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Popular Documentary Movies
Unfinished Symphony
80 talented students of primary and secondary music schools – laureates of prestigious domestic and international competitions, from Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, represent a tangible example of the fact that reality in the Balkans cannot be reduced to conflicts.
Light in the Darkness
In this brand new featurette, directors Guillermo del Toro (The Devil's Backbone), Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn), and Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) explain what makes Night of the Living Dead a very special film and discuss its lasting impact on the horror genre. The featurette was produced exclusively for Criterion in 2017.
To Be Far
In september 2017 Samira comes from Iran to Sarajevo, BH for the first time to shoot a documentary. She tries to connect with the country and people. In order to find people who traveled from far places like her, she attempts to visit a refugee center, but all she finds are closed gates as she isn't allowed to see anyone.
The Capital Project
Although small in population, the music scene in the city of Fredericton, New Brunswick, is rich in talent across a wide range of genres including rock, punk, hip-hop, metal, country, pop, jazz, classical, and everything in-between. The Capital Project focuses on the tightly knit community and their relationship to The Capital, a music venue and bar that has served as a lynchpin of the live music scene for over a decade.
Living the Light: Robby Müller
For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijman had access to the thousands of Hi8 video diaries, pictures and Polaroids that Müller photographed while he was at work on one of the more than 70 features he shot throughout his career; often with long term collaborators such as Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier. The film intertwines these images with excerpts of his oeuvre, thus creating a fluid and cinematic continuum. In his score for Living the Light Jim Jarmusch gives this wide raging scale of life and art an additional musical voice.
You Are My Friend
Follow the vivacious six-year-old Branche, who has recently arrived in the Netherlands from Macedonia with his parents. Branche goes to school for the first time, but he doesn’t speak the language and doesn’t know anybody. Finding a friend isn’t all that easy.
Eingeimpft
Just like many other parents Jessica and David, the director of this movie, spend a lot of time researching vaccinations for children. Whilst David understands it as a matter of course, Jessica is more than alarmed about the side effects. They try to figure out the best option for their daughter. David actively investigates and speaks to scientists and doctors from different countries. A sudden outbreak of measles in their Berlin neighbourhood forces them to make a decision: Will they vaccinate their daughter or not?
David Bowie Is Dead
Started in 1993, finished in 2018. "David Bowie Is Dead" is a road movie in and out of london.
The Rest I Make Up
Maria Irene Fornes is “America's Great Unknown Playwright.” When she stops writing due to dementia, a friendship with a young writer reignites her visionary creative spirit, triggering a film collaboration that picks up where the pen left off.
Benching: The Art of Watching Trains
The tradition of watching graffiti on subway trains is passed down to a new generation.
Jag var också med
Astrid Askberger is thinking about different kinds of activism now and when she was a child and followed her mother to demonstrations.
Gimme a Faith
Evangelical Christians in the Bible Belt try to convert newly arrived Chinese international students.
Trace into Infinity
Documentary about the life and work of Oliver Dragojević, famous Croatian singer.
Segundo subsuelo
A Portuguese photographer, an architect and an emblematic building of the City of Buenos Aires, crossed by a common history, but at the same time particular. Segundo Subuelo is a documentary film about the obstinacy of memory, about the search for truth and about two characters traveling together a city with labyrinths that only they know.
Souterrains
An exploration of the world of animation director and cartoonist Diane Obomsawin.
When Pigs Come
Dragoslava has four TV sets, three grandchildren, two best friends, and a husband with whom she fights over a remote control. She keeps her private archive of memories of all major events in recent political history of five countries in which she has lived, without ever moving from her apartment. She is a trained poll monitor, passionate about her right to be in the minority, but more and more desperate as another early election approach.
Second Nature
Driven by the problem of marine plastic pollution, two designers collect nets from the bottom of the sea and, with 3D-printing, transform them into symbols of marine beauty.
Meat
Istrian traditions, singing, culinary delights. All that in the time-honoured ritual of pig slaughter or prašćina. What is the importance of meat today and can we give up its utilitarian rudimentarity in the face of political, ecological, nutritionist, and other contemporary trends?
Last Sermon at George's Creek
George's Creek Baptist Church is ending. There is no new generation to inherit the church. For the elderly congregation, their stories are coming to an end as well. The church's pastor, Earl, experiences his own passing echoed in the degeneration of his wife's Alzheimers.
