Continuing the rundown of this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition:
Philip Cox’s investigation of street-level crime and corruption in India, THE BENGALI DETECTIVE, a UK/Indian/US co-production.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE BENGALI DETECTIVE
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: HELL AND BACK AGAIN
My spotlight on this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition continues with Danfung Dennis’ HELL AND BACK AGAIN, about a wounded soldier’s haunting experience of war in Afghanistan, a UK/US co-production.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: AN AFRICAN ELECTION
Next up in the World Cinema Documentary Competition is the first of three films that also screened recently at IDFA: Director Jarreth Merz and Co-Director Kevin Merz’s in-depth look at the Ghanaian political process, AN AFRICAN ELECTION, a Swiss/US co-production.
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Special Screening: ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE
Opening the winter season of NYC’s Stranger Than Fiction next Tuesday, January 11: ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE
I wrote about Rob Lemkin & Thet Sambath’s 2010 Sundance World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize winning film upon its theatrical release – for my take click here.
If you’re in the NYC area, go to STF for another chance to see the film on the big screen, and for the post-screening Q&A with director Rob Lemkin.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: KNUCKLE
Moving on to this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition, I’ll begin with Ireland/UK’s KNUCKLE, director Ian Palmer’s longitudinal profile of two quarreling Irish clans.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
The final film in this year’s US Documentary Competition, and the third music-oriented one, Michael Rapaport’s BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, is the definitive portrait of the groundbreaking hip-hop group.
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On DVD: CATFISH
Available on DVD starting today: CATFISH
I’ve previously written about Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman’s controversial and compulsively watchable 2010 Sundance film here.
Buy the DVD here.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: SING YOUR SONG
The second of three musician-related projects in the US Documentary Competition, Susanne Rostock’s Harry Belafonte biography, SING YOUR SONG, covers far more than the man’s performing career, focusing in large part on his steadfast activism across numerous social justice issues.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: TROUBADOURS
The last three films in the 2011 Sundance US Documentary Competition all involve musicians, beginning with Morgan Neville’s TROUBADOURS, a look back at the emergence of the singer-songwriter in the 1970s LA music scene.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: HOT COFFEE
Next up, US Documentary Competition title HOT COFFEE, Susan Saladoff’s searing indictment of the influence of corporate America on our civil justice system.
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