A documentary about the people who visit a cemetery, and a testament to the saying, life is short, art is long. Père-Lachaise – one of the world’s most famous and beautiful cemeteries – is the final resting-place of a gifted group of artists from all eras and corners of the world. Some – such as Piaf, Proust, Jim Morrison and Chopin – are worshiped to this day. Others have fallen into oblivion, or are visited occasionally by a single admirer.Read More »
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The film depicts the daily lives of people whose job is to chase away cormorants that eat fish from a fish farm near Donji Miholjac, Croatia. Cormorants are protected by law and their nesting grounds are located across the border, in Hungary, which gives the protagonists’ efforts a Sisyphean, absurdist feel.Read More »
Synopsis: Director Luc Moullet revisits sites in the southern French Alps where he set several films. At elevations of 2000-6000 feet, Moullet shows how the terrain interacted with the process of producing, directing and acting in these films.Read More »
Director Rithy Panh turns his attention from Cambodia’s deadly past (last year’s S21: Khmer Rouge Killing Machine) to its uncertain present in this portrait of the legendary temples of Angkor and of the people paradoxically creating a future out of its ruins. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Angkor’s spectacular complexes provide a haunted stage for the laborers, peddlers, and holy men who exist within them. Workers piece together shards of statues and give voice to the stories carved upon the stones (if they can agree on what each image means, that is). Monks meditate in bullet-marked temples and narrate the histories of their gods. A farmer tours the murals with his fighting cock, revisiting the glories of old kings. For this “lost” city’s inhabitants, Angkor’s tales are never finished, its sculptures never silent. Intermingling their stories as subtly as a whisper, Panh creates a document of modern Cambodia, his camera carving out new legends with each story told.Read More »
A French two-part documentary about the history of surrealism from the Arte channel.
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La Révolution surréaliste (English: The Surrealist Revolution) was a publication by the Surrealists in Paris. Twelve issues were published between 1924 and 1929.
Shortly after releasing the first Surrealist Manifesto, André Breton published the inaugural issue of La Révolution surréaliste on December 1, 1924.Read More »
This 1998 documentary was the first feature by documentary filmmaker Sérgio Tréfaut, later to direct Fleurette, Lisboetas and Viagem a Portugal, and is a look at the Portuguese Revolution of 1974 and its follow-up period as seen by some the filmmakers and photographer that accompanied it in real time.
The film brings together period footage from many different sources and new interviews. Glauber Rocha, Robert Kramer, Thomas Harlan or Sebastião Salgado are some of those interviewed or that have contributed footage to the project.Read More »
Produced by Basement Films, this is the film that BBC refused to air.
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is a forensic investigation into Israel’s genocide of Gaza’s healthcare system and society with full US and European backed support.
The film shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you.
After the film’s release, the Director of Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital and family were killed on an Israeli air strike on their home in the latest spate of genocidal attacks on Palestinians on July 2, 2025.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/03/gaza-doctors-under-attack-review-channel-4-crucial-film-stuff-of-nightmaresRead More »
The bizarre history of Filipino B-films, as told through filmmaker Andrew Leavold’s personal quest to find the truth behind its midget James Bond superstar Weng Weng.Read More »
