Documentary

  • Lisa Malloy & J.P. Sniadecki – A Shape of Things to Come (2020)

    USA2011-2020AdventureDocumentaryJ.P. SniadeckiLisa Malloy

    A sensory and cinematic work from the Sonoran Desert in the southern US, where a man lives in a lonely pact with a brutal nature and in the shadow of the apocalypse.Read More »

  • Vera Krichevskaya – F@ck This Job aka Tango with Putin (2021)

    2021-2030DocumentaryUnited KingdomVera Krichevskaya

    Synopsis
    In Putin’s Russia, former music radio producer Natasha Sindeeva dreams of becoming famous and decides to build her own TV station to focus on pop culture. Natasha’s journey begins with building the station, Dozhd, and she goes on to recruit an open-minded team of outcasts who find themselves reporting on some of the biggest and most controversial stories of the day while trying to protect independent journalism in their country.Read More »

  • Sébastien Lifshitz – Petite fille (2020)

    2011-2020DocumentaryFranceSébastien Lifshitz

    The touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still invested in a biological boy-girl system of thought.Read More »

  • Various – Cathedrals of Culture (2014)

    2011-2020ArchitectureArthouseDocumentaryVarious

    “Wim Wenders was bitten by the 3D bug when he made his 2011 dance docu, “Pina,” and he expands the possibilities of the format still further with “Cathedrals of Culture.” Giving all new meaning to the expression “if these walls could talk,” this conceptual six-part omnibus invites half a dozen international helmers to imagine the personalities of various cultural institutions, lending voices to their unique designs while allowing cameras to explore the buildings’ unique architectural features in all their multidimensional glory. Such an overlong and only intermittently absorbing project wouldn’t suffer in the slightest if broken up across several nights for non-3D arts TV, where the otherwise taxing presentation will likely find its broadest audience.Read More »

  • Férid Boughedir – Caméra d’Afrique AKA Twenty Years of African Cinema (1983)

    1981-1990ArthouseDocumentaryFérid BoughedirTunisia

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    After several decades of colonial cinema using Africa as an exotic setting – often denying humanity and dignity to its people – and 70 years after the invention of the cinema, freshly independent Africans take hold at long last of that movie-camera which had been forbidden to them for so long. Despite a total lack of means and infrastructures, and filming against all odds, using by chance any African or foreign support, they try to show African reality in its variegated forms, as it is seen at last through African eyes. Using large extracts from the main films, interventions of filmakers, and rare vintage footage CAMERA D’AFRIQUE recalls the early 20 years of those new “author films”, created in Sub-Saharan Africa, which bear witness to an amazing thirst for showing and expressing themselves, never extinguished to this day.Read More »

  • Nicole Vögele – Closing Time (2018)

    Nicole Vögele2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalGermany

    Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city’s sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. Until one morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo takes a different exit on the highway…

    CLOSING TIME is a cinematographic meditation on in-between moments – a kaleidoscopic journey relying on colours, sensations and the materials of life. An attempt at capturing time, an exercise in just seeing.Read More »

  • Peter Nestler – Die Römerstraße im Aostatal AKA The Roman Street in the Aosta Valley (1998)

    Documentary1991-2000GermanyPeter Nestler

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    Today, the «Römerstrasse» in Italy’s Aosta valley, is a significant traffic artery in the center of modern Europe. Nestler’s journey explores the moving history of the Aosta valley, which passed through many hands – from the Roman Empire to Burgundian and Frankish kingdoms – until it was acquired by Italy in the 11th century. The now busy motorway, which runs from the Po Valley to the Great and Little St. Bernhard passes, is revealed through the timeless eyes of a historian. At the same time, the documentary sheds light on cultural traditions and contemporary life in the region.Read More »

  • Satyajit Ray – Sukumar Ray (1987)

    1981-1990AsianDocumentaryIndiaSatyajit Ray

    Synopsis
    In 1987, Satyajit Ray made a documentary on a legend of Bengali Literature – Sukumar Ray – incidentally also the father of the filmmaker. Sukumar ray was an extraordinary individual. He was a gifted artist, photographer, activist and a person who gathered the cream of intellectuals in renaissance bengal around him. Yet he is remembered as the greatest humourist Bengal has ever produced, equalling great literateurs like Lewis Carrol and Edward Lear. The documentary tries to give us a glimpse into the mind of this genius and capture for its audience the wonderful poetry and compositions of Sukumar Ray.Read More »

  • Michael Haneke – Michael Haneke interview (2002)

    Michael Haneke2001-2010AustriaDocumentary

    here is a rip of the extra on the kino dvd. a 20 minute interview with haneke with serge toubianaRead More »

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