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Popular Documentary Movies
How to Find Celebrities in New York (a Guide)
For three months, Noah Laforest, Illia Solano and Kyle Matthew Stone have been students in New York. And for three months, none of them have met a single celebrity. Hoping to change that, the three set out on a journey to "hunt" famous people in the big city. Do they succeed?
Un(re)solved
Roman Ducksworth Jr., Peter Francis, Jimmie Lee Jackson, Alberta O. Jones. Four names, four cases reopened under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, implemented in 2008 to re-examine racist violent crimes from the days of the civil rights movement.
Terminally Optimistic
Terminally Optimistic follows the life journeys of three women with metastatic breast cancer. Eva, Krissy and Kim are adapting to their failing bodies in a variety of ways, because they must. Life has changed drastically after diagnosis, and they must reinvent themselves and accept a new "normal." This is the story of these three METAvivors, their families, caregivers, and communities.
MonoKate
Documentary that follows Go_A’s lead singer Kateryna Pavlenko in the build up to Eurovision 2021.
The Backside of God
The Backside of God is an experimental documentary utilizing archival footage, digital glitch, chemical abstraction, and direct animation to explore the intricacies of the artist’s relationship with their familial, religious, and queer identity.
Uma Fakeada no Coração do Brasil
The documentary follows the events behind the mysterious attack on presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro on 6 September, 2018, when Adélio Bispo stabbed the candidate during a rally in Minas Gerais. Did he acted alone as everyone believes or a conspiracy involving people close to the politician were involved in order to get gain an election? Several questions are raised in this special report.
This is Jessica
Jessica Bair, a longtime LGBTQIA+ rights advocate with Human Rights Campaign, shares her struggle to remain in her Mormon faith despite coming out as transgender.
Breaking Meth
See the rise, the danger and the fight against the life-threatening crystal meth. In 2020 no fewer than 32 methamphetamine labs were rolled up in the Netherlands, while they were hardly found two years earlier. Rick shows how devastating these drugs are. He has been addicted for twenty years. There is also an answer to the question: what do Mexican cartels have to do with production in the Netherlands?
The Cannabis Question
NOVA investigates the story of cannabis from the criminalization that has disproportionately harmed communities of color to the latest medical understanding of the plant. What risks does cannabis pose to the developing brain? How much do we know about its potential medical benefits? As cannabis becomes socially accepted, scientists are exploring its long-term health consequences.
Nudo Inagotable
An invisible narrator speaks (without temporal notion) about the reminiscences that evoke in him an introspective journey through memory, therefore, through pain. A short film about romance, and like every romantic piece, written from remembrence. A tear. My cinematic self portrait.
Dear Chantal
Pereda returns with a small, mysterious and moving tribute to Chantal Akerman, conceived as a series of joyful impossible letters addressed to the great disappeared from the cinema, to answer her fictional question about renting her bright apartment in Coyoacán.
The Road to Kuthriyar
Dhruv, a goodhearted but complacent wildlife researcher from the city, is faced with the task of conducting a 'mammal survey' of the 600-square-kilometre Kodaikanal Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu. Armed with 40-year-old maps of the area and a GPS device, he must navigate the park on foot and he recruits a local tribesman from the area - Dorai, to serve as his guide. The severity of the task immediately becomes apparent to Dhruv. Aside from the physical challenge posed, he struggles with his wayward assistant. Not only is Dorai addicted to alcohol, but he also appears to be terrified of officials and uniforms. Through the course of their journey, however, the two forge an unlikely friendship and a relationship between equals. When an accident takes him to Dorai's village, the wool of 'civilisation' is lifted from Dhruv's eyes and his attitudes towards the marginalised are transformed.
You Can’t Show My Face
The sound of the streets of Teheran is transformed into forbidden beats, people sing and young women and men rhyme their inner feelings. They tell us about a society that rejects them, streets belonging to the government and a vision of a utopia within creativity. Street salesmen and pedestrians form an imaginary choir of the streets, backing up the youth, suggesting the public space should belong to the public. The narrative is captured in a circular chronology in a single day, from dawn to dawn.
Saturn and Beyond
The film is a 60-minute reflection on the development of transatlantic communication, ultimately connecting these networks with neural networks, and dementia
18th & Grand: The Olympic Auditorium Story
A raucous, visceral Los Angeles tale—seen through the story of a 20th Century fight palace and the remarkable woman who ran it-—reveals battles over race, gender and identity that still roil America.
