Coming to PBS’s American Experience tomorrow, Tuesday, May 24:
PLAGUE AT THE GOLDEN GATE
Director:
Li-Shin Yu
World Premiere:
American Experience broadcast (May 2022)
About:
In San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900, a deadly outbreak of bubonic plague, and the hunt to identify its source, leads to an all-too-familiar spate of violent anti-Asian sentiment.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to NYC’s Pure Nonfiction tomorrow, Tuesday, May 24:
BITTERBRUSH
Director:
Emelie Mahdavian
World Premiere:
Telluride 2021
Select Festivals:
Visions du Réel, San Francisco, Sydney
About:
Two women set up camp at a tiny cabin and begin their season of work, to feed their dreams: to own their own livestock, to have true independence, and to start a family.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations
Coming to NYC’s Metrograph today, Friday, May 20:
THE FRENCH
Director:
William Klein
World Premiere:
Perspectives du Cinéma Français 1982
About:
An unprecedented all-access, behind-the-scenes look at the 1981 French Open.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Film Movement Plus today, Friday, May 20:
OUR TIMES
Director:
Rakshan Bani-Etemad
World Premiere:
Locarno 2002
Select Festivals:
Thessaloniki Doc, Tribeca, Gent
About:
Focused on the Iranian elections of 2002, a group of women run for office, including one who attempts a heroic but unsuccessful run for the presidency.
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New to DVD this week:
FLOOD IN THE DESERT
Director:
Rob Rapley
World Premiere:
American Experience broadcast (May 2022)
About:
The story of the 1928 St Francis Dam disaster, which cost human lives, property damage, and jeopardized plans to transform the West.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to DVD this week:
OF ANIMALS AND MEN
Director:
Lukasz Czajka
World Premiere:
Krakow 2019
Select Festivals:
Docudays UA, Guangzhou Doc, Miami Jewish
About:
The story of the Żabiński family, the long-standing keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, where, during WWII, they were able to shelter hundreds of people, mainly Jews, from the Nazis.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to DVD this week:
KURT VONNEGUT: UNSTUCK IN TIME
Director:
Robert B Weide, Don Argott
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
About:
Decades in the making, this biography of Kurt Vonnegut covers his years as a struggling writer to his eventual superstardom.
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New to DVD this week:
UPPERCASE PRINT
Director:
Radu Jude
World Premiere:
Berlin 2020
Select Festivals:
Thessaloniki, Indielisboa, Molodist Kyiv, Hamburg, Moscow, Taipei
About:
A hybrid exploring life in Ceaușescu’s surveillance state through the story of a teenager who began drawing protest slogans in public spaces in 1981.
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Coming to The WORLD Channel’s America ReFramed series tomorrow, Thursday, May 19:
GEOGRAPHIES OF KINSHIP
Director:
Deann Borshay Liem
World Premiere:
CAAMFest 2019
Select Festivals:
Asian/Asian American fests in Austin, Dallas, Philadelphia, San Diego, Seattle, Los Angeles
About:
The complex personal histories of four adult adoptees born in South Korea are interwoven with the rise of the country’s global adoption program.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Netflix today, Wednesday, May 18:
CYBER HELL: EXPOSING AN INTERNET HORROR
Director:
Cho Jin-seong
World Premiere:
Netflix (May 2022)
About:
Anonymous and exploitative, a network of online chat rooms ran rampant with sex crimes, prompting a tenacious hunt by Korean investigators to take down its operators.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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