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Popular Documentary Movies
Elements of a Journey: Antoni Tàpies
Elements of a Journey: Antoni Tàpies is an experimental documentary focusing on the legacy of Antoni Tàpies, the 20th century Catalan painter and sculptor who died in 2012. The film, which follows the artist growing up during the dictatorship of Franco, is strongly relevant to the divisive politics of today. Its goal is to engage viewers who are looking for stories of how artists personally navigate complex journeys; spiritual, political and everyday. Tàpies stood out in his lifetime, not only as a major painter but also as the voice of freedom and hope for an entire generation during a very dark period in Spain’s history.
The Mind Game
When he was just 14, Sajid Khan Nasiri fled Afghanistan alone. After a two-year journey filled with danger and hardships – which he minutely documented on his phone camera – he arrives in Belgium to seek asylum. There, a whole new struggle begins. Intimate sequel to the prize-winning Shadow Game.
De Facto
How can cinema engage with complicity in crimes against humanity, extreme violence and state terror without conniving in it? De Facto finds answers to this question via two actors, a precisely compiled collage of texts and a deliberately reduced setting.
Égypte - Enquête sur la nécropole des taureaux sacrés
On the mythical site of Saqqara, the Apis bulls were buried for more than a thousand years in the immense underground necropolis of the Serapheum. Discovered in 1850 by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, this place shelters a treasure of which a part is preserved in the Louvre. The collapse of the ceiling of one of the galleries had however prevented the archaeologist from venturing into the entire necropolis. More than 170 years later, the museum's Egyptologists are continuing the work of their famous predecessor. Investigating the cult of the Apis bull and the mysterious rituals that surrounded it, the team is especially looking for access to the unexplored parts, which have at least eight burial chambers, with the hope of finding intact tombs.
Sculpting This Earth
Follows internationally acclaimed artist Strijdom van der Merwe over four consecutive seasons as he travels to remote locations in the southern African interior to make beautiful land art works in a striking range of spectacular natural settings.
Sorrow
Dialoguing and coexisting with a Kallawaya family, their interpersonal relationships and relationships with nature are portrayed. The spectator can witness how ritual medicine, textiles, music, oral tradition and their different relationships come into contact with globalization, thus preserving the memory of this community.
Tri Âm: Người Giữ Thời Gian
My Tam will realistically depict all the psychological and emotional developments of joy and sorrow, difficulties and sublimation during the performance of the historic Tri Am Liveshow with precious footage filmed in 2 years.
Wisconsin Pride
Wisconsin has a long, but hidden, LGBTQ+ history. In the 1970s and '80s, LGBTQ+ leaders' fight for equality earned Wisconsin the nickname "The Gay Rights State." The first hour of this documentary explores how diversity in sexual orientation, gender identity and expression are a normal part of the human experience. It opens with Indigenous people prior to Wisconsin’s European colonization and continues through the 19th and 20th centuries. The film's second hour explores how forward-looking Wisconsinites challenged LGBTQ+ harassment and injustice in visionary ways, long before these efforts received national attention. Through organized protest, an independent press, and gay bar-centered social networks, a movement grew that helped build a coalition for legislative LGBTQ+ rights. Embracing and celebrating Wisconsin’s LGBTQ+ history is vital for protecting these hard-won human rights and expanding them to all.
The Missing Soldier
For 9 months, Irina has had no news of her son who was captured during the battle of Marioupol. We conduct an investigation in the small Ukrainian town where she lives to try to find out what happened to him.
Greener Pastures
Contemplating the future of farming in America through the day-to-day lives of four small, Midwestern, multigenerational family farms over the course of three years.
BronX BandA: Arturo O'Farrill & The Bronx
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Bronx, 6-time Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist Arturo O'Farrill brings to life a 9-piece hip-hop-jazz ensemble converting stories of South Bronx life to music resounding in the streets.
171
171 - It fools me that I like. It is a documentary about short stories and storytellers with almost hypnotic gifts to involve the listeners, the peculiar figure of the "171" (Brazilian embezzlement criminals), who can be as much a criminal swindler as a guy with good speech
To Show or Not to Show
Filmmakers talk about their experiences - about success, failure and social participation. Who is seen, and who can show themselves?
TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective
TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective is the definitive film telling the story of how the 1989 cult classic series 'TUGS' was brought to our TV screens, and how it survived beyond its premature end.
