photography Harley WeirFilm & TVNewsFilm & TV / NewsRihanna’s new documentary is set to release very soonDirector Peter Berg said the film, announced back in 2016, should only be a couple of months awayShareLink copied ✔️August 18, 2018August 18, 2018TextThom Waite Way back in 2016 it was announced that we were getting a Rihanna documentary from Peter Berg, director of Lone Survivor and 2012’s Battleship (the film that saw the singer in her first major acting role). Since then there’s been little news on the film, but Berg has revealed in a recent interview that we can expect to see it very soon. In a SlashFilm interview to promote his new movie Mile 22, posted August 17, the director says, “the movie will be out in about a month and a half, two months we’ll be able to start showing it,” before going on to detail Rihanna’s brilliance (as if we didn’t already know). “I think she’s an extraordinary young woman and [the film] really is kind of a pretty comprehensive profile of what goes in to making her this talent that she is,” he says. “The work ethic, the talent, luck, the hustle, the vision. She’s a really, really interesting woman.” This sentiment was reflected in the film’s original promotional materials from 2016, which said it would offer an “unfiltered look into Rihanna’s life and how she’s ascended to become a global icon”. While Berg has presumably been working away on the documentary, Rihanna’s been spotted in Havana, Cuba, potentially working on a new film with Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino). Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREBen Whishaw on the power of Peter Hujar’s photography: ‘It feels alive’Atropia: An absurdist love story set in a mock Iraqi military villageMeet the new generation of British actors reshaping Hollywood Sentimental Value is a raw study of generational traumaJosh Safdie on Marty Supreme: ‘One dream has to end for another to begin’Animalia: An eerie feminist sci-fi about aliens invading MoroccoThe 20 best films of 2025, rankedWhy Kahlil Joseph’s debut feature film is a must-seeJay Kelly is Noah Baumbach’s surreal, star-studded take on fameWatch: Owen Cooper on Adolescence, Jake Gyllenhaal and Wuthering HeightsOwen Cooper: Adolescent extremesIt Was Just An Accident: A banned filmmaker’s most dangerous work yet