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Albert Maysles, Lynn True, David Usui, Nelson Walker III, Benjamin Wu – In...

Quote:The culmination of Albert Maysles’ lifelong passion for capturing the stories of train passengers, and styled in the tradition of Direct Cinema, In Transit unfolds as a series of interconnected...

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Jean-Daniel Pollet – Trois jours en Grèce [+ Extras] (1991)

Quote:From Provence to Greece, a very personal travel diary shot while Jean-Daniel Pollet accepts an invitation to participate in a conference. Leaving is always a fantastic endeavor and the filmmaker...

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Pitt Koch – Glühendes Eiland Kreta aka The Sun-Baked Island of Crete (1958)

The traditional and modest life in deep rural Crete. A film on the verge of traditional documentary film and an attempt to find a new direction in terms of what documentary film could be. An envious...

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Álex de la Iglesia – Messi (2014)

His teachers, coaches, childhood friends and Barça teammates, together with journalists, writers and prominent figures from the history of football, come together in a restaurant to analyze and pick...

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Klaus Wildenhahn – John Cage (1966)

This rare documentary, simply called “John Cage”, was made in 1966 for the German TV station NDR and is one of the earliest films devoted entirely to the work of Cage and his collaborators. It was...

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – The Gardener (2012) (HD)

The Gardener is a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about a religion (Baha’i faith) that they don’t...

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Martin Scorsese – No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)

IMDB:Portrait of an artist as a young man. Roughly chronological, using archival footage intercut with recent interviews, a story takes shape of Bob Dylan’s (b. 1941) coming of age from 1961 to 1966...

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Djibril Diop Mambéty – Contras’ City (1968)

Publisher’s description:The satirical documentary Contras’ City (which stands for Contrast City) was shot on 16mm in 1968. It is one of the earliest African comic movie and an urban planning analysis...

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Tom McGough – Alien Autopsy: (Fact or Fiction?) (1995)

FOX Network television special investigating The Alien Autopsy (1995) footage that was allegedly filmed by the United States military after the legendary UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947....

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Martha Coolidge – Not a Pretty Picture (1976)

Mixing narrative and documentary filming in a unique way the story is autobiographical and is about a date rape dissecting the characters and circumstances around it. By following the effects of the...

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Aco Petrovski – Tenda AKA Shelter (1955)

Quote:The film describes the life of the last Macedonian nomadic ethnic group, so called Karakachani. In 18th century, their ancestors, ants of the Traco-Illyrian, leaded by Papucoroshi, as a result...

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Giorgio Verdelli – Ezio Bosso: Le cose che restano (2021)

Ezio Bosso reveals his real self and takes us into his world and his imagination, as if were a diary. 3.39GB | 1h 45mn | 1920×1080 | mkv...

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Robertas Verba – J. Mekas (1980)

La Cinémathèque française wrote:In 1977, accompanied by his wife and daughter, Jonas Mekas returned to Lithuania for the second time since he went into exile in 1944. Documentary filmmaker Robertas...

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Jeffrey Perkins – George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus (2018)

In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus following a sensationalized tour of “concerts” in...

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Irina Golubeva – Andrey Tarkovsky – Trudno byt bogom AKA It’s hard to be God...

Трудно быть богом Quote:Andrei Tarkovsky is the most famous Russian director, who during his lifetime was called a genius. He did not take many pictures, but they all became classics of world cinema....

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Sabine Lubbe Bakker & Niels van Koevorden – Ne me quitte pas (2013)

Marcel and Bob are sitting at a small table in a stone house in the middle of a Belgian forest. Wood crackles in the stove, the wind blows through the trees and the two faithful friends drown their...

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Manuel Mozos & Maria Andresen de Sousa Tavares – Sophia, na Primeira Pessoa...

imbd says:Using the author’s personal estate, current images of places where she lived or were dear to her, and archival images of television and film; using parts of her prose and poetry always with...

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Raimund Ruehl – Salinas (1960)

Spain, salt gathering in a large salt works on the Mediterranean. In this atmosphere, the film makes the impression of an existential allegory in which the workers are damned to an endless, Sisyphean...

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Xiaolian Peng & Louisa Wei – Storm Under the Sun (2007)

Storm Under the Sun is a documentary about one of the “political storms” by Mao Zedong that fell upon the intellectuals of China in the 50’s. Centered around the Hu Feng Case, the documentary traces...

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Alex Crowton & Bobby Dass – This Is Sparklehorse (2022)

This is Sparklehorse is a feature length music documentary. Mark Linkous, a cult and hugely influential figure in the alternative music scene, had a dramatic life that saw him battle with drug and...

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