Documentary

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Playing with the forms and tropes of various cinema genres, the filmmaker sets off on a quest to find a legendary lost video collection of 55,000 movies in Sicily.Read More »

FOR THOSE WHO WANTS TO SEE REAL, BEAUTIFULL, NON-ENCAGING MENTAL HEALTH EXPERIENCE

The clinic was founded by Jean Oury, a psychiatrist who previously worked in experimental therapy at Saint-Alban Psychiatric Hospital. The psychiatric practice borrowed the idea of Hermann Simon that it is necessary to look after the establishment and to look after each patient, while returning initiative and responsibility to them by developing situations in which they can work and express their creativity.Read More »

Finally, 50 years after it was original broadcast, the foundational documentary television series “An American Family” has been made available on DVD in legible quality. Routinely cited as the birth of reality television, the series broadcasted the goings on of Santa Barbara’s Loud family to 10 million viewers weekly, creating a massive public forum for a select few private lives.Read More »

A photographer documents his nightly expeditions through Japan’s world of sex for hire.

Filmed across 120 nights in Japan’s brothels and presented in 120 fragments ― divided into 6 chapters and 6 female prostitutes.Read More »

Guy Gilles’ view of Mexico focuses mainly on the dreams of ordinary Mexicans and their ways of expression: fun and festivity.Read More »

An exploration of the lives of 107 mothers in the Odesa prison in Ukraine, where mothers are allowed to serve their sentences with their children until their third birthday.

10 wins, 17 nominations.Read More »

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A FILM ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND ME

“Master” is the name of a 12-story apartment building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro’s neighborhood for nightlife. Over the course of four weeks in 2001, Eduardo Coutinho’s film crew rented one of the 276 apartments and used it as home base to make a film about the building’s residents. We get to know the building manager, who succeeded in turning the troubled residence into a family complex within just a few years. Using interviews and a few stolen moments in the corridors of the building, Coutinho explores this world. Most of the building’s residents come from the lower middle class and are just getting by, but that’s just about the only thing they have in common – so many people, so many stories, sometimes told in a self-confident tone, sometimes with averted eyes. The fact that a film crew is interested in their stories puzzles some of them. Hope, fear, dreams, memories, love and loneliness all appear from behind the doors of this average apartment building.Read More »

This is a true story of a woman as old as a century. Every day for 17 years, at the same time, at the same station, an elderly lady with a hump and a cart boards the same train. She leaves the train at a far away station and starts her journey through the woods. Something unusually mysterious is depicted in her image. As we follow this old woman through the icy streets, her story and that of Russia’s unfolds. Striking archival materials from 20th century Russia are accompanied by simple, yet lyrical images of contemporary Russia and our heroine as she goes about her day. And as her poignant routine is revealed, a hundred years of Russian history unfolds through her personal retelling.Read More »

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Independent Welsh filmmaker Karl Francis uses amateur and professional actors to explore the community impact of the 1975 closure of the Ogilvie Colliery in the Rhymney Valley, a few miles from his family home. Critical of the National Coal Board and the trade unions, the film focuses on the fractious interactions between politicians and union leaders, teasing out the forces that are attempting to divide the community.Read More »