Category Archives: Releases

Coming to theatres today, Friday, June 10:
THE STORY WON’T DIE

Director:
David Henry Gerson

World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2021

Select Festivals:
AFI Docs, Watch Docs, Poland’s American Fest, Woods Hole

About:
A portrait of a young generation of Syrian artists who use their work to process their ongoing trauma and to express themselves as they never could under the repressive regime that forced them into exile.

New to VOD this week:
THE SNOW CALLS

Director:
Marjan Khosravi

World Premiere:
IDFA 2020

Select Festivals:
DMZ Docs, Big Sky Doc

About:
After bearing three daughters, Mina has one more chance: her next child has to be a boy, or her husband will marry another woman.

Coming to Ovid.tv today, Friday, June 10:
THE IMAGE YOU MISSED

Director:
Donal Foreman

World Premiere:
Rotterdam 2018

Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, RIDM, Cinema du Reel, Dokufest, Edinburgh, Dublin, Galway, Guth Gafa, BAFICI, Art of the Real, Indielisboa, Guanajuato, Melbourne, Vancouver, DocsMX

About:
An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late American documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig’s decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland.

Coming to Discovery+ today, Thursday, June 9:
DR. DELIRIUM & THE EDGEWOOD EXPERIMENTS

Executive Producers:
Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Craig H Shepherd, Nick Brigden

World Premiere:
Discovery+ (June 2022)

About:
An investigation into classified human subject research conducted on thousands of soldiers at the Edgewood Arsenal facility in Maryland from 1955 to 1975 by the United States Army Chemical Corps, experiments meant to evaluate the impact of potent, mind-altering chemical warfare agents on military personnel as an alternative to traditional combat.

New to VOD this week:
MISSION: JOY – FINDING HAPPINESS IN TROUBLED TIMES

Director:
Louie Psihoyos

Co-Director:
Peggy Callahan

World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021

Select Festivals:
Thessaloniki Doc, Docs Against Gravity, Cleveland, Boulder, Mill Valley, Palm Springs, Mountainfilm

About:
An exploration of the friendship between Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Coming to Ovid.tv tomorrow, Friday, June 10:
THE PATRIOT GAME

Director:
Arthur MacCaig

World Premiere:
Cannes 1979

Select Festivals:
Rotterdam, Cinema du Reel, Festival dei Popoli

About:
An essay film examining the conflict in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1978, covering the height of the Troubles.

Coming to Netflix today, Wednesday, June 8:
KEEP SWEET: PRAY AND OBEY

Director:
Rachel Dretzin

Co-Director:
Grace McNally

World Premiere:
Netflix (June 2022)

About:
A docuseries examining the rise and fall of Warren Jeffs in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

New to VOD this week:
BEING BEBE

Director:
Emily Branham

World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021

Select Festivals:
Provincetown, NewFest, Outfest, BFI Flare, Tallgrass, Sound Unseen, Image+Nation, Heartland

About:
In 2009, Bebe Zahara Benet was crowned the first winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, but the franchise hadn’t yet achieved notoriety, so without an infrastructure to support her next steps, Bebe is confronted with the fickleness of fame.

Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, June 7:
BALONEY

Director:
Joshua Guerci

World Premiere:
Frameline 2021

Select Festivals:
Outfest, LGBT fests in Tel Aviv, Palm Springs, Boston, Seattle,

About:
The titillating and charming story behind San Francisco’s first and only all-male gay revue.