Weiner

Weiner (2016) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Directors Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg secured almost unlimited access to a campaign headquarters and filmed, from the inside, a political career falling apart in front of the lens.

At the center is Anthony Weiner, a former congressman trying to climb back in 2013 with a run for mayor of New York City. The opening is strong: charisma, name recognition, a real shot at a fresh start. Then a new sexting scandal surfaces and the campaign curdles into a public collapse. The camera stays in the room when everyone else wants to look away, capturing the quiet anguish of his wife, Huma Abedin, whose silence lands harder than any speech.

The film took the Grand Jury Prize for documentary at Sundance and stands as a rare close-up on ambition, pride and self-sabotage at work. Watch it for the unnerving sense of sitting inside a disaster no one can stop. Stream Weiner (2016) online on iFILM.