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Mehran Tamadon – Mon pire ennemi AKA My Worst Enemy (2023)

As an experiment, Mehran Tamadon asks exiled Iranians to interrogate him as if they were an agent of the Islamic Republic. A renowned actor with first-hand knowledge of such mistreatment takes up the...

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Kiko Goifman & Claudia Priscilla – Bixa Travesty AKA Tranny Fag (2018)

Synopsis: A documentary that follows Mc Linn Da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo. Her electrifying performances (with plenty of nudity) brazenly...

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Gabriel Glissant – La machette et le marteau (1975)

Quote: Shot during the cane workers’ strikes in 1975, this first authentically West Indian film bluntly depicts Guadeloupe as it was, thirty years after departmentalization. La machette et le marteau...

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David Attenborough – Adventure: Quest Under Capricorn (1963)

Quote:1. Desert GodsFirst transmitted in 1963, this is the first in a series of six programmes by David Attenborough on the Northern Territory of Australia. David Attenborough, cameraman Eugene Carr...

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Denis Gheerbrant – La république Marseille (2009)

unifrance wrote: 7 films by Denis Gheerbrant. La République Marseille leads us through seven worlds that make up a city and give it the aspect of a republic: the world of dockers, activist workers,...

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Brett Morgen – Moonage Daydream (2022)

A cinematic odyssey exploring David Bowie’s creative and musical journey. From visionary filmmaker Brett Morgen, and sanctioned by the Bowie estate....

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James P. Lewis – Heartland Reggae (1980)

Tom Lyons, Eye Weekly said:Jacob Miller reappears on the darkened stage not as a good-natured clown but as a possessed messenger. Peter Tosh spits out “400 Years” as if he is reading a death sentence...

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Brandon Kramer – The First Step (2021)

In a divided America, Van Jones attempts to pass a landmark criminal justice bill – and finds himself under fire from all sides....

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Frederick Wiseman – Boxing Gym (2010)

PLOT: Austin, Texas. Lord’s Gym was founded sixteen years ago by Richard Lord, a former professional boxer. A wide variety of people of all ages, races, ethnicities and social classes train at the...

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Dusan Hanák – Obrazy starého sveta AKA Pictures of the Old World (1972)

Dušan Hanák’s renowned film was voted by critics as the best Slovak film of all time. Inspired by the photographs of Slovak artist Martin Martinček (1913–2004) whose pictures distilled entire...

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Ulrich Boehm & Rüdiger Safranski – The Magus of Messkirch: Martin Heidegger...

A documentary about the life and work of Martin Heidegger, born and raised a Roman Catholic in Messkirch, Baden-Württemberg. Der Zauberer von Messkirch- Martin Heidegger (Rudiger Safranski,...

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Bill Brummel – The Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History (1998)

The history of the Ku Klux Klan in America. The.Ku.Klux.Klan.A.Secret.History.1998.DVDRip.x264-SUPERNAUT.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 1h 29mnSize: 1.38 GiBDXVA: CompatibleMinimum settings:...

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Griffin Dunne – Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017)

Literary icon Joan Didion reflects on her remarkable career and personal struggles in this intimate documentary directed by her nephew, Griffin Dunne....

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Dominique Cabrera – Le cinquième plan de La Jetée (2024)

SYNOPSIS Cabrera’s cousin discovers himself in Chris Marker’s La Jetée: a photo of him and his parents on the observation deck of Orly airport. They had arrived there from Algeria in 1962. Le...

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Jessica Gorter – 900 Days (2011)

This film tells the story of one of the most incredible and, oddly enough, outside Russia relatively unknown events that took place in the Second World War: the blockade of Leningrad by the Germans....

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Trisha Ziff – El hombre que vio demasiado AKA The Man Who Saw Too Much (2016)

Synopsis: A film about fragility; about a man obsessed with photographing the accident who discovered that the fate of others was his way of connecting to life. When does the image of the accident...

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Jung Jin-woo – Janyeo-mok aka Tree of Adultery (1985)

The matriarch of a highly respected family orders one of her daughter-in-laws to kill herself unless she can produce a child within a year....

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Calum Waddell – Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo (2016)

Feature-length in-depth documentary by High Rising Productions chronicling the Giallo film genre from its beginnings as early 20th century crime fiction, to its later influences on the modern slasher...

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Mehran Tamadon – Jaii keh khoda nist AKA Where God Is Not (2023)

A prison cell is set up in an empty room on the edge of Paris. Three former political prisoners re-act how they were once interrogated and tortured....

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Kristine Briede & Audrius Stonys – Bridges of Time (2018)

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics witnessed the birth of...

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