Documentary

Plot: The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life-affirming reflection on memory, time and what’s…Read More »

Three young people leave the psychiatric hospital to lead a “normal life” while working in the factory. They confide in their future prospects. In 1968, alarmed by the catastrophic state of public psychiatry in Italy, the communist municipality of Parma entrusted Mario Tommasini, a former gas worker, with the management of the mental health sector and its reorganization in a revolutionary fashion. This political initiative, inspired by Franco Basaglia, critic of the asylum institution and the origin of Psychiatry outside the walls, marked the beginning of a vast undertaking of social integration of patients.Read More »

Focuses on 13-year-old Mohammed Hejazi, a second-grade dropout the filmmaker encountered at the Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian children often gather to throw stones.Read More »

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Ingmar Bergman had discovered the bleak, windswept Fårö while scouting locations for Through a Glass Darkly in 1960. Nearly a decade later—and after shooting a number of arresting dramas there and making the island his primary residence—the director set out to pay tribute to its inhabitants. In Fårö Document, shot on handheld 16 mm by Sven Nykvist, Bergman interviews a variety of locals, in the process laying bare the generational divide between young residents eager to leave the island and older people more deeply rooted in bucolic tradition. The film revealed Bergman to be a sensitive and masterly documentarian.Read More »

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Lao Tang Tou was born in Heilongjiang Province in 1930. His father, Tang Shirong, had saved the life of Zhao Shangzhi of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces during the period of the Puppet Manchukuo, so he was very prestigious in the village. There are five brothers in the old Tang family, according to the family tree of “benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith” in the order of elders and children, he walks five, his real name is Tang Xixin.Read More »

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My Girlfriend’s Wedding (1969). In many respects, the best “critique” of David Holzman’s Diary that I know is McBride’s 63-minute follow-up to it. Initially conceived as an accompanying short, the film wound up with a running time of only ten minutes shorter, and the distributor of both films promptly went bankrupt, so this DVD may represent the first semi-permanent pairing of the two films. It’s taken a long time, but I think it’s been worth the wait.Read More »

Diane Wellington disappeared in South Dakota in 1938 at the age of 15. She has just be found.Read More »

A cute documentary will tell you why Russia has become the leader in the number of cats per capita in the world

The film “Empire of Cats” tells about the most famous cats of Russia. According to research by VTsIOM, more than half of Russians have a cat—Russia topped the ranking of countries in terms of the number of cats per capita. In addition, cats work in many museums in the country, including the Hermitage. And one of the most famous cats is rightfully considered the cat Sonya from Novosibirsk, because the world’s largest brands cooperate with her.Read More »

Director Mohanad Yaqubi draws on recently-discovered and archival found footage to explore the tumultuous history of Palestine and Palestinian filmmaking in this timely and insightful documentary.Read More »