Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, December 9:
TO THE END
Director:
Rachel Lears
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Tribeca, Doclisboa, Cleveland, Wisconsin, Ji.hlava, Hawai’i,
About:
Stopping the climate crisis is a question of political courage, and the clock is ticking. Over three years of turbulence and crisis, four remarkable young women of color fight for a Green New Deal, igniting a historic shift in US climate politics.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres and VOD tomorrow, Friday, December 9:
I AM DB COOPER
Director:
TJ Regan
World Premiere:
Seattle 2022
About:
Two bounty hunters meet an old man claiming to be hijacker DB Cooper. Can they help him dig up the cash he hid half a century ago? Documentary footage blends with period reenactments to tell the tangled tale.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, December 9:
LOUDMOUTH
Director:
Josh Alexander
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
About:
A disruptive spotlight on Reverend Al Sharpton – the pastoral prodigy turned political firebrand turned media establishment figure.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to NatGeo tomorrow, Thursday, December 8, to Disney+ this Friday, December 9, and to Hulu this Sunday, December 11:
RETROGRADE
Director:
Matthew Heineman
World Premiere:
Telluride 2022
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Busan, Hamptons, Vancouver, Antenna Doc, Heartland, Bergen, Philadelphia, Montclair, Cork, Denver
About:
The story of the last months of the 20-year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan officers they trained.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID tomorrow, Thursday, December 8:
MOTHER, I AM SUFFOCATING. THIS IS MY LAST FILM ABOUT YOU.
Director:
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
World Premiere:
Berlin 2019
Select Festivals:
Sheffield, Documentary Fortnight, Docaviv, Encounters, Durban
About:
A personal essay about the filmmaker’s relationship to his home continent, Africa.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID today, Wednesday, December 7:
WESTERN
Directors:
Bill Ross, Turner Ross
World Premiere:
Sundance 2015
Select Festivals:
Nantucket, Hot Docs, San Francisco, Full Frame, Sarasota, Dallas, Ashland, Maryland, Montclair
About:
Towns on both sides of the Rio Grande face the threat of drug cartels.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
New to DVD this week:
THE INVADERS
Director:
Prichard Smith
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2015
About:
Filling in a lost chapter of civil rights history, a look at the generation of radicals that emerged in Memphis in 1967.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, December 6:
YOUNG PLATO
Director:
Neasa Ní Chianáin, Declan McGrath
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
Select Festivals:
Dublin, Thessaloniki Doc, Biografilm, CPH:DOX
About:
A visionary headmaster at a Catholic primary school in Belfast teaches ancient Greek wisdom as an antidote for pessimism, violence and historical despair.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, December 6:
IL BUCO
Director:
Michelangelo Frammartino
World Premiere:
D’A Film Festival 2021
Select Festivals:
Venice, New York, Busan, Beijing, Tokyo, BFI London, Thessaloniki, Mar del Plata, Vienna,
About:
A hybrid docufiction recreation of a 1961 speleological expedition to measure Europe’s deepest cave in Italy’s Calabria region.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to OVID this week:
BIG SONIA
Directors:
Leah Warshawski, Todd Soliday
Premiere:
Napa Valley 2016
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Seattle, Cleveland, Sun Valley, Big Sky Doc, Milwaukee, Durban, Jewish fests in San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Palm beach, Charlotte, Kansas City, Southampton, and Miami
About:
An intimate and at times humorous portrait of an unstoppable Holocaust survivor.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
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