Coming to DVD and VOD next Tuesday, January 24: HELL AND BACK AGAIN
Danfung Dennis picked up two awards from his documentary feature debut about a soldier’s return from war, which premiered at Sundance last year. Its run on the festival circuit included stops at Full Frame, Hot Docs, Sheffield, Edinburgh, and Silverdocs, and it had a limited theatrical release last Summer. It made the Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary.
I wrote about the film before Sundance here.
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Beginning the second half of the 2012 Documentary Premieres: Mark Kitchell’s expansive chronicle of environmental activism, A FIERCE GREEN FIRE
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Marking the end of the first half of this year’s Documentary Premieres: Rory Kennedy’s portrait of her mother, ETHEL
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An often misunderstood learning disability is the focus of the next title screening in Documentary Premieres: James Redford’s THE D WORD: UNDERSTANDING DYSLEXIA
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Next in Documentary Premieres: BONES BRIGADE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Stacy Peralta’s look back at his seminal 1980s skateboarding team.
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This doc-by-doc look at this year’s Sundance line-up shifts to the Documentary Premieres section: ABOUT FACE, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ look at the original supermodels and their thoughts on beauty and aging.
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Wrapping up this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition: Swedish/UK film SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN, Malik Bendjelloul’s investigation into a musical mystery.
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Nearing the end of the World Cinema Documentary Competition brings us to the fourth of four films in the section that also screened at IDFA: PUTIN’S KISS, Danish director Lise Birk Pedersen’s cautionary look at youth, idealism, nationalism, and politics in Russia.
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Heading into the homestretch with the World Cinema Documentary Competition: PAYBACK, from Canada’s Jennifer Baichwal, adapts Margart Atwood’s bestseller by taking a multi-tiered approach to exploring the concept of debt.
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The World Cinema Documentary Competition heads to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, care of Israeli director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz: THE LAW IN THESE PARTS explores the unique system of military law that has been developed to adjudicate an occupied population.
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