MUMBAI: The Kansas International Film Festival (KIFF), began Friday at the Glenwood Arts theater in Overland Park.

The festival has always been strongest in its documentary division (one guy with a camera can make a great documentary; fictional films require a lot more money and labor), but this year nonfiction filmmakers have outdone themselves.

Most of the documentaries screening at KIFF have been in the works for several years, meaning they were begun during the Bush administration. These documentaries come in all shapes and colors. Some are overtly irate.

The opening-night film, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story was admired by all. Revered and despised in equal measure, Moore has built a career on holding some of America’s most cherished values the automobile, the health care system, gun ownership, post-9/11 patriotism up to his satirical light.