Andrija Matijaš "Spider"
Documentary about one of the hero's and legend's of the Croatian civil war Andrija Matijaš Pauk. From the battlefronts of Zadar and Dubrovnik to the excellent way he led the tanks in Operation "Storm". His tragic on the second to last day of the Croatian Civil War on the entrance to the town of "Mrkonjić Grad". His 4th Guard Brigade added to their name the nickname "Pauci" meaning Spiders. This documentary by Darko Dovranić from 2018 shows the life of Andrija Matijaš. It is logical that most of this documentary is set during the Croatian civil war rather then the times of peace, because after all in the hardest moments the biggest heroes shine in the dark. About "Pauk" talk about the men that fought alongside him as well as his mother Anka and his wife Nada which decided to give the "Pauk's" legacy to the safekeeping of the country he died protecting.
Between Two Crossings
Between Two Crossings بين معبرين is a documentary film that follows the journey of Nour, a Palestinian student from Gaza who had a scholarship to enroll in Portland State University in the United States. But in order to get there, Nour struggled to find a way to travel through the only two gates separating the Gaza Strip from the rest of the world: Erez Checkpoint, controlled by Israel; and Rafah Crossing, controlled by Egypt. The documentary is a presentation of the extreme restrictions of freedom of movement that Gaza has endured for decades and shines a humanizing spotlight on everyday people navigating the anxiety of waiting and attempting to cross the border.
Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt
The life and art of Christopher Pratt. 'Canada's most famous living painter' - The Globe & Mail. This is the first feature-length documentary that Christopher Pratt has agreed to participate in. An honest, funny, eloquent, bizarre, and sometimes unsettling account of his life and art, and an extremely important cultural document.
Vienna Calling
A documentary road-movie following the journey of a grave-robber, who travels in a caravan to Vienna, to return stolen teeth of Strauss and Brahms. The teeth, which he stole himself.
Wax And Feathers
A man searches for a loved one's remains in his fragmented memories and dreams.
Uzbek Elegy
In this film you will see labour emigrants from Uzbekistan who for many years have been working in a car wash and a vehicle service station in Almaty (Kazakhstan).
The Making of True Stories
The making of a film about a bunch of people in Virgil, Texas.
The Tent
Shoemaker Babayev's stall will soon be liquidated, according to a statement from the city's beautification committee. Only the oriental mantras of the poet Nizami can save the shoemaker.
1968 Movement of Educated Youths Going to the Countryside and Mountains
Despite the increasing number of people entering the field of documentary filmmaking, historical subjects are less popular due to limited materials and the difficulty in handling them. Hu Jie has chosen to stay in this field and work hard. "I know that shooting these historical subjects is very dangerous, so how can you ask others to do it? It can only be their choice after they have seen your work." Since 2014, due to health reasons, Hu Jie has not been actively making documentaries. This year, in response to an invitation from the Lung Ying-tai Cultural Foundation, he still provided the film "A Sidelight of the 1968 Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement." Over the past three years, he has primarily engaged in printmaking, producing about 70 to 80 pieces, in addition to many small print bookplates.
But Now Is Perfect
God, or fate, has brought Becky Moses to Europe via Libya from her native country Nigeria, on the run for an arranged marriage with an elderly man. Never would she have thought she would end up in Riace, a mountain village in Calabria (southern Italy) that has become world famous by its open-door policy for immigrants by the flamboyant mayor Domenico Lucano. Through the eyes of Becky and her fellow villagers, we witness how the shrunken Italian community lives together with the new, mostly African, inhabitants.
Amazing China
Amazing China is a documentary film edited and produced based on the six-episode documentary series "Brilliant China" broadcasted on China Central Television (CCTV). The film is a joint production of China Central Television and China Film Co., Ltd. It premiered on March 2, 2018, in major cinemas across the People's Republic of China. The documentary highlights the achievements of the Communist Party of China (CPC) led by General Secretary Xi Jinping since the 18th National Congress of the CPC in 2012.
The Other Woman
While walking with her camera on a random street, the director experiences a casual encounter with a stranger who asks her to be portrayed. After several interviews, the mysterious disappearance of that woman becomes a source of obsession for the artist behind the camera..
I Will Speak, I Will Speak
A powerful story of loss, stigma, friendship, and being alive! "I will speak, I will speak!" tells how five HIV-infected men and women from Zambia (Lusaka), Russia (Moscow), the USA (San Francisco), Cambodia and England brave life while infected with the deadly virus.