Coming to theatres and VOD tomorrow, Friday, September 23:
THE AMERICAN DREAM AND OTHER FAIRY TALES
Director:
Abigail E Disney, Kathleen Hughes
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, Traverse City
About:
Abigail Disney, using her family’s story to explore how systemic injustice took hold of America’s economy, asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 23:
INVISIBLE DEMONS
Director:
Rahul Jain
World Premiere:
Cannes 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, BFI London, Zurich, Helsinki, El Gouna, Seattle, Movies That Matter, Mumbai
About:
In Delhi, a sprawling megacity where the dangers of climate change are present, not future, the filmmaker shows a world on the brink.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 23:
NOTHING COMPARES
Director:
Kathryn Ferguson
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Seattle, Hot Docs, San Francisco, Edinburgh, Indielisboa
About:
The story of Sinéad O’Connor’s phenomenal rise to worldwide fame and subsequent exile from the pop mainstream.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 23:
MY IMAGINARY COUNTRY (MI PAIS IMAGINARIO)
Director:
Patricio Guzman
World Premiere:
Cannes 2022
Select Festivals:
Toronto, Camden, Jerusalem
About:
A chronicle of the recent history of Chile, including the social unrest that started in October 2019 that led to the rewriting of its constitution.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID today, Wednesday, September 21:
GOLDA MARIA
Director:
Patrick Sobelman, Hugo Sobelman
World Premiere:
Berlin 2020
Select Festivals:
Cinéma du Réel, Jerusalem
About:
A revisitation of an 1994 interview with the filmmakers’ Holocaust survivor grandmother.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to Fandor this week:
ME TO PLAY
Director:
Jim Bernfield
World Premiere:
Slamdance 2021
Select Festivals:
Ashland, Florida
About:
As their bodies give way to Parkinson’s disease, two New York actors put their hearts into one final Off-Broadway production of Beckett’s ENDGAME.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to VOD this week:
THE STORY OF FILM: A NEW GENERATION
Director:
Mark Cousins
World Premiere:
Cannes 2021
Select Festivals:
BFI London, Chicago, Lumiere, Palm Springs, Taipei Golden Horse, Stockholm, Hong Kong, Biografilm
About:
An examination of the most powerful movie images of the last decade, including the pandemic, to create an epic and hopeful tale of cinematic innovation from around the globe.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Wednesday, September 21:
THE REAL BLING RING: HOLLYWOOD HEIST
Director:
Miles Blayden-Ryall
World Premiere:
Channel 4 UK (April 2022)
About:
A group of LA teenagers arrested in 2009 for stealing from celebrity homes inspired a media frenzy and a movie – now, two of them tell their stories in this docuseries.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Wednesday, September 21:
ESCAPE FROM KABUL
Director:
Jamie Roberts
World Premiere:
HBO broadcast (September 2022)
About:
An immersive look at 18 monumental days in August 2021, from the US withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan through the subsequent evacuation of tens of thousands of Afghan citizens from Kabul airport after the Taliban seized the city.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Peacock tomorrow, Wednesday, September 21:
SHADOWLAND
Director:
Alex Braverman, Stephen Bailey, Lindsay Eve Van Dyke
World Premiere:
Peacock (September 2022)
About:
A docuseries inspired by reporting in THE ATLANTIC in which Joe Berlinger sends documentary teams across America to embed with subjects who have rejected mainstream narratives, revealing how conspiracy theories have moved from the margins to the mainstream.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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