Salomé Lamas – Terra de ninguém AKA No Man’s Land (2012)
Quote:A modest chair in the semi shade of a derelict place… An old man wearing a black shirt sits on that chair and starts talking with a calm voice: “Fiz um curso de engenharia elétrica, depois fui...
View ArticleElfi Mikesch – Mondo Lux – Die Bilderwelten des Werner Schroeter AKA Mondo...
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. At the time, he was working for the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf gallery on a...
View ArticleMarlon Fuentes & Bridget Yearian – Bontoc Eulogy (1995)
Quote:Marlon E. Fuentes’ Bontoc Eulogy is a haunting, personal exploration into the filmmaker’s complex relationship with his Filipino heritage as explored through the almost unbelievable story of the...
View ArticleCrystal Moselle – The Wolfpack (2015)
Quote:Locked away in an apartment in the Lower East Side of Manhattan for fourteen years, the Angulo family’s seven children—six brothers named Mukunda, Narayana, Govinda, Bhagavan, Krisna (Glenn),...
View ArticleCatherine Binet – Film sur Georges Perec (1990)
An ultra-rare two-part documentary made for French TV about Georges Perec, directed by his former partner Catherine Binet (who is mostly known for her only feature film, The Games of Countess Dolingen...
View ArticleDaniel Gordon – The Game of Their Lives (2002)
This is a great documentary about the North Korean soccer team that staged a series of improbable upsets as they advanced through the 1966 World Cup. More than just a sports documentary, it’s a...
View ArticleMichael Apted – 63 Up (2019)
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years....
View ArticleLynne Sachs – Film About A Father Who (2019)
A documentary by Lynne Sachs on her own father. 1.02GB | 1 h 13 min | 1280×720 | mkv http://nitroflare.com/view/BC664D80B3A032E/Film_About_A_Father_Who_%282019%29.part1.rar...
View ArticleClaude Lanzmann – Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures (2001)
The Sobibor uprising in 1943 in Poland was investigated by Mr. Lanzmann many years ago when he was filming “Shoah” and his interviews with a participant named Lerner date from then. The director felt...
View ArticleShinsuke Ogawa – 1000-nen kizami no hidokei AKA Magino Village: A Tale (1987)
The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the collective moved to Magino village. Unique to this film are fictional reenactments of the history of...
View ArticleN.C. Heikin – Kimjongilia AKA The Flower of Kim Jong II (2009)
Synopsis:For some, the Korean War was a clear example of American imperialism. For others, it was a valiant effort on the part of the UN and the Koreans to quash the spread of communism. For all...
View ArticleBorroloola Aboriginal Community with Carolyn Strachan and Alessandro Cavadini...
“White people don’t understand that there are two laws and two different kinds of custom in Australia… White people have different laws from Aboriginal people.” Quote:The Borroloola Aboriginal...
View ArticleTrinh T. Minh-ha – Naked Spaces: Living Is Round (1985)
Shot with stunning elegance and clarity, NAKED SPACES explores the rhythm and ritual of life in the rural environments of six West African countries (Mauritania, Mali, Burkino Faso, Togo, Benin and...
View ArticleAleksander Ford – Majdanek – cmentarzysko Europy aka Majdanek – Europe’s...
A documentary record shot on the 24th and 25th July 1944 of the concentration camp in Majdanek. Comparable to Resnais’ Nuit et bruillard, it’s filled with images of such staggering awfulness that they...
View ArticleWerner Herzog – La Soufrière AKA La Soufrière – Warten auf eine...
Quote:Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave. Herzog...
View ArticleIlya Kopalin – Sud Idyot AKA The Court is in Session (1943)
The world’s first trial against German war criminals took place in Kharkov in December 1943.Trial opened 15th December – 18th December defendants were executed. The film covers the trial of three...
View ArticleKen Burns & Lynn Novick – The War (2007)
Quote:THE WAR, a seven-part documentary series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the history and horror of the Second World War from an American perspective by following the...
View ArticleMikhail Belikov – Raspad AKA Decay (1990)
Quote:RASPAD is a hard-hitting Ukrainian film that details the horrors and aftermath of the Russian Chernobyl nuclear-reactor incident. In April 1986, Soviet journalist Alexander Zhuralev (Sergei...
View ArticleClaude Lanzmann – Pourquoi Israël AKA Israel, Why [+Extras] (1973)
Quote:Using interviews and other footage shot especially for this documentary, French director Claude Lanzmann investigates the state of Israel in 1972. This movie concentrates on Israelis going about...
View ArticleJean-Pierre Gorin – Routine Pleasures (1986)
Quote:Routine Pleasures makes of its investigation of “men and imagination” in 1980s America “a small-scale epic,” in Gorin’s words, a remake of Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939). Gorin’s...
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