Festival:
The 75th Locarno Film Festival
Dates:
August 3-13
About:
Just under a third of the approximately 80 new feature presentations at this noted Swiss festival are nonfiction.
Locarno 2022: Documentary Overview
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Overviews, Recommendations
On DVD & Streaming: FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK
Coming to DVD and streaming tomorrow, Tuesday, August 2:
FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK
Director:
Bobbi Jo Hart
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, DOXA, Inside Out, Frameline, Outfest, Los Angeles Asian Pacific, Santa Barbara, Athena, Cleveland, In-Edit, Hawaii, Doc’n Roll, Woodstock, Florida
About:
Ferocious female rockers Fanny, who shattered glass ceilings in the ’70s, collecting fans like David Bowie before being buried in retro record bins, reunite fifty years later with a new record deal and a chance to rewrite history.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
On TV: HE’S MY BROTHER
Coming to PBS’s POV today, Monday, August 1:
HE’S MY BROTHER
Director:
Cille Hannibal
World Premiere:
CPH:DOX 2021
Select Festivals:
DOK.Fest Munich, Thessaloniki Doc, Melbourne, Docs Against Gravity
About:
What does the world feel like with three senses?
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Special Screening: I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE
Coming to NYC’s Rooftop Films tomorrow, Saturday, July 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.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Sundance
In Theatres: BLUE ISLAND
Coming to theatres today, Friday, July 29:
BLUE ISLAND
Director:
Chan Tze Woon
World Premiere:
Rotterdam 2022
Select Festivals:
New Directors/New Films, Hot Docs, Taiwan Doc
About:
A docufiction exploring Hong Kong’s protest movement and ensuing crackdown in the context of its history of rebellion.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
In Theatres & On VOD: MY TREE
Coming to theatres and VOD tomorrow, Friday, July 29:
MY TREE
Director:
Jason Sherman
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2021
About:
Forty years after receiving a tree for his bar mitzvah, planted in Israel in his name, the filmmaker searches it out, discovering many uncomfortable truths stemming from his gift.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
On DVD: THE TORCH
New to DVD this week:
THE TORCH
Director:
Jim Farrell
World Premiere:
Chicago 2019
About:
Guitar icon Buddy Guy reflects on his legacy and passes along the blues lessons he himself received from legends Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf to a phenom of the next generation.
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In Theatres: ONE MAN DIES A MILLION TIMES
Coming to theatres this Friday, July 29:
ONE MAN DIES A MILLION TIMES
Director:
Jessica Oreck
World Premiere:
SXSW 2019
Select Festivals:
Goteborg, Ashland, Sarasota, Montclair, Maryland, Woods Hole, Vancouver, Milwaukee, Kolkata, Cairo
About:
Part documentary, part legend, the true story of a Russian seed bank and the botanists who worked there throughout the Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944), transposed to a sci-fi-inflected future.
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Streaming: THE MOST HATED MAN ON THE INTERNET
Coming to Netflix today, Wednesday, July 27:
THE MOST HATED MAN ON THE INTERNET
Director:
Rob Miller
World Premiere:
Netflix (July 2022)
About:
Determined to remove her daughter’s photos from a revenge porn website, a persistent mother launches an online crusade to shut down its cruel founder.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
On VOD: BEBA
New to VOD this week:
BEBA
Director:
Rebeca Huntt
World Premiere:
Toronto 2021
Select Festivals:
Berlin, CPH:DOX, Docaviv, Miami, Tribeca, Provincetown, Minneapolis-St Paul
About:
A raw, poetic self-portrait in which a young, NYC-born Afro-Latina filmmaker stares down historical, societal, and generational trauma.
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