Coming to Topic tomorrow, Thursday, August 25:
GHOST FLEET
Directors:
Shannon Service, Jeffrey Waldron
World Premiere:
Telluride 2018
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Toronto, Berlin, Doc Edge, Seattle, El Gouna, Hamptons, Palm Springs, Cleveland
About:
A harrowing look at slavery on the high seas.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
New to DVD this week:
MONOBLOC
Director:
Hauke Wendler
World Premiere:
DOK.fest Munich 2021
Select Festivals:
Milano Design, Braunschweig, Kasseler Dokfest
About:
A film about a plastic chair that can be found throughout the world.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD and VOD today, Tuesday, August 23:
THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE
Director:
Iryna Tsilyk
World Premiere:
Sundance 2020
Select Festivals:
Berlin, IDFA, Hot Docs, Doc Fortnight, Thessaloniki Doc, ZagrebDox, Docs Against Gravity, Biografilm, Docudays UA, Reykjavik, Zurich, Dokufest, Adelaide, Seattle
About:
A Ukrainian family processes life in a war zone by making films about their experience.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Wednesday, August 24:
KATRINA BABIES
Director:
Edward Buckles Jr
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
Select Festivals:
Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival
About:
A first-person account of the short-term and long-term devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, as told by young people who were between the ages of 3 and 19 when the levees broke.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, August 23:
GALLANT INDIES
Director:
Philippe Béziat
World Premiere:
Bordeaux 2020
Select Festivals:
Sheffield, Hot Docs, FIPADOC, Doclisboa, Transilvania, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, Havana, Shanghai
About:
A young filmmaker works with an acclaimed choreographer to stage a baroque masterpiece at Opéra national de Paris, combining urban dance such as hip-hop, krump, break, and voguing with classical music to challenge the cultural expectations of this venerable, four-century-old institution.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, August 19:
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 theatres tomorrow, Friday, August 19:
THE TERRITORY
Director:
Alex Pritz
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
True/False, CPH:DOX, It’s All True, Docs Against Gravity, Philadelphia Environmental, Jerusalem, Movies That Matter, Cleveland, Seattle, Sydney
About:
When a network of Brazilian farmers seizes a protected area of the Amazon rainforest, a young Indigenous leader and his mentor must fight back in defense of the land and the people living deep within the forest.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to OVID this Friday, August 19:
THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL
Director:
Peter Friedman
World Premiere:
OVID (August 2022)
About:
A feature-length cinema vérité portrait of Robert Carsen, one of the world’s greatest stage directors, at work, filmed over the course of a year as he reinvents Leonard Bernstein’s CANDIDE.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID this Friday, August 19:
SILVERLAKE LIFE: THE VIEW FROM HERE
Director:
Peter Friedman, Tom Joslin
World Premiere:
Sundance 1993
About:
A video diary of life with AIDS, told with guts and humor by longtime lovers Tom Joslin and Mark Massi, celebrates the power of love in the face of a devastating illness.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to Netflix’s UNTOLD series tomorrow, Tuesday, August 16:
THE GIRLFRIEND WHO DIDN’T EXIST
Director:
Ryan Duffy, Tony Vainuku
World Premiere:
Netflix (August 2022)
About:
From Notre Dame to the NFL, Manti Te’o’s future in football showed promise until a secret online relationship sent his life and career spiraling.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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