Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Friday, September 30:
WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND
Director:
Iliana Sosa
World Premiere:
SXSW 2022
Select Festivals:
Full Frame, Thin Line, RiverRun, Milwaukee, Philadelphia Latino, Los Angeles Latino, Cine Las Americas, Guanajuato, Camden, AFI Latin American, Tallgrass
About:
A gentle love letter to farmworkers, mutual caregivers, and transnational families through the filmmaker’s portrait of her grandfather.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Festival:
The 60th New York Film Festival
Dates:
September 30-October 16
About:
Nearly 60 new features – among them, 15 works of nonfiction or hybrids – are showcased in this major Fall cinema event.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Overviews, Recommendations
Coming to OVID today, Tuesday, September 27:
THE GREENAWAY ALPHABET
Director:
Saskia Boddeke
World Premiere:
IDFA 2017
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, BAFICI, Thessaloniki Doc, Biografilm, Tirana
About:
A playful profile of British director Peter Greenaway.
I previously wrote about the film for DOC NYC’s program, saying:
Acclaimed filmmaker Peter Greenaway – perhaps best known for THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE, AND HER LOVER – is a lover of patterns and sequences, a motif that recurs throughout his work. In this playful portrait by his wife, multimedia artist Saskia Boddeke, Greenaway engages in an autobiographical alphabetic word association led by his perceptive 16-year-old daughter, Pip. As the father and daughter run through their ABCs, illustrated by scenes from his lavish body of work, a deeply personal, and surprisingly revealing, portrait of Greenaway emerges.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to PBS’s POV tonight, Monday, September 26:
DELIKADO
Director:
Karl Malakunas
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2022
Select Festivals:
Sheffield, DMZ Docs, Los Angeles Asian Pacific, Sydney, Mountainfilm, Melbourne, Doc Edge, Human Rights Watch
About:
In the majestic tropical island of Palawan, three environmental crusaders confront murder, betrayal, and political corruption.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
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 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:
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 VOD today, Tuesday, September 20:
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.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to OVID tomorrow, Tuesday, September 20:
THE SEER AND THE UNSEEN
Director:
Sara Dosa
World Premiere:
San Francisco 2019
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Hot Docs, New Horizons, Reykjavík, Melbourne, Camden, RIDM, Leeds, Palm Springs, Available Light, Big Sky Doc, Seattle, Ashland, Thessaloniki Doc
About:
An eccentric Icelandic environmentalist is on a mission to protect the natural habitat of elves from development.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to Disney+ tomorrow, Friday, September 16:
MIJA
Director:
Isabel Castro
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
True/False, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Los Angeles Latino, Miami, Cleveland, RiverRun, Maryland, San Francisco
About:
When Doris, a young, ambitious music manager whose undocumented family depends on her ability to launch pop stars, loses her biggest client, she hustles to discover new talent and finds Jacks, another daughter of immigrants for whom “making it” isn’t just a dream: it’s a necessity.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
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