The Last Seagull
Ivan, 58, is a seagull, a Bulgarian ladies’ man hooking up with female tourists at a Sunny Beach resort. He has done this for forty years, ever since the Communist times. Ivan wants to settle down, but that’s not so easy for an old Seagull. He’s got no savings and the pandemic makes things even more difficult: there are no tourists. Ivan supports himself by washing cars and windows. He tries to connect to Russian ladies to help them get visas to the EU and buy property in Bulgaria. He soon understands that he’s not really credible as a serious male companion. Ivan’s real wound is an adult son in Ukraine who refuses to talk to him. Maybe now, in spring 2022, would be the right time to reconnect.
GOMBURZA (An NHCP Documentary)
Christianity arrived in the Philippines together with Spanish colonization, but it became a fount for resistance against oppression.
!Aitsa
The ancient knowledge of indigenous peoples challenges high-tech science in a near-cosmic tale from a South African desert where the world’s largest radio telescope is being built with antennae aimed at the far corners of the universe.
Have A Word: Bonged Up Abroad (The Amsterdam Special)
The Have A Word lads go to Amsterdam and get potted. May contain a goatee.
The Last Movie
A serious and terminal diagnosis changes filmmaker Petter Vennerøds life abruptly. He wants you to join him o his last film - but it's urgent. The illness in his head is taking his words and thoughts. We follow Petter until he gets the opening sequence he wants in the film; the funeral.
In the company of Anastasia & Markku, filmmakers from the Far North
Markku Lehmuskallio, Finnish, is a woodsman turned filmmaker. Anastasia Lapsui, born under a Nenètse tepee and the granddaughter of a shaman, became a radio journalist in the Nenètse language and has never stopped singing the stories of the tundra. They met 30 years ago, and have been making documentaries and feature films together ever since, inspired by the lives and legends of the Arctic peoples of Siberia, Canada and Scandinavia. Two beings united to create a cinema of resistance, inspired by the sacred breath of myths and the relationship that the cultures of the Far North once had with Mother Earth.
Crass: The Sound of Free Speech (The Story of Reality Asylum)
The film dives into 1970's Britain; the birth of punk and the formation of Crass, with an in-depth look at their art, music and ethos.
Beyond Tradition – The Power of Yodelling and Yoiking
What is tradition? This is the question posed by yodeller and food researcher Meinrad Koch from Canton Appenzell. In search of an answer, he embarks on a journey.
Texas, USA
A documentary film exploring what it takes to build a new, hopeful vision for democracy against enormous odds. It’s an underdog story, told through the lives of candidates and organizers during the statewide 2022 election who tell an unexpected story of persistence, community, and progress in an unlikely place.
Russie, journal d'une année de guerre
A young Russian filmmaker opposed to the war in Ukraine is secretly filming its effects from her small hometown in the west of the country.
January
‘January’ is an independent documentary that follows the stories of a group of six young people living their ordinary, yet surprisingly funny, lives.
Summer Grass
On a Typical day on the sunny grasslands of Tibet, offering a rare glimpse of daily life shared between two family members that have been separated for over 40 years.
White Grass
In Mongolia, Munkhjargal dreams of following in both her father's and her ancestors' footsteps as a horse trainer. Unfortunately, her entire way of life is threatened by a once rare but increasingly common phenomenon of extreme and unrelenting cold known as dzuds, which is forcing Mongolian herders to rethink their nomadic way of life.
Aerojet
An experimental documentary depicting the abandoned Aerojet Rocket Testing Facility, a relic of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Aerojet explores how America exploits the land beneath it, contrasted with the hell on earth this environmental neglect may leave in its wake.
Rûbare Xembareke
The documentary follows the life and struggles of Kurdish singer Mustafa Dadar (aka Musto Dadar).
Japan, a Tea Master's Quest
At the foot of Mount Fuji, Mohei Honda, 36, is one of the most innovative tea masters in Japan. Leading a handful of young trailblazers, Mohei experiments, refines and reinvents the ancient art of tea, which he holds up as the perfect antidote to the modern world’s frenzy. He even travels the country in a “tea truck” with an ambitious goal: to win over the hearts and minds of Tokyoites...
MI6 Invisible Missions
This documentary explores the history of MI6, the famous British intelligence agency made popular by the 007 franchise. Get ready for the impossible to become possible in MI6 Invisible Missions.
Carmen Troubles
Georges Bizet's famous opera Carmen tells the story of the eponymous Gypsy woman, depicted as being impulsive and with an eye on smuggling. Taking this perpetuated stereotype into account, we visit a group of Spanish gypsy women who are claiming their own space.