Documentary

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Shot during the cane workers’ strikes in 1975, this first authentically West Indian film bluntly depicts Guadeloupe as it was, thirty years after departmentalization.Read More »

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A documentary that follows Mc Linn Da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo. Her electrifying performances (with plenty of nudity) brazenly take on Brazil’s hetero-normative machismo.Read More »

As an experiment, Mehran Tamadon asks exiled Iranians to interrogate him as if they were an agent of the Islamic Republic. A renowned actor with first-hand knowledge of such mistreatment takes up the challenge.Read More »

An American director, hired by German television to make a film about 9/11, re-stages a controversial photograph taken along the Brooklyn waterfront soon after the collapse of the World Trade Center.Read More »

This is a documentary upon which The Magdalene Sisters by Peter Mullan was made. It shows testimonies of Martha Cooney, Christina Mulcahy and the others. Basically, if you have seen the movie there is nothing new or different here, except maybe for the experience of seeing and getting a bit closer to real life victims of the asylums. The documentary was made in 1998. for Channel Four and was a part of Testimony films series.

The whole experience of watching comes very closely to the feeling everyone probably had when they read that last asylum was shut down in 1996 at the end of the movie. It just makes it closer to you.Read More »

Captures the band’s electrifying 1964 US debut amid fan frenzy. With rare behind-the-scenes footage, it chronicles their unprecedented rise to global superstardom after performing on The Ed Sullivan Show to over 73 million viewers.Read More »

Visionary cinema historian Mark Cousins (THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY) charts the unknown territory of the imagination of one of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary artists. Granted unprecedented access to hundreds of sketches, drawings, and paintings by Orson Welles—tantalizing, never-before-seen glimpses into the filmmaker’s rich inner life—Cousins sheds new light on the experiences, dreams, desires, and obsessions that fueled his creativity and inspired his masterpieces. Playful, profound, and as daringly iconoclastic as its subject, THE EYES OF ORSON WELLES is a one-of-a-kind work of visual archaeology, a fresh way of looking at a cinematic giant whose singular worldview—fiercely humanist, defiantly antiauthoritarian—resonates now more urgently than ever.Read More »

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This urban odyssey begins with a chance meeting on the streets of Budapest, when the two filmmakers run into Sanyi, a charismatic, unruly 8-year-old who constantly tests boundaries and oscillates between childlike innocence and a sober outlook that belies his age. Over the course of over a decade, the camera captures Sanyi’s growing pains in a cramped, dilapidated apartment with barely functioning parents and a baby sister. Charted by a fiery temperament and an inexplicable attraction to danger, the course of Sanyi’s life seems predetermined as he hurtles toward a dark future. Filmed in the spirit of Cinema Verité, this gripping and gritty doc will have you on the edge of your seat from Sanyi’s first breakneck-speed skateboard ride to his inevitable plummet down the rough roads of adulthood.Read More »

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Born to Film (Cinéastes à Tout Prix)

RousseauWith winning merriment and generous clips, Frédéric Sojcher’s Born to Film (Cinéastes à Tout Prix) explores the oeuvre of three Belgian pioneers of outsider cinema (the U.S. counterpart might be Chris Smith’s American Movie). These dime-store DeMilles practice a cinema that’s home-made and a hundred percent hands-on. The 78-year-old Max Naveaux, for one, even develops all his own films in equipment he himself invented. Hiding behind no fig leaf of intellectual experimentation, Naveaux vigorously mines his beloved war film genre in such unsung and largely unseen features as Hell Patrol and Maquis Contra Gestapo.Read More »