Festival:
The 47th Toronto International Film Festival
Dates:
September 8-18
About:
This world-class Fall cinema event returns closer to its pre-pandemic numbers, offering 30 feature docs or hybrids among its approximately 200 presentations.
Category Archives: Film Festivals
Toronto 2022: Documentary Overview
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Overviews, Recommendations
Telluride 2022: Documentary Overview
Festival:
The 49th Telluride Film Festival
Dates:
September 2-5
About:
The US film industry will be flocking to this Colorado cinephile retreat this weekend, where once again nonfiction makes up well over 60% of its new feature presentations.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Overviews, Recommendations
Venice 2022: Documentary Overview
Festival:
The 79th Venice International Film Festival
Dates:
August 31-September 10
About:
Twenty documentaries appear as part of the approximately 75 feature offerings of this premier Italian event, while its autonomous sidebars present 14 docs among their 38 feature presentations, including the following.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Overviews, Recommendations
On TV/DVD: FAYA DAYI
Coming to PBS’s POV tonight, Monday, August 29 and to DVD via Criterion Collection tomorrow, Tuesday, August 30:
FAYA DAYI
Director:
Jessica Beshir
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, BlackStar, True/False, Full Frame, Visions du Reel, Seattle, New Directors/New Films, Rotterdam, Melbourne
Notable Recognition:
The doc was shortlisted for the Academy Awards.
About:
A poetic, sensorial journey into the highlands of Harar in eastern Ethiopia, the birthplace of khat.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
On DVD/VOD: THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE
Coming to DVD and VOD today, Tuesday, August 23:
THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE
Director:
Iryna Tsilyk
World Premiere:
Sundance 2020
Select Festivals:
Berlin, IDFA, Hot Docs, Doc Fortnight, Thessaloniki Doc, ZagrebDox, Docs Against Gravity, Biografilm, Docudays UA, Reykjavik, Zurich, Dokufest, Adelaide, Seattle
About:
A Ukrainian family processes life in a war zone by making films about their experience.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
In Theatres: THREE MINUTES — A LENGTHENING
Coming to theatres today, Friday, August 19:
THREE MINUTES — A LENGTHENING
Director:
Bianca Stigter
World Premiere:
Venice 2021
Select Festivals:
Sundance, Toronto, IDFA, DOC NYC, Philadelphia, Göteborg, Thessaloniki Doc, Provincetown, Sydney, Cleveland, Docs Against Gravity
About:
A home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland – the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust – is examined to unravel the stories hidden in the celluloid.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
In Theatres: THE TERRITORY
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, August 19:
THE TERRITORY
Director:
Alex Pritz
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
True/False, CPH:DOX, It’s All True, Docs Against Gravity, Philadelphia Environmental, Jerusalem, Movies That Matter, Cleveland, Seattle, Sydney
About:
When a network of Brazilian farmers seizes a protected area of the Amazon rainforest, a young Indigenous leader and his mentor must fight back in defense of the land and the people living deep within the forest.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Streaming: SILVERLAKE LIFE: THE VIEW FROM HERE
Coming to OVID this Friday, August 19:
SILVERLAKE LIFE: THE VIEW FROM HERE
Director:
Peter Friedman, Tom Joslin
World Premiere:
Sundance 1993
About:
A video diary of life with AIDS, told with guts and humor by longtime lovers Tom Joslin and Mark Massi, celebrates the power of love in the face of a devastating illness.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
On TV & Streaming: THE PRINCESS
Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Saturday, August 13:
THE PRINCESS
Director:
Ed Perkins
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
Biografilm
About:
Princess Diana’s story is told exclusively through contemporaneous archive, creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death, illuminating the profound impact she had, and demonstrating how the public’s attitude to the monarchy was, and still is, shaped by these events.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Special Screening: RIOTSVILLE, USA
Coming to NYC’s Rooftop Films tomorrow, Saturday, August 13:
RIOTSVILLE, USA
Director:
Sierra Pettengill
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
New Directors/New Films, True/False, CPH:DOX, Seattle, Freep, San Francisco, Traverse City
About:
Footage shot by the media and government of a fictional town built by the US military explores the militarization of the police and the reaction of a nation to the uprisings of the late 1960s, creating a counter-narrative to a critical moment in American history.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Sundance
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