Coming to PBS tomorrow, Tuesday, October 4:
HARRIET TUBMAN: VISIONS OF FREEDOM
Director:
Stanley Nelson
World Premiere:
PBS broadcast (October 2022)
About:
A portrait of the inspiring woman who repeatedly risked her own life and freedom to liberate others from slavery.
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Coming to PBS’s POV tonight, Monday, October 3:
THE LAST OUT
Director:
Sami Khan, Michael Gassert
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2020
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Hot Springs Doc, Virginia, Heartland, New Horizons
About:
Three talented Cuban athletes leave everything behind to pursue the ultimate dream of Major League Baseball, but face exploitation and unfulfilled promises.
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Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 30:
I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE
Director:
Reid Davenport
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
True/False, San Francisco, Hot Docs, Sydney
About:
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into an unflinching meditation on freakdom, (in)visibility, and the pursuit of individual agency.
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Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 30:
ART & KRIMES BY KRIMES
Director:
Alysa Nahmias
World Premiere:
Heartland 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, RiverRun, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Bentonville, Denver, Big Sky Doc, Fargo, Oxford, Salem, Berkshire
About:
While locked up for six years in federal prison, artist Jesse Krimes secretly creates monumental works of art, smuggling them out in pieces and seeing the final product only when he’s released.
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Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 30:
SIRENS
Director:
Rita Baghdadi
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
True/False, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Thessaloniki Doc, BFI Flare, Cleveland, Sun Valley, Florida, BAFICI, Krakow, Guadalajara, Sydney, Frameline, Outfest, BAMcinemaFest
About:
On the outskirts of Beirut, Lilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East’s first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality, and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.
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Streaming on Showtime tomorrow, Friday, September 30 and coming to TV on Showtime on Sunday, October 2:
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.
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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.
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Coming to theatres and virtual cinemas this Friday, September 30:
INHOSPITABLE
Director:
Sandra Alvarez
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
Select Festivals:
Miami
About:
Patients and activists band together to fight a multi-billion dollar nonprofit hospital system that limits vital care for vulnerable patients.
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Coming to HBO and HBO Max tonight, Wednesday, September 28:
HOSTAGES
Director:
Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre, Joshua Bennett, Abbas Motlagh, Sam Pollard
World Premiere:
HBO broadcast (September 2022)
About:
A four-part docuseries on the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, focusing on both the experiences of those involved, as well as an historical chronicle of the tangled web of US/Iran relations in the decades leading up to the Iranian Revolution.
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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.
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