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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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New to DVD this week:
DEAD MAN’S SWITCH: A CRYPTO MYSTERY
Director:
Sheona McDonald
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2021
Select Festivals:
DOXA, Melbourne Doc, Calgary, Rocky Mountain Women’s
About:
A riveting cryptocurrency thriller unraveling the story of a Canadian blockchain wizard who mysteriously died on his honeymoon in India and the fate of his investors’ $200 million.
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AGAINST THE TIDE
Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different paths to provide for their struggling families.
Director/Producer:
Sarvnik Kaur
Producer:
Koval Bhatia
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
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New to VOD this week:
UPHEAVAL: THE JOURNEY OF MENACHEM BEGIN
Director:
Jonathan Gruber
World Premiere:
Heartland 2020
Select Festivals:
Jewish fests in Las Vegas, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, and Pittsburgh
About:
A portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning former Israeli Prime Minister.
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20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities.
Director/Producer:
Mstyslav Chernov
Producers:
Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath, Derl McCrudden
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
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