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Lucas Gallo – 1982 (2019)
SynopsisIn 1982, the Argentine military dictatorship invaded the Falkland Islands, located 500 kilometers off the country’s coast. The government left no stone unturned in using propaganda to convince...
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Kim Longinotto – The Day I Will Never Forget (2002)
Documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto (Divorce Iranian Style) directs The Day I Will Never Forget, a personal look at the hotly debated issue of female genital mutilation. Longinotto presents several...
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James Algar – A True-Life Adventure: Secrets of Life (1956)
Quote:Going for a dramatic approach, this installment takes a look at the changing world of nature, from the sky to the sea to the sun to the insects to volcanic action to the planet itself. It’s...
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Jeremy Workman – The World Before Your Feet (2018)
For over seven years and for reasons he can’t explain, Matt Green, 37, has been walking every block of every street in New York City – a journey of more than 8,000 miles. From Director Jeremy Workman...
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Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini – Runaway [+Extras] (2001)
Quote:At first nothing strikes you out of the usual with Runaway. It is a straightforward documentary of exchanges between counselors at a women’s shelter and adolescent girls who have run away from...
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Kazuhiro Sôda – Peace (2010)
What is peace? What is coexistence? And what are the basis for them? PEACE is a visual-essay-like observational documentary, which contemplates these questions by observing the daily lives of people...
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James Algar – A True-Life Adventure: White Wilderness (1958)
Quote:Six years worth of footage shot in Alberta, Canada has been condensed into a 72-minute documentary which offers a unique and touching look at the daily lives of animals such as polar bears,...
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Rosa von Praunheim – Die Jungs vom Bahnhof Zoo AKA Rent Boys (2011)
This German documentary explores the history of hustler culture at Bahnhof Zoo train station, an unofficial meeting place for male prostitutes from the world over. The film discusses hustler world...
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Rosa von Praunheim – Männer, Helden, schwule Nazis aka Men, Heroes and Gay...
A German documentary by Rosa von Praunheim that looks at gay men with hard-core right wing views, Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis gives the impression of being documentary dynamite. ‘Some may be shocked...
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Phil Agland – China: Beyond the Clouds (1994)
Quote:Travel to Lijiang and learn about life in China of the 1990s. At first, this small town may seem strange to you and its residents very different, but you’ll quickly discover that people in...
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Olivier Bohler – Sous le nom de Melville AKA Code Name: Melville (2008)
Jean-Pierre Melville’s independent and original approach to film-making on titles such as Bob Le Flambeur, Le Doulos, and Le Samourai earned him the reputation of the father, or at least the...
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Deborah Stratman – In Order Not to Be Here (2002)
SynopsisAn uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar...
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Mariano Llinás – Lejano interior (2020)
Quote:“One day I am going to pull the anchor that keeps my ship away from the seas”, is one of the most famous phrases of the Belgian poet Henri Michaux, to whom the film director Mariano Llinás...
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Kazuhiro Sôda – Engeki 2 AKA Theatre 2 (2012)
Can the theatre arts survive in the 21st century? If Theatre 1 is about the world of Hirata, Theatre 2 is a feature documentary, which depicts the relationship between Hirata and the world we live in....
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Aleksandr Medvedkin – Kinopoezd – Cinetrain (1933-35)
As Chris Marker’s fans already know, Kinopoezd was a project by Alexandr Medvedkin, Soviet filmmaker and though he isn’t mentioned in the titles, he was a main locomotive in this crazy journey.Train...
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Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini – Divorce Iranian Style (1998)
Quote:Divorce Iranian Style challenges preconceptions about what life is like for women in Iran. The most startling thing about the film is simply that it was made. The filmmakers follow the cases of...
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Alain Cavalier – Rene (2002)
AMG :“French director Alain Cavalier ventures into pseudo-documentary territory with his 2002 film René. Purportedly concocted as a means for Cavalier to help actor Joël Lefrançois lose weight while...
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Kazuo Hara – Zenshin shosetsuka aka A Dedicated Life (1994)
An interesting documentary about an interesting man, to say the least. Kazuo Hara follows up his controversial work “The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On” with a bio-documentary about Mitsuharu Inoue,...
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Ayo Akingbade – So They Say (2019)
British Nigerian filmmaker and artist Ayo Akingbade’s new short is a beautifully made look at the legacy of London anti-racist activist group Newham Monitoring Project and two cases they helped bring...
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Michael Klier – Der Riese (1984)
Der Riese (The Giant), 1983by Harun Farocki [Harun Farocki gave the following introduction at a screening of Michael Klier’s Der Riese as part of the #VIDEOTAPES series at the Neuer Berliner...
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