Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, December 16:
NELLY & NADINE
Director:
Magnus Gertten
World Premiere:
Berlin 2022
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Thessaloniki Doc, Docs Against Gravity, Outfest, NewFest, Edinburgh, Movies That Matter, Melbourne, Palm Springs
About:
Nelly and Nadine meet in Ravensbrück concentration camp and spend the rest of their lives together – decades later, Nelly’s granddaughter goes in search of clues.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, December 16:
CHILDREN OF THE MIST
Director:
Diem Ha Le
World Premiere:
IDFA 2021
Select Festivals:
Docaviv, New Directors/New Films, Docpoint, Thessaloniki Doc, Cinéma du Réel, Visions du Réel, Seattle, San Francisco, Taiwan Doc, DOXA, Docs Against Gravity, BelDocs, Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong, DMZ Docs, Astra, Bergen, Hanoi
About:
School has given 12-year-old Di a glimpse of the outside world and its progressive values, but in her insular community, in the misty mountains of North Vietnam, the tradition of child bride kidnapping is still alive.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID today, Thursday, December 15:
US KIDS
Director:
Kim A Snyder
World Premiere:
Sundance 2020
Select Festivals:
Sheffield, Doc Edge, Mountainfilm, Full Frame, Miami, Martha’s Vineyard, NewportFilm, Calgary, GlobeDocs, Bergen, Hamptons, Mill Valley
About:
The young survivors of the Parkland school shooting are followed over a transformative year and a half.
My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to OVID today, Wednesday December 14:
SEXY BABY
Director:
Jill Bauer, Ronna Gradus
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2012
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Hot Docs, Traverse City, Newport Beach, Citizen Jane
About:
A look at the impact of our hypersexualized culture on girls and women.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID today, Wednesday, December 14:
BEST KEPT SECRET
Director:
Samantha Buck
World Premiere:
Independent Film Festival Boston 2013
Select Festivals:
Montclair, AFI Docs
About:
A look at a driven teacher of special needs students.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
New to DVD this week:
EL GRAN MOVIMIENTO
Director:
Kiro Russo
World Premiere:
Venice 2021
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, New York, Rotterdam, San Sebastián, Hamburg, Gent, Vienna, Geneva, Göteborg
About:
A supernatural hybrid of dream and reality, in which a miner in an oxygen-starved metropolis is haunted by nightmares and a shamanistic ritual is the only way out.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Wednesday, December 14 and to Netflix this Friday, December 16:
THE VOLCANO: RESCUE FROM WHAKAARI
Director:
Rory Kennedy
World Premiere:
Hamptons 2022
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Montclair, AFI Fest
About:
A riveting retelling of the survivors and rescuers from the 2019 New Zealand White Island volcano disaster.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to ESPN’s 30 for 30 tonight, Tuesday, December 13:
JEANETTE LEE VS
Director:
Ursula Liang
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2022
About:
Asian American trailblazer Jeanette Lee, aka Black Widow, ruled pool halls in the 1990s and early 2000s; now she reflects on her historic legacy in the face of a recent cancer diagnosis.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, December 13:
RIOTSVILLE, USA
Director:
Sierra Pettengill
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
New Directors/New Films, True/False, CPH:DOX, Seattle, Freep, San Francisco, Traverse City
About:
Footage shot by the media and government of a fictional town built by the US military explores the militarization of the police and the reaction of a nation to the uprisings of the late 1960s, creating a counter-narrative to a critical moment in American history.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to DVD via the Criterion Collection today, Tuesday, December 13:
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
Director:
Todd Haynes
World Premiere:
Cannes 2021
Select Festivals:
New York Film Festival, Telluride, San Sebastian, Zurich, BFI London, Chicago
About:
An exploration of how The Velvet Underground became a cultural touchstone representing a range of contradictions.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
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