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Popular Documentary Movies
The Radicals
With breathtaking cinematography, The Radicals is a documentary film that follows four snowboarders and surfers driven to become social and environmental stewards through their connection with the environments in which they play. By enjoying and appreciating their natural surroundings, these awakened athletes introduce us to some of the worlds most dedicated activists and game-changing wilderness initiatives that can actually change the world.
The Age of Solzhenitsyn
A film about the work and life of the Nobel Prize in Literature Alexander Solzhenitsyn and some people from his closest circle. The film is dedicated to the centenary of the writer.
Man on Fire
Grand Saline, Texas was a sleepy, unremarkable town--until a white preacher lit himself on fire to protest the town's racism in 2014.
Afghan Cycles
"Afghan Cycles" is a feature documentary about a generation of Afghan women who are pedaling their own revolution, aggressively challenging gender and cultural barriers using the bicycle as a vehicle for freedom, empowerment and social change.
One of the Guys
What defines a man? With the support of her chain of command, Corporal Virginie Lamarre, veteran of Afghanistan, officially becomes a man in the Canadian army.
Mountain
Springtime in northern Albania sparks the herding of goats from the lowlands, up to the towering mountainsides. Prek Gjoni is moving his livestock with the help of Jovalin. Will broken shoes and an umbrella suffice for the 4-day walk?
The Exaggerated Life
Film made with the archive material of the Catalan avant-garde poet Vermell. This philosophical comedy focuses on the years of Vermell's youth. An anxious artist who wonders himself, What is art? Immediately he throws himself on the murky waters of creation. A delirious walk through Barcelona and Paris at the end of the 20th century. The exaggerated life is a story about the dream of art and the unstoppable power of youth, passion and love.
Unfinished Symphony
80 talented students of primary and secondary music schools – laureates of prestigious domestic and international competitions, from Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, represent a tangible example of the fact that reality in the Balkans cannot be reduced to conflicts.
Light in the Darkness
In this brand new featurette, directors Guillermo del Toro (The Devil's Backbone), Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn), and Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) explain what makes Night of the Living Dead a very special film and discuss its lasting impact on the horror genre. The featurette was produced exclusively for Criterion in 2017.
To Be Far
In september 2017 Samira comes from Iran to Sarajevo, BH for the first time to shoot a documentary. She tries to connect with the country and people. In order to find people who traveled from far places like her, she attempts to visit a refugee center, but all she finds are closed gates as she isn't allowed to see anyone.
The Capital Project
Although small in population, the music scene in the city of Fredericton, New Brunswick, is rich in talent across a wide range of genres including rock, punk, hip-hop, metal, country, pop, jazz, classical, and everything in-between. The Capital Project focuses on the tightly knit community and their relationship to The Capital, a music venue and bar that has served as a lynchpin of the live music scene for over a decade.
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Living the Light: Robby Müller
For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijman had access to the thousands of Hi8 video diaries, pictures and Polaroids that Müller photographed while he was at work on one of the more than 70 features he shot throughout his career; often with long term collaborators such as Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier. The film intertwines these images with excerpts of his oeuvre, thus creating a fluid and cinematic continuum. In his score for Living the Light Jim Jarmusch gives this wide raging scale of life and art an additional musical voice.
You Are My Friend
Follow the vivacious six-year-old Branche, who has recently arrived in the Netherlands from Macedonia with his parents. Branche goes to school for the first time, but he doesn’t speak the language and doesn’t know anybody. Finding a friend isn’t all that easy.
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Eingeimpft
Just like many other parents Jessica and David, the director of this movie, spend a lot of time researching vaccinations for children. Whilst David understands it as a matter of course, Jessica is more than alarmed about the side effects. They try to figure out the best option for their daughter. David actively investigates and speaks to scientists and doctors from different countries. A sudden outbreak of measles in their Berlin neighbourhood forces them to make a decision: Will they vaccinate their daughter or not?
David Bowie Is Dead
Started in 1993, finished in 2018. "David Bowie Is Dead" is a road movie in and out of london.
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The Rest I Make Up
Maria Irene Fornes is “America's Great Unknown Playwright.” When she stops writing due to dementia, a friendship with a young writer reignites her visionary creative spirit, triggering a film collaboration that picks up where the pen left off.
Benching: The Art of Watching Trains
The tradition of watching graffiti on subway trains is passed down to a new generation.
Jag var också med
Astrid Askberger is thinking about different kinds of activism now and when she was a child and followed her mother to demonstrations.
Gimme a Faith
Evangelical Christians in the Bible Belt try to convert newly arrived Chinese international students.
Trace into Infinity
Documentary about the life and work of Oliver Dragojević, famous Croatian singer.
Souterrains
An exploration of the world of animation director and cartoonist Diane Obomsawin.
