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Popular Documentary Movies
As Pioneiras do Cinema em Língua Portuguesa
An introduction to cinema made by Portuguese-speaking women, narrated by a fictionalized Bárbara Virgínia, the first Portuguese woman director.
Tumpang Tindih
About the mess of electricity poles in South Jakarta. A problem that can actually be solved, if there is clear action.
Two Strikes
Mark Jones, a former West Point cadet struggling with PTSD and alcoholism, got life in prison in Florida after an attempted carjacking under Florida’s “two-strikes” law. Such statutes result in mandatory maximum sentences, including life in prison, for crimes in which no one is injured. Florida’s is among the strictest, but many states have similar laws that increase prison time for repeat offenses.
Vis
A serial killer artist who paints with human blood analyzes her psyche and worldview while making a documentary about her career in art and murder.
The Silent Witness
Tomiko Morimoto West reflects on her time as a 13-year-old girl in Hiroshima and recounts what she witnessed, how she survived, and the impact of the experience.
Two Sun
A mood piece with its own rhythm, this evocative film explores the relationship to the self and our ever-evolving understanding of identity.
Arrabal the panic explosion
Celebration of Fernando Arrabal, 90 years old, poet, playwright, member of the transcendent body of satraps of the college of pataphysics and founder of the panic movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor. With Alejandra Chulia Jordan, Arrabal specialist. With the contribution of François Naudin. Moderation Wanda Mihuléac. Caroline Corre for bibliophile books.
Laetitia Ky ? Who's that woman ?
Laetitia Ky in Paris. Laetitia Ky began by sculpting her hair, then she moved on to painting, writing, cinema, and recently modeling terracotta. She does nothing like the others, and multiplies projects... Meeting on the occasion of the finishing of his exhibition Who's that woman? LIS10 gallery in Paris. Also featuring Alessandro Romanini, curator of the exhibition, Alberto Chiavacci, gallery owner, and Jacobleu, Ivorian artist and cultural operator.
The Bravery to Blossom in Darkness
A group of extraordinary children, a school lost in the Tanzanian mountains and many legends. How are they intertwined and what might their stories have in common? But above all, where does the courage to blossom in the dark lie?
My Personal Funhouse Mirror
A look at past diary entries reveals a teenage girl's struggles with body image and depression
la linea la linea la linea de la vida
Revisiting family archive images, Marina cannot help but wonder what would have happened if she had recorded those images. Through the modification of the footage she tries to find out if it is possible to know a person through what underlies the images. In this case, her grandmother Esther.
DiElectric Drift
A charged meditation on impermanence and entropy explored through Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and early video art. Using hand processed 16mm film and analog video synthesis, DiElectric Drift asks what an artist is capable of creating in time, and what do monumental yet fleeting gestures ultimately mean.
Public Surfaces
In 1964, Baltimore became the second city in the country to pass a 1% for Art law, allocating one percent of the construction budget for any public building to commissioning a new piece of art. Through landscapes of the city and depictions of the sculptures, the film explores the history of the program, the failures of modernism, the neglect of the school system, and asks who public art can really serve.
PATOU: In Black & White
With a career that spans over four decades and across the globe, Jamaican singer Pat Powell (Patou) is one of Australia’s most accomplished yet hidden vocal talents. He is the artist that everyone wants to work with – the singer’s singer who sings with 15 bands, including the ARIA award-winning Melbourne Ska Orchestra. Born in the UK to Jamaican parents, Pat left the racism of the UK as soon as he could, although he ‘stupidly’ found his way to Australia with its own racism issues. Father to four children from different mothers with varying ethnic backgrounds, Pat’s children all identify differently and discuss racism and where identity comes from.
Become Successful and be the Master of the World
Filmed mostly on a Mini DV camera Gavin has thought of a quick way to become successful and be the master of the world but he has to wait for it all to fall into place… he has to wait for the postman to start production documenting the process of being master of the world.
And Then We Were Taken Away
In the 20th century, authorities in Switzerland placed over 100'000 children and adolescents in homes and foster families. The measures were implemented mainly for moral reasons and affected socially marginalized families in particular. The parents had hardly any success in legal proceedings against these decisions. Instead of fighting poverty, the state fought the poor. In the participatory ethnographic documentary "And then we were taken away", two men in their sixties talk about the administrative foster care they experienced as a child. They lead the audience to the homes, locations of their tumultuous youth and to their favourite places. Through their biographies, the men document how out-of-home placements shaped their childhood, youth and present.
Agafya and Sonechka
Sonya is an orphan abandoned by her parents. Born with a serious illness, she cannot walk. Kind woman Natasha takes her away from the orphanage and does everything to get the girl back on her feet. One day Sonya learns about Old Believer Agafya Lykova and says she wants to meet her. Brining the disabled child through taiga forest along difficult terrain not every adult can walk is a great challenge, but such is the beginning of this story of love, faith and empathy.
Blockade Scene
Music, dance and art are not just components of human existence. It's something that can keep you alive when there's nothing else left. We know examples when only the strength of the spirit, backed by hope, helped people to survive in the most difficult conditions and resist cold, hunger and death itself.
Misha-Icebreaker
Mikhail Klaus, a resident of the village of Rechnikov Zhatai in Yakutia, hails from Austro-Hungarian Germans, as evidenced by his surname, which is rare for these latitudes. It is generally believed that "it's good for a Russian, then death for a German," but Misha's family has become so Russified that it does not fit the saying. Klus is a representative of one of the rarest professions on earth – a shipwrecker. Klus, who works in the wild frost, like other frostbitten people, dreams of going to the sea with his son Sasha. Will he succeed in fulfilling his dream?
Two Wars
Two Wars is a work of thought, imagination, and narrative divided in two chapters, World War I and World War II. The first chapter is set in Monte Cassino in Central Italy and the second ten kilometres to the south in the village of San Pietro Infine.
Outlines
How does one leave positive marks on their body? In the short documentary, three young adults open up about their relationships with their bodies through tattoos. They think tattoos showcase something otherwise invisible about themselves to the world.
Life After the Death of Natasha T.
Natasha dies in her prime. The whole world survived it, the inhabitants of which reflect on the unknown against the backdrop of everyday fuss.
Grenades in Maqluba
The film documents the occupation and oppression of the local Palestinian people in the south of the West Bank.
… outsiders
In this documentary dedicated to his grandfather and brother, Mateo portrays two pieds noirs brothers separated by complicated family choices and circumstances.
Why the Long Coffee?
In the winter of 2019, to overcome my fatherly pain, the filmmaker captures the hospitalization of his son Nathan, on the threshold of his uncertain entry into adulthood.
Chinhua's Blossom Unfolds
At the ripe age of 102, Chinhua Ho Chen, “Miss Golden Blossom”, takes center stage. In 1938, her voice graced the tracks of “Endless Spring” and “The Camellia Lady”, released by Victory Records, under the stage name “Yingying”. She also stands as the first among renowned female singers of Taiwan’s popular ditties. Through Miss Chinhua, we hear the echoes of the once renowned singer Yingying, preserving the distinct voices of Taiwan in popular music and songs.