Coming to theatres today, Friday, April 1:
THE BUSINESS OF BIRTH CONTROL
Director:
Abby Epstein
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
Select Festivals:
Miami
About:
The team behind THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN explore the controversial secret history of the birth control pill.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, April 1:
ON THE DIVIDE
Director:
Leah Galant, Maya Cueva
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
Select Festivals:
New Orleans, Human Rights Watch, Watch Docs, St Louis, Tallgrass, Hot Springs Doc, Heartland, SF Latino, Boston Latino, Woods Hole
About:
A look at the lives of three Latinx people in McAllen TX, whose different beliefs come to a head at the last abortion clinic on the US/Mexico border.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Film Movement Plus today, Friday, April 1:
WALCHENSEE FOREVER
Director:
Janna Ji Wonders
World Premiere:
Berlin 2020
Select Festivals:
Thessaloniki Doc, Biografilm, Tempo Doc, Tallinn Black Nights, Taiwan Doc
About:
A personal exploration of the filmmaker’s family history, from Bavaria to Mexico, San Francisco to India.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, April 1:
WATERMAN
Director:
Isaac Halasima
World Premiere:
Hawaii 2021
About:
A portrait of Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, the trailblazing father of modern-day surfing and five-time Olympic medalist.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, April 1:
BABI YAR. CONTEXT
Director:
Sergei Loznitsa
World Premiere:
Cannes 2021
Select Festivals:
Karlovy Vary, BFI London, Jerusalem, Melbourne, Chicago, Stockholm
About:
A reconstruction of the massacre of more than 30,000 Jews by Nazi troops and Ukrainian police in September 1941.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to OVID this week:
LOURDES
Director:
Alban Teurlai, Thierry Demaiziere
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2019
Select Festivals:
Docville, Hof
About:
A portrait of the French pilgrimage site.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Netflix today, Wednesday, March 30:
TRUST NO ONE: THE HUNT FOR THE CRYPTO KING
Director:
Luke Sewell
World Premiere:
Netflix (March 2022)
About:
When the young founder of a collapsing cryptocurrency exchange dies unexpectedly, irate investors suspect there’s more to his death than meets the eye.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to OVID today, Wednesday, March 30:
INTO THE NIGHT: PORTRAITS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Director:
Helen Whitney
Premiere:
FilmColumbia 2017
Select Festivals:
Austin, Hamptons Take 2 Docs
About:
Nine diverse perspectives on dying, death, and the afterlife.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, March 29:
NORTH BY CURRENT
Director:
Angelo Madsen Minax
World Premiere:
Berlin 2021
Select Festivals:
Tribeca, Sheffield, Krakow, Melbourne, AFI Docs, Camden, Frameline, Outfest, Sidewalk, Freep, Doclisboa, Montclair
About:
In this personal essay about motherhood, grieving, and transgender masculinity, the unexplained death of his niece leads the director back to his family.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, March 29:
WHO WE ARE: A CHRONICLE OF RACISM IN AMERICA
Director:
Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler
World Premiere:
SXSW 2021
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, AFI Fest, Seattle, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Woodstock
About:
ACLU lawyer Jeffery Robinson’s shattering talk on the history of US anti-Black racism is interwoven with archival footage, interviews, and Robinson’s story, exploring the legacy of white supremacy and our collective responsibility to overcome it.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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