022 documentary, “The Last Flight Home” — about the decision of her 92-year-old father, Eli Timoner, to use California’s end-of-life option — was the director’s sister, Rachel. A rabbi, Rachel Timoner brought a pastoral warmth and spiritual insight to the sorrows and joys, rites and spiritual reckoning of a family honoring their beloved’s departure.

Now, with “All God’s Children,” Timoner gives her older sister an affirming but unsentimental close-up. Still, this documentary isn’t a family memoir piece. Instead, Rachel Timoner, the chief rabbi of Brooklyn’s historic Congregation Beth Elohim, shares top billing with Reverend Dr. Robert Waterman, the lead pastor of Brooklyn’s equally storied Antioch Baptist Church, in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuy neighborhood.

The institutions are a mere four miles apart, but their leaders aim to traverse the wider gulfs of racism and antisemitism. “All God’s Children” follows...