Category Archives: Sundance

Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, October 21:
BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER

Director:
Nina Menkes

World Premiere:
Sundance 2022

Select Festivals:
Berlin, CPH:DOX, IDFA, Karlovy Vary, Thessaloniki Doc, BFI London, Jeonju, Istanbul, Beldocs, Docaviv, Frameline, Encounters, Bergen, Ambulante

About:
Based on Nina Menkes’ acclaimed talk “Sex & Power: The Visual Language of Cinema,” this is a mesmerizing journey into how shot design intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women.

Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, October 21:
ALL THAT BREATHES

Director:
Shaunak Sen

World Premiere:
Sundance 2022

Select Festivals:
Cannes, New York, Docaviv, IDFA, BFI London, Busan, Krakow, Sydney, Dokufest, Hong Kong, Camden, Zurich, Athens, Vancouver, Hamptons, Hot Springs Doc, Bergen, Rome, Taipei Golden Horse, Stockholm, Montclair

About:
Against the darkening backdrop of Delhi’s apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.

Coming to theatres today, Monday, October 10:
TAMING THE GARDEN

Director:
Salomé Jashi

World Premiere:
Sundance 2021

Select Festivals:
Berlin, CPH:DOX, New Directors/New Films, Shanghai, Cinéma du Réel

About:
An artful look at the unusual disruption caused by the removal and transport of several massive trees from small Georgian villages.

I profiled the doc before Sundance here.

Coming to theatres today, Friday, October 7:
LAST FLIGHT HOME

Director:
Ondi Timoner

World Premiere:
Sundance 2022

Select Festivals:
Telluride, BFI London, Woodstock

About:
An examination of Eli Timoner’s life and intentional death and his family’s emotional turmoil as they grapple with his decision to end his own life.

Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, October 4:
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.

Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 30:
I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE

Director:
Reid Davenport

World Premiere:
Sundance 2022

Select Festivals:
True/False, San Francisco, Hot Docs, Sydney

About:
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into an unflinching meditation on freakdom, (in)visibility, and the pursuit of individual agency.

Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 30:
SIRENS

Director:
Rita Baghdadi

World Premiere:
Sundance 2022

Select Festivals:
True/False, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Thessaloniki Doc, BFI Flare, Cleveland, Sun Valley, Florida, BAFICI, Krakow, Guadalajara, Sydney, Frameline, Outfest, BAMcinemaFest

About:
On the outskirts of Beirut, Lilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East’s first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality, and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.

Streaming on Showtime tomorrow, Friday, September 30 and coming to TV on Showtime on Sunday, October 2:
NOTHING COMPARES

Director:
Kathryn Ferguson

Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Seattle, Hot Docs, San Francisco, Edinburgh, Indielisboa

About:
The story of Sinéad O’Connor’s phenomenal rise to worldwide fame and subsequent exile from the pop mainstream.

Coming to theatres and VOD tomorrow, Friday, September 23:
THE AMERICAN DREAM AND OTHER FAIRY TALES

Director:
Abigail E Disney, Kathleen Hughes

World Premiere:
Sundance 2022

Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, Traverse City

About:
Abigail Disney, using her family’s story to explore how systemic injustice took hold of America’s economy, asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less.