Category Archives: Releases

Coming to DVD tomorrow, Friday, May 27:
ROMANTIC ROAD

Director:
Oliver McGarvey

World Premiere:
Edmonton 2017

Select Festivals:
DocPoint Tallinn, DocPoint Helsinki

About:
A long-married British couple take a six-month trip, driving their old 1936 Rolls Royce through rural India.

Coming to OVID tomorrow, Friday, May 27:
STEALING RODIN

Director:
Cristóbal Valenzuela

World Premiere:
SANFIC 2017

Select Festivals:
BAFICI, Thessaloniki Doc, It’s All True, Guadalajara

About:
An investigation into the 2005 disappearance of a sculpture in Chile.

Coming to Hulu tomorrow, Thursday, May 26:
LOOK AT ME: XXXTENTACION

Director:
Sabaah Folayan

World Premiere:
SXSW 2022

Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Atlanta

About:
An exploration of how Jahseh Onfroy tapped raw talent, a gift for connecting with disaffected youth, and a mastery of social media to fashion himself into SoundCloud rapper XXXTentacion – one of the most streamed artists on the planet.

New to VOD this week:
BEAUTIFUL THINGS

Director:
Giorgio Ferrero, Federico Biasin

World Premiere:
Venice 2017

Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Taipei, SF DocFest, Edinburgh, Sydney, Hot Docs, New Horizons, RIDM, True/False, Dokufest, DMZ Docs, In-Edit, Melbourne, Dok Leipzig, Docville

About:
Four men from around the world present a meditation about the means of production of material goods and consumerism in our society.

Coming to The WORLD Channel’s America ReFramed series tomorrow, Thursday, May 26:
CHINATOWN RISING

Director:
Harry Chuck, Josh Chuck

World Premiere:
CAAMFest 2019

Select Festivals:
Disorient, Guam, Asian/Asian American fests in Philadelphia, Boston and San Diego

About:
This deeply personal chronicle weaves together never-before-seen archival footage and photographs of a San Francisco neighborhood in transition.

Coming to DVD/VOD today, Tuesday, May 24:
¡VIVA MAESTRO!

Director:
Ted Braun

World Premiere:
US theatrical release (April 2022)

About:
A portrait of world-renowned conductor Gustavo Dudamel as he responds to the unexpected and daunting obstacles of social unrest in his homeland of Venezuela with powerful music-making and an innovative and triumphant concert that celebrates the power of art to renew and unite.

Coming to MUBI today, Monday, May 23:
MARINER OF THE MOUNTAINS

Director:
Karim Aïnouz

World Premiere:
Cannes 2021

Select Festivals:
IDFA, CPH:DOX, Sao Paulo, Karlovy Vary, Busan, Hamburg, Vienna

About:
In January 2019, the filmmaker decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first journey to Algeria, his father’s homeland.

Coming to PBS’s American Experience tomorrow, Tuesday, May 24:
PLAGUE AT THE GOLDEN GATE

Director:
Li-Shin Yu

World Premiere:
American Experience broadcast (May 2022)

About:
In San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900, a deadly outbreak of bubonic plague, and the hunt to identify its source, leads to an all-too-familiar spate of violent anti-Asian sentiment.