Author Archives: basiltsiokos

Coming to the Smithsonian Channel tomorrow, Sunday, May 1:
THE COLOR OF CARE

Director:
Yance Ford

World Premiere:
Smithsonian Channel broadcast (May 2022)

About:
A chronicle of how people of color suffer from systemically substandard healthcare in the United States, an inequity whose tragic consequences were witnessed with COVID-19.

Coming to Film Movement Plus today, Friday, April 29:
MOLECULES

Director:
Andrea Segre

World Premiere:
Venice 2020

Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, Visions du Reel, Docs Against Gravity, Vancouver

About:
In February 2020, locked down in Venice, his late father’s hometown, the grieving filmmaker—and the city—confront the fragilities of their foundations, finding extraordinary beauty in the powerful presence of absence.

Coming to OVID.tv today, Friday, April 29:
THE TROUBLES WE’VE SEEN

Director:
Marcel Ophüls

World Premiere:
Locarno 1994

Select Festivals:
New York, Berlin, Chicago

About:
An exploration of the ethical challenges of war reporting, shot primarily during the siege of Sarajevo in 1993, examining attitudes toward war in the Western media, and in the societies they inform.

Coming to MUBI today, Friday, April 29:
FUTURA

Director:
Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher

World Premiere:
Cannes 2021

Select Festivals:
Toronto, New York, IDFA, Vienna

About:
A collective exploration of what youth think about the future, through a series of interviews filmed during a long journey across Italy.

Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, April 29:
HELLO, BOOKSTORE

Director:
AB Zax

World Premiere:
Berkshire 2021

About:
In the shadow of the pandemic, a small town rallies to protect a beloved local bookstore. 

Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, April 29:
THE WILL TO SEE

Director:
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Marc Roussel

World Premiere:
Rome 2021

Select Festivals:
New York Jewish

About:
Philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Lévy bears witness to and reports from hotspots around the world disrupted by war and geopolitical disasters.

Coming to Film Movement Plus tomorrow, Friday, April 29:
OECONOMIA

Director:
Carmen Losmann

World Premiere:
Berlin 2020

Select Festivals:
IDFA, Zurich, Cologne, Ji.hlava

About:
A multilayered quest to fathom the workings of the capitalist system.

Coming to theatres this Friday, April 29:
FIDDLER’S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN

Director:
Daniel Raim

World Premiere:
Palm Springs 2022 (cancelled)

Select Festivals:
Miami Jewish, Toronto Jewish, Atlanta Jewish, Seattle Jewish, Rehoboth Beach

About:
The story behind director Norman Jewison’s quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit FIDDLER ON THE ROOF as a wide-screen epic.

Coming to theatres in a new restoration this Friday, April 29:
THE WOBBLIES

Director:
Stewart Bird, Deborah Shaffer

World Premiere:
New York Film Festival 1979

About:
The story of radical labor union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), better known as the Wobblies, which championed the formation of “one big union” for all unskilled laborers, regardless of their race and gender.