When Pigs Come
Dragoslava has four TV sets, three grandchildren, two best friends, and a husband with whom she fights over a remote control. She keeps her private archive of memories of all major events in recent political history of five countries in which she has lived, without ever moving from her apartment. She is a trained poll monitor, passionate about her right to be in the minority, but more and more desperate as another early election approach.
Meat
Istrian traditions, singing, culinary delights. All that in the time-honoured ritual of pig slaughter or prašćina. What is the importance of meat today and can we give up its utilitarian rudimentarity in the face of political, ecological, nutritionist, and other contemporary trends?
Last Sermon at George's Creek
George's Creek Baptist Church is ending. There is no new generation to inherit the church. For the elderly congregation, their stories are coming to an end as well. The church's pastor, Earl, experiences his own passing echoed in the degeneration of his wife's Alzheimers.
Andrija Matijaš "Spider"
Documentary about one of the hero's and legend's of the Croatian civil war Andrija Matijaš Pauk. From the battlefronts of Zadar and Dubrovnik to the excellent way he led the tanks in Operation "Storm". His tragic on the second to last day of the Croatian Civil War on the entrance to the town of "Mrkonjić Grad". His 4th Guard Brigade added to their name the nickname "Pauci" meaning Spiders. This documentary by Darko Dovranić from 2018 shows the life of Andrija Matijaš. It is logical that most of this documentary is set during the Croatian civil war rather then the times of peace, because after all in the hardest moments the biggest heroes shine in the dark. About "Pauk" talk about the men that fought alongside him as well as his mother Anka and his wife Nada which decided to give the "Pauk's" legacy to the safekeeping of the country he died protecting.
Berlin Excelsior
The anonymous concrete construction “Excelsior” is just a stopover for many of its inhabitants. Soon, life will get better and everyone tries to get ahead in his own way: with “Invisible Make-up”, the 49-year-old Michael wants to re-connect with his previous success as a call boy. Claudia’s days as a dancer are over, but a series of new photos are supposed to help her get back on stage. Norman wants to help others find happiness with his start-up “ChangeU” and help himself to a new sportscar. Hardly anyone can escape the temptations of success.
身体改造 タトゥー・ピアス…肉体を改造したがる人々
This documentary closely follows two Japanese individuals who have undergone body modification, a major cultural trend overseas. Through images and provocative statements, the documentary delves into the inner world of these individuals, challenging the impression that they are only feared based on their appearance.
Alberdi, a neighborhood that fights back
In the city of Córdoba, in 2018, a group of neighbors is getting organized around a multisectorial called Defendamos Alberdi. They carry out activities in order to revalue the historical, architectural and cultural heritage of the neighborhood against a State that prioritizes a commercial and individualist system.
Alfredo Doesn't Like Goodbyes
Based on family interviews and records of his trajectory, the director André Medeiros Martins performs an analysis of his mother's life history while documenting his own journey through self-knowledge. André is an artist obsessed with sex and who tries to find the reasons for these obsessions in stories about his late mother. From the exhibition of his works and reports from family members, he creates this auto-fictional documentary.
Revivification: Art, Activism and Politics in Ukraine
Since the Euromaidan revolution of 2014, Ukrainian politics has largely been contested between pro-European Union neoliberals and far-right nationalists, united only by their hatred of the Soviet past. Revivification looks at how contemporary artists in Ukraine, inspired by radical ideals as well as queer and feminist theory, are trying to work in this context, looking back at the socialist past and trying to build a more utopian future.
Secteur Ä
One of the hottest groups in French rap in the 90s is making a comeback this year. A few months ago, Doc Gyneco announced the reformation of Secteur Ä in its entirety, including Doc Gyneco, Passi, Pit Baccardi, Ärsenik, Stomy Bugsy, les Neg' Marrons, Mc Janik and Singuila. To mark the occasion, the first episode of a documentary dedicated to the Secteur Ä collective has just been released. In it, the members talk about their memories of the time, but also about how rap and hip-hop have evolved over the past 30 years.
On the Rink
The regulars of Chicago's Southside Rink show off the style and personality of the place they have called home for generations.
Sleepless: The Story of Future Classic
In 2004, Nathan McLay quit his day job to start Future Classic, a Sydney record label he hoped would put Australia's burgeoning dance music scene on the world map. It quickly became an incubator of local talent and launched the careers of genre-bending artists like Nick Murphy (formerly known as Chet Faker), Flight Facilities and Flume. This documentary traces the label's growth from a small DIY collective to an unstoppable force in contemporary music.
Two Travellers to a River
When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that don’t allow me to write about love.” In TWO TRAVELERS TO A RIVER Palestinian actress Manal Khader recites such a poem by Mahmoud Darwish: a concise reflection on how things could have been.