Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, November 4:
CALENDAR GIRLS
Director:
Maria Loohufvud, Love Martinsen
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
Thessaloniki Doc, Docs Against Gravity, Cork, Brisbane, Edinburgh, Helsinki
About:
A coming-of-golden-age look at Florida’s most dedicated dance team for women over 60, shaking up the outdated image of “the little old lady,” and calling for everyone to dance their hearts out, while they still can.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to OVID this Friday, November 4:
LAPÜ
Director:
Juan Pablo Polanco, César Alejandro Jaimes
World Premiere:
Sundance 2019
Select Festivals:
Berlin, CPH:DOX, Thessaloniki Doc, Cartagena, Documenta, San Francisco, Antenna Doc, DMZ Doc
About:
An indigenous Colombian woman goes on a vital spiritual journey.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to OVID today, Tuesday, November 1:
MORONI FOR PRESIDENT
Directors:
Saila Huusko, Jasper Rischen
World Premiere:
Big Sky Doc 2018
Select Festivals:
Los Angeles, Frameline, Seattle Queer, DocuWest
About:
A gay ex-Mormon campaigns to lead the Navajo Nation.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, November 1:
LOVING HIGHSMITH
Director:
Eva Vitija
World Premiere:
Solothurner 2022
Select Festivals:
Locarno, Docaviv, Biografilm, Outfest, Provincetown, Sydney
About:
Her thrilling best-sellers were adapted into hit films, but in her previously unpublished private journals, Patricia Highsmith is revealed as a woman who had to keep her love for women out of sight and away from her family.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1:
AFTER THE MURDER OF ALBERT LIMA
Director:
Aengus James
World Premiere:
Woodstock 2019
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Phoenix
About:
A man hires bounty hunters to bring his father’s killer to justice.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1:
THE INVADERS
Director:
Prichard Smith
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2015
About:
Filling in a lost chapter of civil rights history, a look at the generation of radicals that emerged in Memphis in 1967.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to PBS’s Independent Lens tonight, Monday, Oct 24:
TIKTOK, BOOM.
Director:
Shalini Kantayya
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
SXSW, CPH:DOX, San Francisco, Hot Docs, Zurich
About:
With TikTok now crowned the world’s most downloaded app, these are the personal stories of a cultural phenomenon, told through an ensemble cast of Gen-Z natives, journalists, and experts alike. Why is an app, best known for people dancing, the target of so much controversy?
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres and to Netflix today, Friday, October 21:
DESCENDANT
Director:
Margaret Brown
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
New York, SXSW, CPH:DOX, Camden, IFF Boston, Sidewalk, Mill Valley,
About:
After a century shrouded in secrecy and speculation, descendants of the Clotilda – the last known ship carrying enslaved Africans to the United States – reclaim their story.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to VOD today, Friday, October 21:
THE PEZ OUTLAW
Director:
Amy Bandlien Storkel, Bryan Storkel
World Premiere:
SXSW 2022
Select Festivals:
Cleveland, Freep, Calgary, Hot Springs Doc, Bergen, Seattle, IFF Boston
About:
Steve Glew spent the 1990s smuggling rare pez dispensers into the USA from Eastern Europe, making millions of dollars – until his arch-nemesis, The Pezident, decided to destroy him.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
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.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
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