Zelimir Zilnik – Zurnal o omladini na selu zimi (1967)
Zurnal o omladini na selu zimi (1967) Story follows a weekend in a village where young adults after a hard working week let there steam off in taverns eating, drinking, singing, breaking glasses and...
View ArticleDusan Hanák – Papierove hlavy AKA Paper Heads (1996)
Papierove hlavy (1996) Quote:This film is an emotional collage about violations of human rights and about the relation between the power of a totalitarian system and its citizens. After the Second...
View ArticleDick Christian – The Rejected (1961)
The Rejected (1961) Introduced by KQED’s General Manager James Day, The Rejected was the first ever U.S. televised documentary about homosexuality, broadcast on September 11th 1961. Originally titled...
View ArticleOtar Iosseliani – Dzveli qartuli simgera AKA Georgian Ancient Songs (1969)
Dzveli qartuli simgera (1969) ძველი ქართული სიმღერაPLOT: Under the premise of documenting for the sake of preservation the various forms of Georgian religious chanting, a distinct kind of sonorous...
View ArticleIan Thuillier – Ghost Blues: The Story of Rory Gallagher (2010)
Ghost Blues The Story of Rory Gallagher (2010) Directed by Ian Thuillier this film is a portrait of the late lamented musician Rory Gallagher, it investigates the timeless qualities of the...
View ArticleManfred Vosz – Stadtführer Für Bonn Und Umgebung AKA Guidebook to Bonn and...
Stadtführer Für Bonn Und Umgebung (1969) Quote:Inspired by Thorndike’s similar East German films,this is a carefully researched, professionally executedindictment of the West German government...
View ArticleKarima Saïdi – Dans La Maison AKA A Way Home (2020)
Dans La Maison (2020) SynopsisFilmmaker Karima Saïdi’s mother has Alzheimer’s. Now, they turn their thoughts back in time together, for one last time. A poetic portrait of a complex mother-daughter...
View ArticleHelga Reidemeister – Von wegen Schicksal AKA Is This Fate? (1979)
Von wegen Schicksal (1979) PLOT: Irene Rakowitz, aged 48, is a divorced mother of four, who lives with her two youngest children in West Berlin’s Märkisches Viertel public housing district, surviving...
View ArticlePeter B. Hutton – Lodz Symphony (1993)
Lodz Symphony (1993) A portrait of Łódź, Poland that exists in a time warp of sad memory. Hutton creates an empty world evoking the 19th century industrial atmosphere that is populated with the ghosts...
View ArticleYashaswini Raghunandan – That Cloud Never Left (2019)
That Cloud Never Left (2019) Quote:Director Yashaswini Raghunandan has a perceptive sense of humour. Her film That Cloud Never Left opens with a title card that reads, “This is a work of fiction. Only...
View ArticleMarina Goldovskaya – A Bitter Taste of Freedom (2011)
A Bitter Taste of Freedom (2011) Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya was killed in Moscow in October, 2006. In 2004, she had written: “Society has shown limitless apathy…...
View ArticleHisaya Iwasa – Oro AKA Olo: The Boy from Tibet (2012)
Olo The Boy from Tibet (2012) A 6-year-old Tibetan boy leaves his family and flees to a refugee camp in northern India. OLO,the.Boy.from.Tibet.2012.1080p.WEB-DL.x264.AAC-Xeon921.mkv General Container:...
View ArticleDustin Guy Defa – Family Nightmare (2011)
Family Nightmare (2011) A dizzy trip through the mid-1990s with a dysfunctional American family. Reliving a distracted child’s birthday party, an emotionless wedding, a Halloween in a garage and a...
View ArticleRoberto Guerra & Eila Hershon – Langlois (1970)
Langlois (1970) Quote:Henri Langlois, the legendary cofounder of the Cinémathèque Française, changed the course of cinema history with his passionate advocacy for film culture, helping incubate the...
View ArticleMary Helena Clark & Mike Gibisser – A Common Sequence (2023)
A Common Sequence (2023) Explores tradition, colonialism, property, faith, and science, seen through labor practices that connect an endangered salamander, mass-produced apples, and the evolving...
View ArticleJames Ritchie – Blue Pullman (1960)
Blue Pullman (1960) Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to London on new British Railways...
View ArticleMaureen Fazendeiro – Motu Maeva (2014)
Motu Maeva (2014) A journey through the memories of Sonja André, an adventurer from the 20th century who lives in a shelter she built herself on the island of Motu Maeva. Without following a specific...
View ArticleJohn Shearman – Train Time (1952)
Train Time (1952) A short documentary about the transportation of goods and livestock by train around the UK. Train.Time.1952.576p.BluRay.x264-Butterfly.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 29 min...
View ArticleAndreas Voigt – Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung (1994)
Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung (1994) This film follows some extremely right-wing teenagers in Leipzig, Germany, over a period of one year (1992/1993). It portrays what they think about belief, love and hope...
View ArticleLuke Fowler – To the Editor of Amateur Photographer (2014)
To the Editor of Amateur Photographer (2014) Quote:Luke Fowler and Mark Fell’s new film revolves around the testimonies and collected documents linked to the complex and often contested history of...
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