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Abderrahmane Sissako – La vie sur terre AKA Life on Earth (1998)
In the last days of 1999, after a few shots of a French supermarket, abundant in food and color, we hear Dramane compose a letter home to his father in Mali whom he then visits in the village of...
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Krzysztof Zanussi & Henryk Ryszka – Samolot z Budapesztu AKA A Plane from...
An early Zanussi short. Fun fact: it’s called “Plane from Budapest” but the only arriving plane in the movie is from Amsterdam.Quote:Here we see short scenes from a random day at the airport. We have...
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Pierre Perrault – Le pays de la terre sans arbre ou Le mouchouânipi AKA The...
It is a documentary joining 3 periods of filming in the Mouchouanipi, which is a faraway land in the North of eastern Canada. Anthropologists, archeologists and native people all together in this...
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Pierre Perrault – C’était un Québecois en Bretagne, Madame (1977)
Hauris Lalancette, from Abitibi, travel and draws parallels between two amazing parts of the country that are considered poor and neglected. It is also about the search for ancestors and nostalgia of...
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Liryc Paolo Dela Cruz – Notes from Unknown Maladies (2018)
94-year-old Concepcion has been suffering from nervous breakdown for the past 50 years. She chooses to live alone and is haunted by random memories of the past: a memory of a nation and other life’s...
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Abbas Kiarostami – ABC Africa (2001)
Plot:Abbas Kiarostami and his assistant, Seifollah Samadian, travel to Kampala, Uganda at the request of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development. For ten days, their camera captures...
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João Pedro Rodrigues – Viagem à Expo AKA Journey to the Expo (1998)
SynopsisDue to the EXPO 98 promotion campaign the Portuguese capital city appeared quite often in the French media. During their Summer holidays the following year, João Pedro Rodrigues once again...
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Eloy Enciso – Arraianos (2012)
Synopsis:A village on the border between Galicia and Portugal, hidden deep in the woods, a world out of time. Documentary moments of everyday life stand alongside dramatized scenes acted by the...
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Jayce Salloum & Elia Suleiman – Introduction to the End of an Argument (1990)
This highly kinetic tableaux of uprooted sights and sounds works most earnestly to expose the racial biases concealed in familiar images. Relying on valuable snippets from feature films such as...
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Sylvain George – L’impossible – Pages Arrachées (Songs from the protests) (2009)
Situated in the vein of Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Dostoievski and Benjamin and of free jazz and punk, this film bears witness to the iniquitous policies that shape our era, the “infernal” nature of...
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Maria Silvia Bazzoli & Christian Lelong – Moustapha Alassane, cinéaste du...
Moustapha Alassane is a living legend in African cinema. His adventures take us to the era of “pre-cinema”, to the times of magical lantern and Chinese shadows. He is the first director of Nigerien...
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Jan Nemec – Oratorio for Prague [+Extra] (1968)
One of the most powerful documentaries ever made, Oratorio for Prague contains the only footage from the Soviet-led invasion of Prague in 1968. Czech New Wave filmmaker Jan Nĕmec (A Report on the...
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Sebastian Junger – Korengal (2014)
Picks up where Restrepo left off. Once again we meet the men of Battle Company, 2nd Battalion, 503nd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team in 2007-8. They are deployed at one of the...
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João Pedro Rodrigues – Esta É a Minha Casa AKA This Is My Home (1997)
SynopsisJoão Pedro Rodrigues films the holiday journey of an emigrant family from Paris to their homeland in Trás-os-Montes. Footage from the couple’s daily life in Paris – he is a cobbler and she is...
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Gürcan Keltek – Meteorlar (2017)
They come at night and everybody steps out. They light torches and remember those who have walked these streets before them. In the coming hours, the city will be on lockdown: an eclipse appears and...
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Janus Sørensen – Grønlandsfilmen aka Elfelt’s Greenland film (1928)
A Danish documentary about Greenland. Filmed by Janus Sørensen for Elfelt Film. Peter Elfelt takes an important place in the history of Danish cinema as being probbly the first documentarist in...
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Ken Burns & Lynn Novick – Frank Lloyd Wright [+Extra] (1998)
Frank Lloyd Wright tells the story of the greatest of all American architects. Wright was an authentic American genius, a man who believed he was destined to redesign the world, creating everything...
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Paula Rodríguez – JAAR el lamento de las imágenes (2017)
Quote:Observes the creative process and thinking of Alfredo Jaar, of the the most relevant artists in contemporary art. His work deals from the migration in the frontier of Mexico and the US, to the...
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Dava Whisenant – Bathtubs Over Broadway (2018)
Quote:When he started as a comedy writer for the “Late Show with David Letterman,” Steve Young had few interests outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve...
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Matthieu Bareyre – L’époque AKA Young and Alive (2018)
In the months following the terrorist attacks in Paris, the youth has taken the night. A community has risen, that looks for belonging in a world they don’t understand and seek to change the rules....
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