New to streaming via OVID.tv this week:
ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL
Director:
Pascal Plisson
Premiere:
Champs-Elysées 2013
Select Festivals:
Locarno, COLCOA LA, Athens, Mill Valley, Portland,
About:
Kids from Kenya, Morocco, Argentina, and India walk hours just to go to school.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, March 4:
ROCK BOTTOM RISER
Director:
Fern Silva
World Premiere:
Berlin 2021
Select Festivals:
Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films, Cinema du Reel, Thessaloniki Doc, Melbourne, Karlovy Vary, Dokufest
About:
An experimental film playfully teasing out connections between humankind, geology, and the cosmos by way of the native Hawaiian population.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres and VOD tomorrow, Friday, March 4:
DEAR MR BRODY
Director:
Keith Maitland
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
Nantucket, Telluride, SXSW, San Francisco Doc, Provincetown, Miami
About:
In 1970, eccentric hippie millionaire Michael Brody, Jr decided to give $25 million away to anyone who needed it, sparking a media frenzy and thousands of letters from strangers all requesting his help.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
New to DVD this week:
LET ME BE ME
Director:
Dan Crane, Katie Taber
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
About:
Kyle Westphal grows up as an isolated autistic boy whose life is transformed by his fascination with fabric, leading him to become a fashion designer.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID.tv today, Wednesday, March 2:
LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES
Director:
Ahmet Necdet Cupur
World Premiere:
Visions du Réel 2021
Select Festivals:
IDFA, BFI London, Sarajevo, RIDM, Docs Barcelona, Flahertiana, Cinema Verite
About:
An immersion into the daily life of the director’s Turkish family, in which young adults fight every day to assert their freedom and independence in the face of a paternal authority anchored in traditional values.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to The World Channel’s America Reframed tomorrow, Thursday, March 3:
FOR THE LOVE OF RUTLAND
Director:
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2020
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Atlanta, St Louis, Cucalorus
About:
Once prosperous but now reeling from the opioid epidemic, the town of Rutland, Vermont, becomes the center of an ideological debate on refugee resettlement.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
New to Topic this week:
THE JUMP
Director:
Giedrė Žickytė
World Premiere:
Warsaw 2020
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Nantucket, Jihlava, Tallinn Black Nights, DocPoint Helsinki, DocEdge, Docville, Salem, Palm Springs, Sarasota
About:
When a Lithuanian sailor seeking asylum jumps off his Soviet ship onto a US Coast Guard vessel in 1970, he sets off an international Cold War incident.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, February 1:
FLEE
Director:
Jonas Poher Rasmussen
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Telluride, Toronto, New York, Karlovy Vary, Visions du Reel, ZagrebDox, Camden, Docs Against Gravity, Jerusalem, Melbourne, Göteborg, Hong Kong, Helsinki, Nordisk Panorama, Zurich, Busan, Reykjavik, El Gouna
Notable Recognition:
The doc has been nominated for three Academy Awards.
About:
The affecting story of a former refugee who must confront the traumas of his past to move forward with his life.
I previously wrote about the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
New to VOD this week:
PLEASE HOLD THE LINE
Director:
Pavel Cuzuioc
World Premiere:
Sheffield 2020
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Thessaloniki Doc, Guangzhou, Transilvania, One World, BelDocs, Diagonale
About:
A beautifully filmed allegory about communication and connection, told from the perspective of telecom engineers and their customers.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Starz tomorrow, Tuesday, March 1:
LADY BUDS
Director:
Chris J Russo
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Outfest, Mill Valley, Seattle Queer, Denver, Docs Mx
About:
From a Latinx LGBTQ activist to a Black Catholic school principal, six small businesswomen hit California’s newly legal cannabis trade, but struggle as aggressive regulations upend the market.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
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