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Claire Simon – Coûte que coûte AKA Whatever It Takes (1995)
In an industrial zone of the city of Nice, Jihad is starting a factory making ready meals. His employers Fahid, Toufik, Madanni, Marouan and Gisèle share different tasks and struggle to keep the...
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Nikolaus Geyrhalter – Die bauliche Maßnahme (2018)
Brenner Pass, Alpine border, spring 2016: the Austrian government announces the construction of a border fence, expecting a shift of the refugee routes to Italy after the Balkan route is closed. The...
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Patricio Guzmán – La cordillère des songes AKA The Cordillera of Dreams (2019)
Quote:Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Cannes Film Festival, master filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s The Cordillera of Dreams completes his trilogy (with Nostalgia for the Light and The Pearl...
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Shane O’Sullivan – Children of the Revolution (2010)
Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out toplot world revolution as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army.What were they fighting for...
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Heinrich Breloer – Brecht (2019)
Hollywood Reporter:Director Heinrich Breloer mixes drama with documentary in his marathon TV biopic of radical playwright and leftist icon Bertolt Brecht. Interweaving glossy dramatic scenes with...
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Kazuo Hara – Yuki Yukite shingun AKA The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987)
Synopsis:The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On is a brilliant exploration of memory and war guilt, a subject often ignored in modern Japan. In this controversial documentary, Kazuo Hara follows Kenzo...
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Sabina Guzzanti – Draquila – L’Italia che trema AKA Draquila – Italy Trembles...
Quote:A massive natural disaster nearly destroys a city in Italy, while corruption and political double-dealing may well finish the job in this documentary from filmmaker Sabina Guzzanti. In April...
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Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter – Space Dogs (2019)
Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. According to a legend, she returned to Earth as a ghost and has roamed the streets of Moscow ever...
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Luis López Carrasco – El año del descubrimiento Aka The Year of the Discovery...
In 1992, when the Olympics and the Expo at last presented Spain as an emerging new democracy, the de-industrialisation policies were met with riots in the southern town of Cartagena. The locals...
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William Klein – Festival panafricain d’Alger aka The Panafrican Festival in...
Quote:Staged in Algiers, the first Pan-African Cultural Festival was a momentous event, bringing together musicians and dancers from throughout the continent with many first-worlders joining in the...
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Suha Arin – Tahtaci Fatma AKA Fatma of the Forest (1979)
Quote:“Fatma of the Forest”, documentary,reflects life, longings and a major “fear” in the subconscious of a 12-years old “woodcutter” girl living under very hard conditions in the forest of Toros...
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Mary Dore & Noel Buckner – The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the...
The fight for the freedom of Loyalist Spain during the 1936-39 civil war pitted an International Brigade of 35,000 civilian soldiers from more than 50 nations against the well-equipped insurgents of...
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Guy Devart & Edouard Hayem – Citroën Nanterre, mai-juin 1968 (1968)
Quote:SynopsisOn 20 May 1968, the workers of the Citroën factory in Nanterre decided not to go back to work. The “cops” of the factory were chased away… Chronicle of a strike in a factory which hadn’t...
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Michel Khleifi & Eyal Sivan – Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in...
Plot Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel takes a fresh look at the inhabitants of Palestine-Israel. For two months in the summer of 2002, two film-makers, the Israeli Eyal Sivan and...
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Rob Garver – What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018)
Nell Minow wrote:Steven Spielberg sent a telegram to New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael to tell her that she was the only critic who understood “Jaws.” George Roy Hill, furious about her review of...
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Albert Maysles & David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin – Salesman (1969)
Synopsis:Filmmakers (and brothers) Albert and David Maysles follow four employees of a company that makes expensive, ornate, illustrated bibles as they attempt to sell the items door-to-door to...
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Hubert Sauper – Epicentro (2020)
Waves crashing over a breakwater at the edge of the sea—this dramatic opening image conveys the vital spirit of a place that has withstood decades of external pressure. On the streets of Havana,...
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Marco Bellocchio – Vacanze in Val Trebbia (1980)
SynopsisDocumentary-fiction about the director and his family’s holiday in his homeland. The journey is a means to confront the past, memories, one’s own origins, but it is also the radiography of an...
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Gerald Peary – For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism...
Actress Patricia Clarkson narrates this documentary dramatizing the unique history of American film criticism. In addition to eliciting the thoughts and opinions of such respected film critics as...
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François Reichenbach – Un coeur gros comme ça AKA The Winner (1961)
Quote:The adventures of a young Senegalese, Abdoulaye Faye, who comes to Paris to try his luck as a boxer. His dream of winning the championship and conquering women – especially Michèle Morgan – whom...
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