Jamaika
On the outskirts of Lisbon, in Seixal, Jamaica is an extremely deprived neighbourhood of unfinished buildings, inhabited by migrants from Africa or African descendants from Angola, São Tomé and Principe and Guinea Bissau. The pandemic has been deepening the poverty and the feeling of isolation of this community, segregated and stigmatised for years. The inhabitants have mostly non-qualified jobs, which makes their economic situation even much more fragile during the pandemic, and given their housing conditions they are much more exposed to the COVID-19 health crisis.
Beirut: Eye of the Storm
It’s October 2019, and four progressive women are documenting the uprising in Beirut. They are journalist Hanine, Iraqi camerawoman Lujain, and Noel and Michelle, two artist sisters whose often-ironic songs have made them a voice for their generation. The prevailing mood is one of hope and change. But a few months later, Covid-19 has locked down the city, and all optimism seems to have evaporated.
Stray Ducks
As part of an experiment on climate change, NASA dropped 90 yellow rubber ducks into holes in Greenland’s glaciers. More than a decade later, scientists are still trying to locate the ducks, which they hoped to find scattered across the globe. Stray Ducks is the surreal and epic tale of these cute yellow toys and their mysterious disappearance. Anonymous, bobbing across the oceans, they observe human behaviour the world over. With a keen sense of irony and absurdist humour, this film takes an artistic as well as a critical perspective on social injustice and the climate crisis. (Programming Collective)
How to Make It on OnlyFans
Former glamour model Alex Sim-Wise helps people sell sexy content on the subscription website OnlyFans. When OnlyFans controversially announces a plan to ban adult content, can Alex and her protégés fight to keep their livelihoods?
Memórias de Parede
From a search for the history of his unnoted, suburban neighborhood, Luca realizes that the place where he grew up was always the same. In times of quarantine, he faces another space that has also never changed: his home. Luca finds himself trapped in a place that carries countless painful memories etched into itself. It is impossible for him to see himself beyond those memories, and, at the same time, he feels different in a place that prevents him from being so.
I Want To Study
This film is about human rights violations that took place during the Corona epidemic in Iran: a small part of the thousands of villages in this country that do not have schools. Many students in disadvantaged educational areas have to travel long distances to reach certain areas to connect to the Internet due to the lack of Internet antennas in their villages. And despite the coronavirus, they are forced to sit together in online classes.
Mosul, My Home
For many of us, when we first hear the name Mosul City, we immediately think of the brutal reign of the so-called ‘Islamic State,’ of humanitarian crisis, devastation and slow recovery. However, this film tells the story of Mosul beyond these stereotypes, examining the aftermath of war, the environment of the city and its communal places, as well as the once thriving energy of the city and its multi-ethnic inhabitants.
The Afterlight
Fragments of hundreds of films from around the world bring together an ensemble cast of actors with one thing in common: each is no longer alive. Together, they contend with a fragile existence lived solely through these traces of their work.
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Jay Nog: Something From Nothing
Something From Nothing takes you on a stand-up comedy tour during the pandemic from a comedians perspective, filmed in the parking lot of a diner in Queens, NY. The film shares the story of Jay Nog and his family during the pandemic as well as the comedians and employees who performed and worked at the diner.
The Dream in the Mirror
A documentary which features interviews with collaborators and family members of director Andrei Tarkovsky's, along with scholars of his work. Special attention is paid to his 1975 film "Mirror."
Platform
A meditative film that explores modernist architecture in Norway, spanning from the late fifties to the early nineties.
The Roots of Water
Two women—one Ashkenazi Jew from Poland and one Sephardic Jew from Algeria—meet in Brussels with the same quest: to find out what their Jewish identity means to them. Their biggest desire is to undergo the water ritual called Mikveh. But they are not welcome in a bath house being neither married nor orthodox. Nonetheless, they try to claim their heritage on a road trip and on their own Judaism.
This Is Not Our Fault
The Brazilian constitutional rupture is recurrent and lurking. In this documentary-essay, the Tupiniquim coup framework is revealed.
Freddie Mercury: In His Own Words
Documentary telling the story of the Queen frontman's life and career, from the early days of the band to their show-stopping performance at Live Aid and their dominance of music charts around the world. From Killer Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody, through to The Show Must Go On, the film uncover the stories behind the songs through archive interviews with Freddie himself.
Mezquite
Mezquite is a large tree with many virtues and is in danger due to the neglect that has been had with its species in recent years.
There's a Prison on Fire in the Forest
The animated story of a for-profit prison riot. A former prisoner describes the detailed events for profit institution, whilst taking the viewer through a recreation of the riot itself.