Simone Bitton – Mur AKA Wall (2004)
In the summer of 2002, Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon ordered the construction of a massive security wall, which would clearly define the border between Israel and Palestine and prevent...
View ArticlePietra Brettkelly – Yellow is Forbidden (2018)
A glimpse into a world of luxury and wealth, where global power dynamics, art and commerce meet. Guo Pei dresses China’s new elite but dreams of conquering Paris, the capital of haute couture. 1.66GB...
View ArticleSergei Dvortsevoy – V temnote AKA In the Dark (2004)
This excellent low-key documentary records the daily life of an elderly blind man in Russia. He spends his days at home in a tiny flat making bags out of string. His only companion is a cat, which...
View ArticleJim Adamson – Sex and Fame: The Mary Millington Story (1996)
Film charting the meteoric rise and equally swift decline of Mary Millington, the girl-next-door who became one of the most famous porn stars of the 1970s. 417MB | 53m 12s | 624×352 | avi...
View ArticleJean-Paul Fargier & Jean-Daniel Pollet – Jour après jour AKA Day After Day...
The film is based on the pictures Jean-Daniel Pollet took before dying for an entire year, day by day. The film recounts the filmmaker’s life as he saw it through his camera lens. Extremely...
View ArticleAlain Fleischer – Morceaux de conversations avec Jean-Luc Godard AKA...
In his meetings with various different people, Jean-Luc Godard develops his thinking about history, politics, the cinema, images and time, and this will lead to his exhibition as an artist at the...
View ArticleKatrin Seybold – Die Widerständigen. Zeugen der Weißen Rose AKA The White...
The White Rose – the first comprehensive documentary of Munich ‘s resistance work Students in the war years 1942 and 1943: companions, friends and siblings tell, as they supported leaflets, as they...
View ArticleRobert Clem – How They Got Over (2018)
How African Americans created the upbeat musical form that started out as gospel quartet music and became rock and roll. 2.29GB | 1h 26mn | 1280×720 | mkv...
View ArticleJean Rouch – Mammy Water (1953)
“Mammy Water” is mother sea, source of food. Jean Rouch filmed this short documentary in the Gulf of Guinea, in Ghana, where is held a colorful festival, the Chama, in which the participants offer...
View ArticleJohan van der Keuken – Amsterdam Global Village (1996)
This four hour documentary looks for the exotic in the everyday life observed in just one city, the filmmaker’s own Amsterdam. 3.97GB | 3h 50mn | 714×480 | mkv...
View ArticleMarco Bellocchio – Marx può aspettare AKA Marx Can Wait (2021)
“Marx can wait” was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated days of 1968. This documentary is dedicated to his...
View ArticleJeff Kaufman – Nasrin (2020)
Nasrin is an immersive portrait of one of the courageous human rights activists and political prisoner, Nasrin Sotoudeh, and of Iran’s remarkably resilient women’s rights movement. Featuring acclaimed...
View ArticleBing Wang – Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Part 2: Remnants (2003) (DVD)
Wang Bing’s West of the Tracks is a nine hour, three part documentary about the decline of Chinese state-run heavy industry. In 1999 Wang Bing, not long graduated from Beijing’s Film Academy, arrived...
View ArticleJennifer Baichwal – Act of God (2009)
Is being hit by lightning a random natural occurrence or a predestined event? Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin director Jennifer Baichwal’s...
View ArticleDidier Rouget & Agnès Varda – Varda by Agnès (2019)
An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s next film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls “cine-writing,”...
View ArticleCamille Billops & James Hatch – Finding Christa (1991)
This startlingly personal documentary presents a moving yet unsentimental view of motherhood and adoption. It explores the feelings surrounding the reunion of a young woman with her birth mother...
View ArticleAbbas Kiarostami – Hamshahri AKA Fellow Citizen (1983)
Quote:Kiarostami’s fascination with both Tehrani car culture and the uses of power in post-revolutionary society come together in this documentary about a traffic officer assigned to enforce driving...
View ArticleMichael Epstein & Thomas Lennon – American Experience: The Battle Over...
Citizen Kane was an American saga about a giant who brings ruin to all, including himself. As fate would have it, it is through this film that both Orson Wells and William Randolph Hearst are...
View ArticleAbbas Kiarostami – Bozorgdasht-e mo’Allem AKA Tribute to the Teachers (1977)
SYNOPSIS:An assignment from the Ministry of Education, this documentary from the last years of the Pahlavi dynasty includes interviews with government officials who predictably praise teaching as a...
View ArticleSam Green – Annea Lockwood / A Film About Listening (2021)
Quote:Sam Green’s intimate portrait of pioneering experimental composer and musician Annea Lockwood gives a glimpse into the enthralling world of sound that she has been creating and exploring for...
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