Coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, January 10:
THE EXILES
Director:
Ben Klein, Violet Columbus
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
IDFA, San Francisco, Cleveland, Jeonju, Hot Docs, Bergen, Philadelphia, Taipei Golden Horse
About:
Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre in order to find closure on an abandoned film she began shooting in 1989.
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SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD
In the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.
Director:
Anna Hints
Producer:
Marianne Ostrat
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
More Info:
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Coming to PBS’s POV today, Monday, January 9:
I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE
Director:
Reid Davenport
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
True/False, San Francisco, Hot Docs, Sydney
About:
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into an unflinching meditation on freakdom, (in)visibility, and the pursuit of individual agency.
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PIANOFORTE
Young pianists take part in the legendary International Chopin Piano Competition. A unique chance of a lifetime, portrayed from backstage and set to Chopin’s music.
Director:
Jakub Piątek
Producer:
Maciej Kubicki
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
More Info:
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MILISUTHANDO
Set in past, present, and future South Africa — an invitation into a poetic, memory-driven exploration of love, intimacy, race, and belonging by the filmmaker, who grew up during apartheid but didn’t know it was happening until it was over.
Director:
Milisuthando Bongela
Producer:
Marion Isaacs
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
More Info:
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THE LONGEST GOODBYE
Social isolation affects millions of people, even Mars-bound astronauts. A savvy NASA psychologist is tasked with protecting these daring explorers.
Director/Producer:
Ido Mizrahy
Producers:
Nir Sa’ar, Paul Cadieux
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
More Info:
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IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.
Director:
Ella Glendining
Producer:
Janine Marmot
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
More Info:
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IRON BUTTERFLIES
In summer 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turned into a 12 square kilometer crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel was found in the pilot’s body, implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished.
Director:
Roman Liubyi
Producers:
Andrii Kotliar, Volodymyr Tykhyy, David Armati Lechner, Isabelle Bertolone, Trini Götze
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
More Info:
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FANTASTIC MACHINE
From the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity’s unique obsession with the camera’s image and the social consequences that lay ahead.
Directors/Producers:
Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
More Info:
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THE ETERNAL MEMORY
Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.
Director/Producer:
Maite Alberdi
Producers:
Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Rocío Jadue
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
More Info:
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