Coming to HBO & HBO Max today, Monday, December 6:
THE FOREVER PRISONER
Director:
Alex Gibney
World Premiere:
HBO/HBO Max (Dec 2021)
About:
The chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs), later identified as torture by those outside the agency.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Hulu this Sunday, December 5:
THE FIRST WAVE
Director:
Matthew Heineman
World Premiere:
Hamptons 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, BFI London, Busan, Hot Springs Doc, Philadelphia, Montclair, Savannah, AFI Fest
About:
A powerful look at the doctors, nurses, and patients on the frontlines during the “first wave” of COVID-19 in New York City from March to June 2020.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, December 3:
TORN
Director:
Max Lowe
World Premiere:
Telluride 2021
Select Festivals:
Camden
About:
Seventeen years after his death, the body of the director’s famed mountain climber father is discovered, and the family sets out to recover it.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, December 3:
FLEE
Director:
Jonas Poher Rasmussen
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Telluride, Toronto, New York, Karlovy Vary, Visions du Reel, ZagrebDox, Camden, Docs Against Gravity, Jerusalem, Melbourne, Göteborg, Hong Kong, Helsinki, Nordisk Panorama, Zurich, Busan, Reykjavik, El Gouna
About:
The affecting story of a former refugee who must confront the traumas of his past to move forward with his life.
I previously wrote about the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to Disney+ tomorrow, Friday, December 3:
THE RESCUE
Director:
Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
World Premiere:
Telluride 2021
Select Festivals:
Toronto, Mill Valley, Los Angeles Asian Pacific, Hot Springs Doc, Hamptons
About:
The harrowing tale of the rescue attempts of a group of 12 teenage athletes and their coach, who became stranded deep underground, as rapidly rising water filled a labyrinthine network of caves they were exploring
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to OVID.tv tomorrow, Friday, December 3:
KOSHIEN: JAPAN’S FIELD OF DREAMS
Director:
Ema Ryan Yamazaki
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2019
Select Festivals:
DMZ Docs
About:
An inside look at Japan’s popular national high school baseball championship.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, December 3:
TIGRE GENTE
Director:
Elizabeth Unger
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
About:
A Bolivian park ranger and a young Chinese journalist risk their lives to go undercover and investigate a new, deadly jaguar trade that’s sweeping South America.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to HBO & HBO Max tomorrow, Thursday, December 2:
LISTENING TO KENNY G
Director:
Penny Lane
World Premiere:
Toronto 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, IDFA, Camden, Hamptons, Philadelphia, Montclair
About:
A witty and provocative profile of Grammy-winning saxophonist Kenny G that also asks a bigger question: what makes music good or bad?
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres & VOD this Friday, December 3:
CITIZEN ASHE
Director:
Sam Pollard, Rex Miller
World Premiere:
Telluride 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Camden, Hot Springs Doc, BFI London, AFI Fest, Chicago, Virginia
About:
A portrait of the trailblazing tennis player, the first and only Black man to win Wimbledon and the US and Australian Opens, and the first Black player on the US Davis Cup team.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD this Friday, December 3:
LOVE IT WAS NOT
Director:
Maya Sarfaty
World Premiere:
Docaviv 2020
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Hot Docs
About:
The unbelievable and tragic love story of Helena, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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