Fabian Burstein – Porno Unplugged (2008)
Porno Unplugged is a journey into uncertainty, a quest by journalist Fabian Burstein, who looked behind the curtains of this fascinating industry. Starting in Budapest he heads westwards to explore a...
View ArticleMiguel Coyula – Nadie (2017)
The History of the Cuban Revolution through the personal experiences of writer Rafael Alcides, a once well known poet who became Nobody. 1.13GB | 1 h 8 min | 1280×720 | mkv...
View ArticleLoftur Guðmundsson –Ísland í lifandi myndum AKA Iceland in Moving Pictures...
There is very little information available online on this little gem, the first ‘feature-length’ film shot exclusively in Iceland by an Icelandic director, the pioneer Loftur Guðmundsson. Director and...
View ArticleRosa von Praunheim – König des Comics – Ralf König AKA King of Comics (2012)
Synopsis: Ralf König, one of the most successful German cartoonists, became famous with his comic book “The Most Desired Man,” which was made into a film starring Til Schweiger back in 1994. Wittily...
View ArticleJonathan Demme – Storefront Hitchcock (1998)
Jonathan Demme’s fantastic concert film of cult music favorite Robyn Hitchcock. The 1998 Variety review: The eccentric appeal of Brit singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock gets a nice permanent showcase...
View ArticleWerner Herzog – Echos aus einem düsteren Reich AKA Echoes from a Sombre...
Quote:Idi Amin Dada was not the only leader of a newly independent African nation who was accused (on the basis of reliable evidence) of bizarre practices. The former French colony known as the...
View ArticleFernando Birri – Los Inundados aka Flooded Out (1961)
From Allmovie:Government bureaucracy and ineptitude, as well as social foibles, get a drubbing in this socio-political satire by director Fernando Birri. Everything starts when the families in a poor,...
View ArticleFernando Birri – El siglo del viento AKA Century of the Wind (1999)
SynopsisThe book EL SIGLO DEL VIENTO, the third part of a trilogy about the history of Latin America, is not a traditional historical work. The Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano (1940)...
View ArticleThe Otolith Group – Otolith II (2009)
Quote:In 2006 The Otolith were commissioned by the Dutch curatorial platform If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, Kunsten Festival Des Arts and Argos in Brussels, and Casco...
View ArticleAbderrahmane Sissako – Rostov-Luanda (1998)
Born in Mauritania and raised in Mali, Abderrahmane Sissako received a scholarship to study film in Moscow, after graduating from school. To learn Russian, he was sent to Rostov on the Don river for...
View ArticleGina Telaroli – Traveling Light (2011)
“Ten properties of a subject, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.” – Robert Bresson “They began very...
View ArticleWerner Herzog – Die fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika AKA The Flying Doctors of...
Quote:Shows an independent group of physicians in remote areas of East Africa, and the difficulties they encounter in treating the African patients, who prefer local traditional remedies. 1.01GB | 44...
View ArticleMaminihaina Jean Aimé Rakotonirina – Ho ela velona ny razana AKA Longue vie...
For Malagasy people who honor their ancestors, when the deceased are in the grave, their spirits are always alive and present, they maintain their individualities and their kinship connections. At...
View ArticlePawel Lozinski – 100 lat w kinie AKA 100 Years of Polish Cinema [BFI Century...
Quote:The British Film Institute commissioned Krzysztof Kieslowski to make a documentary celebrating the centenary of cinema, and the latter passed the task onto his assistant at the time, Pawel...
View ArticleKe Guo – San Shi Er aka Thirty Two (2013)
Quote:Guo Ke follows his multiple-award winning short Thirty Two with the searching and highly moving documentary Twenty Two, which again focuses on the subject of Chinese ‘comfort women’ during World...
View ArticleAntonio Reis & Margarida Cordeiro – Ana (1982)
SYNOPSISIn those days … The legend of milk in the dark house. Interior time. Almost silence. Light. The natural timeless exterior house. Winter. (Three generations: a grandmother, a scientist son who...
View ArticleSu Friedrich – Hide and Seek (1997)
HIDE AND SEEK tells the story of Lou, a twelve year old girl coming to terms with her budding sexuality in the mid 1960’s. Her bittersweet tale is skillfully interwoven with clips from a wide array of...
View ArticleWerner Herzog – Lektionen in Finsternis AKA Lessons of Darkness (1992)
This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames. In contrast to the common documentary film there are no comments and few interviews. What must have been the hell itself is...
View ArticleLindsay Anderson – Thursday’s Children (1954)
Synopsis:Narrated by Richard Burton, Thursday’s Children is a documentary about the Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, England. Filmed without sound and using narration sparingly, the documentary...
View ArticleRoberto Minervini – What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (2018)
What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire is the story of a community of black people in the American South during the summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of black men sent shockwaves...
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