Film Series

Pursuing Vérité, Wherever the Trail Leads

Art of the Real at the Film Society of Lincoln Center

The Film Society’s annual showcase of movies that challenge the boundaries of nonfiction filmmaking this year includes fragments of one ambitious, uncompleted project that was on track to stretch them to their limits. The Austrian director Michael Glawogger, known for lending scenes of utter squalor a discomfiting aesthetic loveliness (“Workingman’s Death”), died three years ago, months into filming what was meant to be a globe-touring project. His editor, Monika Willi, has assembled his findings up to that point in “Untitled” (Friday). The lineup also includes “World Without End (No Reported Incidents),” a new film by Jem Cohen (“Museum Hours”); “Pow Wow,” from Robinson Devor (“Zoo”); and a tribute to the Brazilian underground filmmaker Andrea Tonacci, who died in December. The program will close on May 2 with a showing of Laura Poitras’s “Risk,” a portrait of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, that has been recut to reflect events since its premiere last May. BEN KENIGSBERG

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