Category Archives: Documentary

Coming to FUSE tomorrow, Tuesday, October 18:
WHITE COAT REBELS

Director:
Greg Barker

World Premiere:
AFI Docs 2021

Select Festivals:
Cleveland

About:
This probing look inside the medical profession examines the outsized influence of Big Pharma and the courageous insiders who are pushing back against the powers that be.

Coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, October 18:
THE BOOK KEEPERS

Director:
Phil Wall

World Premiere:
Austin 2020

Select Festivals:
Napa Valley, Savannah, Chagrin Doc, DocUtah

About:
A father and son crisscross the country to fulfill a dying wish, ensure a legacy, and find solace after tragic personal loss.

Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Tuesday, October 18:
MAMA’S BOY

Director:
Laurent Bouzereau

World Premiere:
NewFest 2022

About:
Academy Award-winner Dustin Lance Black explores his upbringing and pays tribute to his mother, who became the inspiration for his activism.

Coming to PBS’s POV tonight, Monday, Oct 17:
AN ACT OF WORSHIP

Director:
Nausheen Dadabhoy

World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022

Select Festivals:
Portland, New Hampshire

About:
A lyrical portrait of the last 20 years of Muslim life in America as told through the lens of Muslims living in the United States.

Coming to theatres today, Friday, October 14:
SOPHIA

Director:
Crystal Moselle, Jon Kasbe

World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022

Select Festivals:
Mill Valley

About:
A look at the spirited pursuits of David Hanson, a restless inventor aiming to perfect the world’s most life-like AI.

Coming to theatres today, Friday, October 14:
CAT DADDIES

Director:
Mye Hoang

World Premiere:
Dallas 2021

Select Festivals:
Heartland, Seattle, Newport Beach, Hawaii, Big Sky Doc, Milwaukee, Cleveland

About:
A portrait of eight men whose lives have been changed by their love for cats.

Coming to theatres today, Friday, October 14:
SCRAP

Director:
Stacey Tenenbaum

World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2022

About:
An exploration of places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world’s scrap.

Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, October 14:
THE PICTURE TAKER

Director:
Phil Bertelsen

World Premiere:
Woodstock 2022

Select Festivals:
Montclair

About:
The story of photographer Ernest Withers, who chronicled the African American experience during Jim Crow and the birth of the Civil Rights Movement – and was also secretly an FBI informant.

Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, October 14:
SEPA: NUESTRO SEÑOR DE LOS MILAGROS

Director:
Walter Saxer

World Premiere:
Internationale Hofer Filmtage 1986

Select Festivals:
Solothurn

About:
A profile of an experimental open-air penal colony in the Peruvian Amazon.

Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, October 14:
ETERNAL SPRING

Director:
Jason Loftus

World Premiere:
Thessaloniki Doc 2022

Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, Human Rights Watch, San Francisco Doc, Krakow, deadCENTER, Melbourne, Dokufest, Ambulante, Zurich, Reyjkavik

About:
After meeting a survivor of an activist group that boldly hacked Chinese state television to protest human rights violations, an exiled illustrator recreates the events through his art.