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Paul Joyce – Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders (1990)
The Films of Wim Wenders (1990) This documentary focuses on the person and the films of one of Germany’s premiere post-war filmmakers, Wim Wenders. Wenders is a lifelong fan of American pop culture,...
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Anna Hints – Savvusanna sõsarad AKA Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023)
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023) Quote:“Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna. Cleansing their bodies and baring their souls, they embrace the...
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Pavel Šimák – Do You Know Kafka? (2024)
Do You Know Kafka? (2024) Kafka 101, courtesy of Arte. Kafka scholars investigate Kafka’s life and work with the aid of readings, dramatisations and clips from archive footage and film adaptations. Do...
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Kaouther Ben Hania – Les filles d’Olfa AKA Four Daughters (2023)
Les filles d’Olfa (2023) Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker...
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Pasquale Misuraca – Le ceneri di Pasolini AKA The Ashes of Pasolini (1994)
Le ceneri di Pasolini (1994) Quote:The Ashes of Pasolini is nothing more than a… selfportrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini. It is a documentary film, a collection of material that has been chosen and...
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Agnès Varda – Agnès de ci de là Varda AKA Agnès Varda: From Here to There (2011)
Agnès de ci de là Varda (2011) SynopsisAgnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists, and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene. Review:-Quote:Agnès...
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Penny Lane – The Pain of Others (2018)
The Pain of Others (2018) SynopsisThe Pain of Others is a found footage documentary about Morgellons, a mysterious illness whose sufferers say they have parasites under the skin, long colored fibers...
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Ulises de la Orden – El Juicio AKA The Trial (2023)
El Juicio (2023) Quote:Argentina, 1985, at the trial of the last dictatorship’s military juntas. On the stand, the six judges; on one side, the prosecution, and on the other, the military personnel...
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Peter Greenaway – Four American Composers (1983)
Four American Composers (1983) AMG plotIt makes sense that an offbeat director such as Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero’s Books) would be attracted to a project...
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Avijit Mukul Kishore & Rohan Shivkumar – Nostalgia for the Future (2017)
Nostalgia for the Future (2017) ‘Nostalgia for the Future’ is a film on Indian modernity, the making of the citizen and the architecture of the home. It looks at imaginations of homes across four...
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Franco Piavoli – Emigranti (1963)
Emigranti (1963) Southern emigrants, arrived at the Milan station loaded with suitcases, rush to catch the connections for Germany and Switzerland. Some, lost and tired, abandon themselves in the...
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Inna Sahakyan – Aurora’s Sunrise (2022)
Aurora’s Sunrise (2022) At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Four years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York,...
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Bettina Böhler – Schlingensief – In das Schweigen hineinschreien AKA...
Schlingensief In das Schweigen hineinschreien (2020) Bettina Böhler creates a memorial to the director Christoph Schlingensief on the 10th anniversary of his death, a portrait of the filmmaker’s work...
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Franco Maresco – La mafia non è più quella di una volta AKA The Mafia Is No...
La mafia non è più quella di una volta (2019) In 2017, 25 years after the Capaci and Via D’Amelio massacres, Franco Maresco decided to make a new film. To do so, he finds impetus in one of his recent...
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Sam Green & Bill Siegel – The Weather Underground (2002)
The Weather Underground (2002) Quote:In the late 1960s and early 1970s polarization of American political situation was becoming acute, with the Vietnam War abroad and civil rights at home being the...
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Ingemo Engström & Gerhard Theuring – Fluchtweg nach Marseille AKA Escape...
Fluchtweg nach Marseille (1977) Documentary in two parts that blends dramatized reconstructions, personal reminisces and newsreel footage to tell the story of the flight of German refugees through...
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Axel Danielson & Maximilien Van Aertryck – And the King Said, What a...
And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine (2023) Quote:From the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity’s...
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Thom Andersen – Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) Anyone who has interest in LA, architecture, Hollywood, or portrayal of a city in film should see this, imho. Quote:If we can appreciate documentaries for their...
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Ahmed Bouanani – Tarfaya, ou La marche d’un poète AKA Tarfaya, or a poet’s...
Tarfaya, ou La marche d’un poète (1966) Bouanani’s first short film—adapted from a 16th century poem by a legendary Moroccan bard—tells the story of a man from Tarfaya who, from his early childhood,...
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Werner Herzog – Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere...
Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik Bayreuth vor der Premiere (1996) This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes...
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