The 20th annual Camden Intl. Film Festival, which kicks off on September 12, features a lineup of hot-button political documentaries that just screened in Toronto, Venice and Telluride. The Maine film festival will unfold in a hybrid format, with both in-person events over a four-day period ending on September 15, as well as online screenings available to U.S. audiences from September 16-30.

Highlights from this year’s CIFF include: Steve Pink’s “The Last Republican,” which chronicles former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s final year in office as he attempts to hold his own party accountable through his work on the Jan 6 Committee. The doc will have its world premiere at TIFF. Also screening is Michael Premo’s “Homegrown,” which follows a group of Donald Trump supremacist supporters from the 2020 campaign to the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The film will debut in the Venice Film Festival’s debut filmmakers’ sidebar Venice Critics’ Week. “No Other Land,” which chronicles Palestinian activists’ resistance to forced displacement and colonization expansion in the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February, where it won Best Documentary.

Another CIFF 2024 title focusing on politics is Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk and Pedro Kos’s “The White House Effect” — a compelling, full-archive investigation into how the first Bush administration navigated the early days of the climate crisis.

The 20th edition of the documentary festival will feature two world premieres: Adam Sekuler's "The Flamingo," a portrait of a woman in her mid-sixties rediscovering her agency and sexuality through the BDSM community, and Matthew Wolkow and Jean-Jacques Martinod's "Eastern Anthems," an epistolary essay documentary about the US during the COVID-19 pandemic.