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Xu Xin – A Yangtze Landscape (2017)
SynopsisA Yangtze Landscape utilizes a non-narrative style, setting off from the Yangtze’s marine port Shanghai, filming all the way to the Yangtze River’s source, Qinghai/Tibet – filming a total...
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Janelle Balnicke & David Kennard – The Hero’s Journey: The World of Joseph...
Quote:Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, a scholar who achieved legendary status as an explicator of myths, is reverently profiled in this documentary that encompasses his long...
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Olivier Zabat – 1/3 des yeux (2004)
1/3 des yeux / 1/3 of the eyesOlivier Zabat / France / 2004 / 70 min Communicating despite misunderstanding, caressing violence and sometimes being bitten, trying to control death and surviving in the...
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Spike Lee – When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts [+ Epilogue] (2006)
SynopsisSpike Lee’s award-winning documentary follows the events that preceded and followed Hurricane Katrina’s catastrophic passage through New Orleans in 2005....
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Charles Ferguson – Inside Job (2010)
Quote:Charles Ferguson’s “Inside Job” is strong, fair, and rational. The director tries mightily to untangle the complex architecture of the financial meltdown that has cost millions their jobs, their...
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Jørgen Leth – At danse Bournonville AKA Dancing Bournonville (1979)
At danse Bournonville is a portrait of the Bournonville tradition at the Royal Danish ballet that has survived for 150 years on the basis of a few notes and the memories of the dancers and is the...
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Leni Riefenstahl – Olympia 1. Teil – Fest der Völker AKA Olympia 1: Festival...
Quote:After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics, Riefenstahl shot a documentary that celebrates the human body by combining the poetry of...
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Leni Riefenstahl – Olympia 2. Teil – Fest der Schönheit AKA Olympia 2:...
Quote:After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics, Riefenstahl shot a documentary that celebrates the human body by combining the poetry of...
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Cyrill Schläpfer – Ur-Musig (1993)
Quote:This movie is about traditional swiss folkmusic has a lot more to offer than only folklore. “UR-Musig” is about the work and life of mountain peasants in the midst of archaic mountain...
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Volker Schaner – Lee Scratch Perry’s Vision of Paradise (2015)
Quote:A thrilling, poetic narration with the legendary Lee Scratch Perry, this movie is a unique project in many ways: it’s not a biography but rather a fairytale documentary! The director followed...
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Sergio Da Costa & Maya Kosa – L’Île aux oiseaux AKA Bird Island (2019)
Birds’ Island? A small veterinary centre specialized in ornithology. Social services have assigned Antonin this job with the aim of re-inserting him into the work-force after illness and isolation,...
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Mehrdad Oskouei – Hamishe Baraye Azadi Dir Ast AKA It’s Always Late For...
The portrait of three teenage boys being held in a youth corrections centre in Teheran, It’s Always Late for Freedom depicts the distress of a generation sacrificed on the altar of Iran’s profound...
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Claire Simon – Mimi (2003)
“Mimi isn’t a star, she’s just someone. I wanted to make a film about her life. That is, about the life of… someone. I wanted to follow as closely as possible the singularity of a real life in order...
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Barnaby O’Connor & Matthew O’Connor – The Pickup Game (2019)
IMDB:The Pickup Game is an inside look at the emergence of the ‘pickup’ industry – an business where self-styled seduction coaches travel the world, charging a small fortune to teach men skills they...
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Claire Simon – Premières solitudes AKA Young Solitude (2018)
Claire Simon portrays an important time for any individual, from 16 to 18 years of age. Set in the Paris suburbs in high school (for those lucky enough to go), teenagers chat after and even during...
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Pierre Sauvage – Les armes de l’esprit AKA Weapons of the Spirit (1987)
“Weapons of the Spirit,” Pierre Sauvage’s documentary about the extraordinary French village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon during the Nazi rule in World War II, is like a murder mystery in reverse. It’s an...
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Mariano Blatt & Eduardo Williams – Parsi (2019)
Quote:“No es” (It isn’t) is a cumulative poem by Mariano Blatt, which is constantly written over the course of a lifetime. The text of the poem, a list of “what seems to be but isn’t”, to which verses...
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Joris Ivens & Joop Huisken & Robert Ménégoz & Ruy Santos – Das Lied der...
Quote:“The Song of the Rivers, or Das Lied der Ströme, is a 1954 documentary production by the East Germany’s Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA). Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens was the leading...
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Patricio Guzmán – Le Cas Pinochet AKA The Pinochet Case (2001)
SynopsisOn Tuesday, September 22, 1998, General Augusto Pinochet flew to London on a pleasure trip. He rested for a few days. He had tea with Margaret Thatcher. He had every intention of visiting...
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Rogério Sganzerla – Nem Tudo é Verdade (1986)
Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It’s All True.Quote:A fictional account of Orson Welles’ real passage to Brazil where he was supposed to film a cultural film called “It’s All...
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