‘The Territory’ and ‘Three Minutes: A Lengthening’ find cinematic hope in tragedy

If the pandemic has taught Hollywood anything, it’s that storytelling finds a way. Witness two new documentaries in which first-time directors not only deal with memory and loss but also embed them in cameras and images.

The Territory, Alex Pritz’s look at a threatened Indigenous community in Brazil shows how cameras can be weapons. Three Minutes: A Lengthening, Bianca Stigter’s striking exercise in cinematic forensics reinvents form — turning three minutes and 33 seconds of pre-WWII vacation footage into a 69-minute detective story.

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