Festival:
The 70th Locarno Film Festival
Dates:
August 2-12
About:
This Swiss event, a favorite of cinephiles and critics, and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, this year offers 100 features, among which are just over 40 documentaries or hybrids. Continue reading
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Coming to theatres today, Friday, July 28:
AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL
Directors:
Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk
Premiere:
Sundance 2017
Select Festivals:
Nantucket, Cannes, AFI Docs, Biografilm
About:
The follow-up to the Academy Award-winning AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
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Coming to theatres today, Wednesday, July 26:
RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD
Directors:
Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana
Premiere:
Sundance 2017
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, Edinburgh, Thessaloniki Doc, Cleveland, Florida, DOXA, DOK Fest Munich, Docs Against Gravity, Seattle, Big Sky Doc, Biografilm, Sydney, AFI Docs, In-Edit, Traverse City
About:
A celebration of the unheralded Native roots of popular music.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
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Festival:
The 40th Asian American International Film Festival
Dates:
July 26-August 5
About:
The first and longest-running Asian/Asian American fest presents more than 25 new features – docs making up half that number. Continue reading
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Festival:
The 13th Traverse City Film Festival
Dates:
July 25-30
About:
Approximately 100 features screen at this event founded by Michael Moore, including over 40 feature docs. Continue reading
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Coming to theatres and to VOD via Netflix tomorrow, Friday, July 14:
CHASING CORAL
Director:
Jeff Orlowski
Premiere:
Sundance 2017
Select Festivals:
SXSW, Hot Docs, Sundance London, San Francisco, Boulder, Seattle, Sydney
About:
A race to chronicle the climate change-driven destruction of coral reefs around the world.
I previously profiled the doc before Sundance
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Festival:
The 34th Jerusalem Film Festival
Dates:
July 13-23
About:
Approximately 100 new and recent features screen at the Israeli event, with a third representing nonfiction work. Continue reading
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Coming to theatres today, Wednesday, July 12:
500 YEARS
Director:
Pamela Yates
Premiere:
Sundance 2017
Select Festivals:
Nantucket, Human Rights Geneva, Human Rights Watch London, Ashland, Full Frame, Seattle, Human Rights Watch New York
About:
The completion of a 35-year trilogy focused on the resistance of Guatemala’s indigenous Mayan population.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
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Coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, July 11:
ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS
Director:
Michał Marczak
Premiere:
Sundance 2016
Select Festivals:
True/False, IDFA, CPH:DOX, San Francisco, Hot Docs, Karlovy Vary, Sarajevo, Bergen, Zurich, Singapore, Stockholm, Full Frame, Ambulante
About:
A hybrid profile of Warsaw twentysomethings living in the now.
I profiled the film before Sundance here.
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Coming to PBS’s POV this coming Monday, July 10:
LAST MEN IN ALEPPO
Director:
Feras Fayyad
Co-Director:
Steen Johannessen
Premiere:
Sundance 2017
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Full Frame, Sarasota, Movies That Matter, Istanbul, Nashville
About:
A chronicle the lives of Aleppo’s White Helmets, the city’s volunteer civil defense team.
My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.
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