Documentary

Set in a pawnshop the documentary by award-winning filmmaker Rosie Dransfeld features the unlikely friendship between a cynic pawnbroker and a psychopath.Read More »

“A provocative and ironic-pamfletteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-‘Hamlet’ (2001). Both a media event and a form of political action Schlingensief let ex-neo-Nazis play themselves. His provocation in so-called Nazi-free Switzerland was not appreciated and when he added fuel to the flames by calling for the local political party SVP to be banned, his media offensive made front-page news far beyond Switzerland.”Read More »

Fight Club caused a literary movement among a generation of readers. His stories have incited fan frenzies and made people pass out. Now he’s the star of his very own documentary.

Summary
Postcards From The Future: The Chuck Palahniuk Documentary takes a look at author Chuck Palahniuk’s landmark year of 2003. With back to back books and subsequent tours hitting the public, Chuck’s year was filled with success, controversy, and even phenomena. But what many fans don’t know is that this entire year kicked off with a mysterious conference held on his work in a small town in Pennsylvania.Read More »

The camera shows views of the Victorian city of Liverpool while residents deliver comments off-camera what they feel about their relocation to large housing estates while the old inner city buildings are being pulled down. Even if the living conditions were not great the sense of community and feeling at home has been lost after moving to the new flats.

This is the first film by British documentarian Nick Broomfield.Read More »

Racist, patriotic, and imperialistic, the subjects of Broomfield’s second film – in which citizens from across the class spectrum are asked for their views about being British and Britain in general – manage to hang themselves, without the need of any commentary, with their own arrogant, complacent views.Read More »

Diallo sets out with his camera in search of the birth of filmmaking in Guinea. Charming and determined, he traces his country’s film heritage and history and reveals the importance of film archives.Read More »

Synopsis:
Janine Bazin and André Labarthe approached Chantal Akerman about making a film for the series; eagerly, Akerman proposed a number of filmmakers—but all had already been done. So she suggested…“How about me?” Akerman creates a fascinating self-portrait that takes us through her career, aided by critics Emmanuel Burdeau and Jean Narboni and filmmaker Luc Moullet.Read More »

Nick Broomfield documents the rent strike in Kirkby New Town in 1973, when 3000 residents protested against the Housing Finance Bill.

Broomfield’s graduation project from the National Film and Television School, the film is about the rent strike in Kirkby New Town in Liverpool in 1973, when 3000 residents protested against the Housing Finance Bill. It shows the violent clashes between residents and the police and the social conditions experienced by residents, including appalling housing and job prospects.

Includes short introduction by Broomfield from the DVDRead More »

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This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.Read More »