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Lorna Tucker profiles the uncompromising British designer.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
UK
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2018 Sundance Docs in Focus: WESTWOOD: PUNK, ICON, ACTIVIST
Lorna Tucker profiles the uncompromising British designer.
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2018 Sundance Docs in Focus: THIS IS HOME
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Alexandra Shiva reveals the experiences of newly arrived Syrian refugees in Baltimore.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
USA/Jordan
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2018 Sundance Docs in Focus: SHIRKERS
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Sandi Tan recounts the tangled mystery of what happened to her first feature film.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
USA (about Singapore)
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On TV: UNREST
Coming to PBS’s Independent Lens this coming Monday, January 8:
UNREST
Director:
Jennifer Brea
Premiere:
Sundance 2017
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, Sheffield, CPH:DOX, SXSW, RiverRun, Cleveland, Nashville, New Zealand, Melbourne
Notable Recognition:
The doc was shortlisted for the Academy Awards.
About:
A personal and candid look at life with a debilitating and widely misunderstood medical condition.
My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.
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2018 Sundance Docs in Focus: A POLAR YEAR
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Samuel Collardey chronicles the culture clash facing a Danish teacher on assignment in Greenland.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
France
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2018 Sundance Docs in Focus: OUR NEW PRESIDENT
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Maxim Pozdorovkin reveals American politics through the distinct, and decidedly warped, lens of the Russian newsmedia.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
Russia/USA
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2018 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE OSLO DIARIES
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Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan take an unprecedented behind the scenes look at the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
Israel/Canada
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2018 Sundance Docs in Focus: OF FATHERS AND SONS
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Talal Derki embeds with a radical jihadist and his family in Syria.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
Germany/Syria/Lebanon/Qatar
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2018 Sundance Docs in Focus: MATANGI/MAYA/MIA
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Stephen Loveridge offers an insider perspective on the life and career of the popular musician.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
Sri Lanka/United Kingdom/USA
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2018 Sundance Docs in Focus: GENESIS 2.0
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Christian Frei and Maxim Arbugaev unearth efforts to resurrect the wooly mammoth.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
Switzerland
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