On November 20, 1979 at 5:30 AM, hundreds of armed men take over the Grand Mosque of Mecca, transforming the holiest shrine of Islam into a fortress and a trap for almost 100.000 pilgrims inside. This is the beginning of the SIEGE OF MECCA.Read More »
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On April 27, 1937, in the midst of a grueling and increasingly brutal Spanish Civil War, the
ancient Basque town of Guernica was subjected to an extended duration bombardment
campaign by German forces in an unrelenting aerial campaign designed to demoralize the
collective psyche of the Basque nation and to also show camaraderie (and military
alliance) with the nationalists under Generalissimo Francisco Franco.Read More »
John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather, Part Two, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Deer Hunter – each was nominated for Best Picture. Yet today most people don’t even know his name. I KNEW IT WAS YOU is a fresh tour through movies that defined a generation.Read More »
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“I think my film represents above all the proof to those who want to understand and accept it, that poetry can’t be filmed, that it is useless to try” – João César MonteiroRead More »
Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MAUS is a landmark in reckoning with the Holocaust and breakthrough in serious comic art — but his full achievements are more remarkable and eclectic. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC 2024, ART SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE provides intimate access to the man and mind who revolutionized the art form of comics. Spiegelman proves an eloquent guide through his provocative work, along with contemporaries and younger cartoonists inspired by Spiegelman’s unflinching confrontation of personally traumatic themes.Read More »
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A documentary Jerry Lewis’ unreleased Holocaust film The Day the Clown Cried, and features never-before-seen footage of the legendary lost film.Read More »
Jean Rouch’s Nigerien collaborators travel to France to perform a reverse ethnography of late-1960’s Parisian life.
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By 1969, Jean Rouch had spent more than two decades documenting West Africa as an ethnographer, and in 1961 had co-directed Chronicle of a Summer, an anthropological investigation of Parisian life. In Little by Little, Rouch’s Nigerien collaborators Damoure Zika and Lam Ibrahim travel to Paris and end up performing a reverse ethnography of French culture.Read More »
A Horror mockumentary staring J-idol group, Momoiro Clover. The girls visit a haunted school for a TV special. Little do they know their secret wishes are then granted with soul snatching consequences.Read More »
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Fourteen years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the occupied West Bank.Read More »