Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, December 9:
LOUDMOUTH
Director:
Josh Alexander
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
About:
A disruptive spotlight on Reverend Al Sharpton – the pastoral prodigy turned political firebrand turned media establishment figure.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to NatGeo tomorrow, Thursday, December 8, to Disney+ this Friday, December 9, and to Hulu this Sunday, December 11:
RETROGRADE
Director:
Matthew Heineman
World Premiere:
Telluride 2022
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Busan, Hamptons, Vancouver, Antenna Doc, Heartland, Bergen, Philadelphia, Montclair, Cork, Denver
About:
The story of the last months of the 20-year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan officers they trained.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID tomorrow, Thursday, December 8:
MOTHER, I AM SUFFOCATING. THIS IS MY LAST FILM ABOUT YOU.
Director:
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
World Premiere:
Berlin 2019
Select Festivals:
Sheffield, Documentary Fortnight, Docaviv, Encounters, Durban
About:
A personal essay about the filmmaker’s relationship to his home continent, Africa.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID today, Wednesday, December 7:
WESTERN
Directors:
Bill Ross, Turner Ross
World Premiere:
Sundance 2015
Select Festivals:
Nantucket, Hot Docs, San Francisco, Full Frame, Sarasota, Dallas, Ashland, Maryland, Montclair
About:
Towns on both sides of the Rio Grande face the threat of drug cartels.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
New to DVD this week:
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 VOD today, Tuesday, December 6:
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 DVD today, Tuesday, December 6:
IL BUCO
Director:
Michelangelo Frammartino
World Premiere:
D’A Film Festival 2021
Select Festivals:
Venice, New York, Busan, Beijing, Tokyo, BFI London, Thessaloniki, Mar del Plata, Vienna,
About:
A hybrid docufiction recreation of a 1961 speleological expedition to measure Europe’s deepest cave in Italy’s Calabria region.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to OVID this week:
BIG SONIA
Directors:
Leah Warshawski, Todd Soliday
Premiere:
Napa Valley 2016
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Seattle, Cleveland, Sun Valley, Big Sky Doc, Milwaukee, Durban, Jewish fests in San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Palm beach, Charlotte, Kansas City, Southampton, and Miami
About:
An intimate and at times humorous portrait of an unstoppable Holocaust survivor.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Tuesday, December 6:
UNVEILED: SURVIVING LA LUZ DEL MUNDO
Director:
Jennifer Tiexiera
World Premiere:
HBO/HBO Max (December 2022)
About:
A docuseries exploring the horrifying, yet relatively unknown story of the Christian church La Luz del Mundo and the sexual abuse that scores of members, many of them minors, say they have suffered at the hands of its successive leaders, known as the “Apostles.”
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, December 6:
BANKSY MOST WANTED
Director:
Aurélia Rouvier, Seamus Haley
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, El Gouna, Philadelphia, Warsaw, Mill Valley, Sidewalk, Encounters
About:
The ultimate film about the mysterious rebel artist.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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