Documentary

The Adamant is a unique psychiatric care centre, remarkable for its floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental health disorders, offering them care that orients them in time and space, helping them to recover or just keep up their spirits. The team running the centre tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can.

Nicolas Philibert’s verité-style documentary (a style he has perfected over his 50-year career) invites us to board this unique facility and meet the patients and caregivers who bring it to life every day.

Winner- Golden Bear- Berlin International Film Festival 2023Read More »

A rare film from Fred Halsted (known for LA Plays Itself). This encode is based on chef’s upload of the Alpha Blue Archives release.

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Part pseudo-documentary, it switches from group stroking, mutual masturbation, oral sex and a bit of anal intercourse with historic images and art photo set.Read More »

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Today, more than 200.000 men, women and children are locked up in North Korea’s concentration camps. Systematic torture, starvation and murder is what faces the inmates. Few survive many years in the camps, but the population is kept stable by a steady influx of new persons considered to be ‘class enemies’. A small group of people have managed to flee from the camps to a new life in the prosperous South Korea. Some of them gather and decide to make an extraordinary and controversial musical about their experiences in the Yodok concentration camp. Despite death treats and many obstacles the musical becomes a tour de force for this ensemble of refugees and for them a possibility opens to talk about their experiences and inspire others to protest the existence of the camps.Read More »

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Erwin Romulo, the best friend of the late film critic Alexis Tioseco, recalls the events after the critic and his girlfriend Nika Bohinc’s murder during a burglary in their home in Quezon City. Lav Diaz makes use of one long take to allow Romulo an uninterrupted narration of the events.Read More »

The Confederate States of America, through the eyes of a faux documentary, takes a look at an America where the South won the Civil War. Supposedly produced by a British broadcasting company, the feature film is presented as a production being shown, controversially, for the first time on television in the States. Through the use of other fabricated movie segments, old government information films, television commercials, news breaks, along with actual stock footage from our own history, a provocative and humorous story is told of a country which, in many ways, frighteningly follows a parallel with our own.

Great social satire, distributed by Spike Lee, believe it or not. Was an audience favourite at Sundance and the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival.Read More »

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How the US government created a myth that took over the world. ET visitors… crashed UFOs… back-engineered alien technology… the government cover-up of a secret that would change the world as we know it… These are the core elements of the modern UFO mythology, a story that has captivated farmers, princes and generals for generations, and shows no sign of loosening its grip on the popular imagination. But what if, instead of covering up the UFO story, elements in the US military had actively encouraged it as part of their Cold War counterintelligence arsenal – manufacturing the myth of the UFO as a powerful weapon of mass deception and the perfect cover for all manner of clandestine technologies and operations. Now, for the first time, some of those whose actions have directly shaped the UFO mythology, and some of their victims, tell their stories, revealing a surreal disturbing and sometimes tragic sequence of events that is part Manchurian Candidate and part Close Encounters …Read More »

Jean-Luc Godard’s first film. After returning to Switzerland, Godard went to work as a manual worker at a dam building site, using the money he earned to buy a camera, and making a short documentary about the building of the Grand Dixence Dam.
(Also known as Operation ”Concrete”.)Read More »

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This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbachev sees a successful military coup taking place in the USSR. Western actions against brutal crack-downs on civilians involved increases tension between the sides, finally resulting in nuclear war.Read More »

Daughters of Dolma takes you on a journey revealing a distinctively female experience of Tibetan Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley. This feature-length documentary will bring to the screen not just Buddhist spirituality and qualities like compassion and kindness, but Tibetan Buddhist nuns as full individuals beyond their monastic vows and religious practices. Daughters of Dolma aims to reveal how gender and modernity are moulding contemporary spiritual practices in Nepal…Read More »