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Nick Broomfield – Fetishes (1996)
For two weeks, Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandora’s Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses....
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Tony Zierra – SK13: Kubrick’s Endgame (2024)
Introducing SK13: Kubrick’s Endgame, a daring documentary by director Tony Zierra (Filmworker) that delves into the enigmatic world of Stanley Kubrick, the revered maestro of cinema, and his...
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Various – No Other Land (2024)
Quote: This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian...
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Nick Broomfield – Behind the Rent Strike (1974)
Nick Broomfield documents the rent strike in Kirkby New Town in 1973, when 3000 residents protested against the Housing Finance Bill. Broomfield’s graduation project from the National Film and...
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Chantal Akerman – Cinéma, de notre temps: Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman...
Synopsis: Janine Bazin and André Labarthe approached Chantal Akerman about making a film for the series; eagerly, Akerman proposed a number of filmmakers—but all had already been done. So she...
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Thierno Souleymane Diallo – Au cimetière de la pellicule AKA The Cemetery of...
Diallo sets out with his camera in search of the birth of filmmaking in Guinea. Charming and determined, he traces his country’s film heritage and history and reveals the importance of film archives....
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Nick Broomfield – Proud to Be British (1973)
Racist, patriotic, and imperialistic, the subjects of Broomfield’s second film – in which citizens from across the class spectrum are asked for their views about being British and Britain in general –...
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Nick Broomfield – Who Cares (1971)
The camera shows views of the Victorian city of Liverpool while residents deliver comments off-camera what they feel about their relocation to large housing estates while the old inner city buildings...
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Joshua Chaplinsky – Postcards from the Future: The Chuck Palahniuk...
Fight Club caused a literary movement among a generation of readers. His stories have incited fan frenzies and made people pass out. Now he’s the star of his very own documentary. SummaryPostcards...
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Peter Kern – Hamlet: This Is Your Family – Schlingensief’s Nazi Line (2001)
“A provocative and ironic-pamfletteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-‘Hamlet’ (2001). Both a media event and a form of political action Schlingensief let...
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Rosvita Dransfeld – Broke. (2009)
Set in a pawnshop the documentary by award-winning filmmaker Rosie Dransfeld features the unlikely friendship between a cynic pawnbroker and a psychopath....
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Rithy Panh – Everything Will Be OK (2022)
Animals have enslaved humans and taken over the world. The statues of the past are gone and new ones are erected to suppress the will of the people Everything Will Be OK (2022).mkvGeneralContainer:...
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Jerome Hill – Albert Schweitzer (1957)
Quote: This biographical documentary, written by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and spoken by Burgess Meredith, traces the life of Dr. Schweitzer (with actors playing the characters), from his birth in France...
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Gerd Kroske – Wollis Paradies aka Wolli in Paradise (2008)
Wolfgang “Wolli” Köhler is a Fassbinder-like character. A refugee from East Germany—yesterday, porn cinema owner and brothel manager, quoting readily from Marx and Lenin, he defines himself as “a...
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Tamra Davis – Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010)
Quote: Jean-Michel Basquiat shot to fame in the early ‘80s as a painter with bright strong flashes of color, streaks of black, jagged, oddly angled heads and crossed-out words, then died of a heroin...
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Jocelyne Saab & Jorg Stocklin – Le Liban dans la tourmente AKA Lebanon in a...
Synopsis: A few months after the incident of April 13, 1975, during which Palestinian civilians were machine-gunned by Phalangist militiamen, the toll is most tragic: six thousand dead, twenty...
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Kazuhiro Sôda – Seishin AKA Mental (2008)
Quote: MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers, in...
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Alexandre O. Philippe – Lynch/Oz (2022)
Victor Fleming’s film The Wizard of Oz (1939) is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work....
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Jocelyne Saab – Les Nouveaux croisés d’Orient (ou Portrait d’un mercenaire...
Synopsis: Portrait of a French mercenary working in Lebanon, hired by the Phalange to train the militias. War leaves its traces; and for some, who see death as part of the job, it’s a vocation....
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Daniel Lucchesi & Alex Ramseyer-Bache – We Are Poets (2012)
Multicultural British teens from Leeds’ inner city pursue spoken poetry. They compete at Brave New Voices, a prestigious slam competition in Washington D.C., confronting youth stereotypes through...
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