Frida

Frida (2024) is a documentary about Frida Kahlo you can watch online on iFILM. There's no outside narrator here — the painter tells her own story, pieced together by director Carla Gutiérrez from Kahlo's diaries, letters, essays, and interviews.

What surfaces is a life drawn in her words: the bus crash that shattered her body, the stormy marriage to Diego Rivera, the politics, the pain, the dozens of self-portraits. Her paintings move on screen too, with animation pulled straight from her own canvases — same colors, same restless line.

This is the directing debut of Carla Gutiérrez, long an editor of documentaries, and it premiered at Sundance in 2024. Eighty-seven minutes where the artwork and the private journal fuse into a single voice. For anyone who'd rather hear Kahlo speak for herself than through a biographer. Stream Frida (2024) online on iFILM.