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Darezhan Omirbayev – Darezhan Omirbayev: Educational Films (2015)
Educational film by Darezhan Omirbayev for film schools students. AUTOGRAPHSA series of educational films, “Autographs” is a textbook for students of cinema department, which is dedicated to the works...
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Tomasz Dominik, Piotr Rozbicki – Warszawa 88-89 AKA Warsaw 88-89 (1989)
Quote:In the film Warsaw 88-89 we observe the city on the eve of the coming changes, captured on VHS tape. Tomasz Dominik and Piotr Rozbicki capture interesting, distinctive details – an unusual...
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Cristina Hanes & Isabella Rinaldi & Arya Rothe – A Rifle and a Bag (2020)
After years of fighting in the Naxalite guerrilla for the rights of the Indian tribes, Somi and her husband, handed over their rifles and surrendered in front of the State. They are now sharing a...
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Lino Del Fra & Cecilia Mangini & Lino Miccichè – All’armi siam fascisti! AKA...
Quote:A compelling documentary that analyzes the origins and the events that characterized the phenomenon of fascism in Italy. The film offers a record of historical, political and social events, from...
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Frederick Wiseman – National Gallery (2014)
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman goes behind the scenes at the National Gallery in a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th...
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Jonas Mekas – Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
— Jonas Mekas wrote:“The film consists of three parts. The first part is made up of footage I shot with my first Bolex, during my first years in America, mostly from 1950-1953. It shows me and my...
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Silvestro Montanaro – Thomas Sankara: e quel giorno uccisero la felicità (2013)
In this documentary by a veteran Italian journalist Silvestro Montanaro some of the conspirators behind Sankara’s death are interviewed. The rise and fall of The Burkinabé Revolution is placed in the...
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Jo Serfaty – Um Filme de Verão AKA Sun Inside (2019)
Karol, Junior, Ronaldo and Caio are in their last month of school at a public institution in Rio de Janeiro. Immersed in the tangled wires covering the slum’s sky and the sudden blackouts, these four...
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Frederick Wiseman – Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)
A look within the walls of the New York Public Library. Quote:The director’s latest magisterial study of a public institution is a tribute to the power of education and the importance of community,...
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Bill Reid – Occupation (1970)
In this documentary, striking political science students concerned with the democratization of their university occupy the offices of the Political Science Department at McGill University. The issue:...
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Hartmut Bitomsky – Playback (1995)
Looks like an awesome Bitomsky film, deals with images on film shot between 1910-1920.Playback is a documentary film about a workshop that took place at the Nederland Fimmuseum in Amsterdam in 1995,...
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Rebecca Baron – How Little We Know of Our Neighbours (2005)
Quote:How Little We Know of Our Neighbours is an experimental documentary about Britain’s Mass Observation Movement and its relationship to contemporary issues regarding surveillance, public...
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Edgar Reitz – Die Nacht der Regisseure (1995)
A series of interviews with living filmmakers about German film history.`Night of the filmmakers’ (1994, 52 mins., English commentary) directed by Edgar Reitz, was produced for BFI TV by Edgar Reitz...
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Lech Kowalski – East of Paradise (2005)
At the beginning of the Second World War, Maria Werla, the director’s mother, was forced to leave Poland and was taken to a concentration camp in Northern Russia. Thousands of Poles faced the same...
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YES New York – The Last Rally (1976)
The Last Rally, a 30-minute tape by YES New York, a group composed of Shridhar Bapat, Mark Brownstone, Karen Edwards, and Joe Loguidice, documents the post-Vietnam war demonstration held in Central...
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Edgar Reitz – Geschichten aus den Hunsrückdörfern (1981)
The documentary film “Tales from the Hunsrück Villages” was produced in the autumn of 1980, at a time when Edgar Reitz and Peter Steinbach were working on the preparations for HEIMAT. The film...
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Takashi Homma – Kiwamete Yoi Fukei AKA Extremely Beautiful Landscapes (2004)
In the late 1960s, photographer Takuma Nakahira published the legendary photography magazine Provoke with Daido Moriyama. With this edgy writings and photographs, Nakahira rejected preexisting...
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Lefteris Xanthopoulos – O Giorgos apo ta Sotirianika (1978)
‘Giorgos from Sotirianika’ in contrary with ‘Greek Community of Heidelberg’, which deals with the immigration community of a city, focuses on a particular person that is the typical success story of a...
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Aleksandr Sokurov – Dolce… (2000)
Quote:Dolce opens to a clinical biographical overview of writer and poet Toshio Shimao Dolce(1917-1986) as the narrator (Aleksandr Sokurov) thumbs through a family photo album, describing Shimao’s...
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Aleksandr Sokurov – Moskovskaya elegiya aka Moscow Elegy (1987)
Quote:Originally produced to mark the 50th birthday of Andrei Tarkovsky (Solaris, Stalker), Moscow Elegy is a stunning documentary and subjective portrait of the legendary filmmaker by Alexander...
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