MAJLINDA HOXHA / JANUS FILMS
The cinematographer becomes the director in Kirsten Johnson’s empathetic, collage-style documentary about her 25-year career behind the camera. She builds the audiovisual memoir around outtakes from films on which she contributed, which means that she’s sharing her process as much as her work. She pulls weeds to get a better ground-level shot in Bosnia, wipes dust from her camera in Yemen, and switches focus from a dancer in Uganda to the attention-seeker pulling crazy faces behind him.