Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 23:
YOUNG PLATO
Director:
Neasa Ní Chianáin, Declan McGrath
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
Select Festivals:
Dublin, Thessaloniki Doc, Biografilm, CPH:DOX
About:
A visionary headmaster at a Catholic primary school in Belfast teaches ancient Greek wisdom as an antidote for pessimism, violence and historical despair.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 23:
WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND
Director:
Iliana Sosa
World Premiere:
SXSW 2022
Select Festivals:
Full Frame, MoMI First Look, Guanajuato, Camden, RiverRun, Tallgrass, Thin Line, Milwaukee, Latinx fests in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Austin, and Silver Spring
About:
A gentle love letter to farmworkers, mutual caregivers, and transnational families through the filmmaker’s portrait of her grandfather.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 23:
INVISIBLE DEMONS
Director:
Rahul Jain
World Premiere:
Cannes 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, BFI London, Zurich, Helsinki, El Gouna, Seattle, Movies That Matter, Mumbai
About:
In Delhi, a sprawling megacity where the dangers of climate change are present, not future, the filmmaker shows a world on the brink.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 23:
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.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 23:
MY IMAGINARY COUNTRY (MI PAIS IMAGINARIO)
Director:
Patricio Guzman
World Premiere:
Cannes 2022
Select Festivals:
Toronto, Camden, Jerusalem
About:
A chronicle of the recent history of Chile, including the social unrest that started in October 2019 that led to the rewriting of its constitution.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID today, Wednesday, September 21:
GOLDA MARIA
Director:
Patrick Sobelman, Hugo Sobelman
World Premiere:
Berlin 2020
Select Festivals:
Cinéma du Réel, Jerusalem
About:
A revisitation of an 1994 interview with the filmmakers’ Holocaust survivor grandmother.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to Fandor this week:
ME TO PLAY
Director:
Jim Bernfield
World Premiere:
Slamdance 2021
Select Festivals:
Ashland, Florida
About:
As their bodies give way to Parkinson’s disease, two New York actors put their hearts into one final Off-Broadway production of Beckett’s ENDGAME.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to VOD this week:
THE STORY OF FILM: A NEW GENERATION
Director:
Mark Cousins
World Premiere:
Cannes 2021
Select Festivals:
BFI London, Chicago, Lumiere, Palm Springs, Taipei Golden Horse, Stockholm, Hong Kong, Biografilm
About:
An examination of the most powerful movie images of the last decade, including the pandemic, to create an epic and hopeful tale of cinematic innovation from around the globe.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Wednesday, September 21:
THE REAL BLING RING: HOLLYWOOD HEIST
Director:
Miles Blayden-Ryall
World Premiere:
Channel 4 UK (April 2022)
About:
A group of LA teenagers arrested in 2009 for stealing from celebrity homes inspired a media frenzy and a movie – now, two of them tell their stories in this docuseries.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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