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
Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Tuesday, December 6:
UNVEILED: SURVIVING LA LUZ DEL MUNDO
Director:
Jennifer Tiexiera
World Premiere:
HBO/HBO Max (December 2022)
About:
A docuseries exploring the horrifying, yet relatively unknown story of the Christian church La Luz del Mundo and the sexual abuse that scores of members, many of them minors, say they have suffered at the hands of its successive leaders, known as the “Apostles.”
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, December 6:
BANKSY MOST WANTED
Director:
Aurélia Rouvier, Seamus Haley
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, El Gouna, Philadelphia, Warsaw, Mill Valley, Sidewalk, Encounters
About:
The ultimate film about the mysterious rebel artist.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Monday, December 5:
BROADWAY RISING
Director:
Amy Rice
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
About:
Charting the Broadway community’s journey from the almost overnight shut down due to the pandemic to the paths essential theater workers took on their road back to the stage.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, December 2:
TANTURA
Director:
Alon Schwarz
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, It’s All True, Cleveland, Docaviv, Hong Kong, Hot Springs Doc, Doclisboa, Philadelphia
About:
In 1948, when the State of Israel was established, hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed, with their inhabitants killed or exiled. The film focuses on one village: Tantura, bringing to light Israel’s founding narrative and its society’s inability to come to terms with its dark past.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
what (not) to doc 