Documentary Movies

"BLOW THE NIGHT!" Let's Spend the Night Together

"BLOW THE NIGHT!" Let's Spend the Night Together is a 1983 Japanese docu-drama shot on 16mm film starring actual Yanki gang members as many of the main characters.

F for Fake

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

Banca Tatuí

An afternoon at Banca Tatuí, at the Santa Cecília neighborhood, in São Paulo.

The Contestant

Francesca, a freelance gym teacher, lives alone with her three sons in Sardinia. She's a woman, a mother, a worker who struggles every day to survive. And she's my aunt. The economical crisis goes on, and her efforts now don't seem to be enough to maintain the life status that she desires for her and her children. That's how she decides to take a chance and enter in a TV quiz show... How her dreams to change her life situation manage to coexist with her everyday struggles?

Shānzhài Screens

Shenzhen at night, copyist painters recount their daily lives and their craft. Their acts shift alternately between an artistic and blue-collar imagery, from new technology to classical techniques. Here, another history of painting is being drawn.

The Borrowed Dress

After her seven children fled Syria seeking refuge worldwide, 80-year-old Susu finds herself with no other choice but to leave Damascus and move to Dubai to live with her daughter’s family. Despite the security she enjoys in the Gulf city, she remains persistent in her desire to return to the now-empty, family house in the country that millions of people have left.

Andanças

Baldur From Bakki

Baldur is a shy, soft-spoken man and a local legend of his remote valley in Iceland. He has a dream: Meeting his long-lost friend who is living on a distant shore on an Island in the Pacific ocean. Who is Baldur's friend? What magnificent experiences do they share from the past?

Sinestesia

Synesthesia is an initiative that seeks to create this musical monster, focused on sound and visual discovery.

I've Got the Blues

Following her award-winning documentary, One Tree Three Lives, about novelist Hualing Nieh Engle, Hong Kong director Angelina Chan examines the artist Yank Wong Yan-kwai. A complex man who resists easy categorizations, Wong is a painter, art director, set designer, writer, musician, and photographer, an elusive renaissance man of bountiful creativity. More than a portrait of an artist and the creative life, the lm is also a high-octane cat-and-mouse game between lmmaker and subject: one tries to capture, the other evades

Gloriosxs

After years of pure carnival, red-and-white colors, and strong social commitment, the Alta Córdoba murga Los Gloriosos reaches its tenth anniversary, turning their birthday corso into a space for cultural reclaiming, resistance, and struggle. Gloriosxs dives into the origins of the murga through the testimonies of Diego and Constanza, for whom Los Gloriosos is not just a murga, but their family.

Чувственный контакт

Alexey Trantsev and Alexey Mutin lost their hands as a result of an electrical injury. Years later, they mastered bionic prostheses and live like ordinary people. Only they sorely lack the ability to feel with their hands — to feel warmth, cold, water, or touch their beloved girlfriend. Meanwhile, scientists are developing a system for sensing hand prostheses.

Volem rien foutre al païs

In this economic war, promised to us many years ago and which advances like bulldozer, does there still exist a surge of imagination offering resistance ? Ordered to choose between the breadcrumbs of precarious employment and the meager charity still offered by the system, some abandon the society of consumption to claim back their lives. “Neither exploitation nor handouts!” many of them exclaim. They’ve chosen another path, that of autonomy, of consciously choosing to undertake certain activities, and of uniting together with other like-minded people.

Viva Niki! The Spirit of Niki de Saint Phalle

The late French American artist Niki de Saint Phalle is remembered today for her Nanas, a highly spirited force of colorful female sculptures. These figures, as with all of Niki’s works, possess an unbridled creativity that hums with the very energy of life. Through unpublished stills and recent footage shot in Europe, America, and Japan, this documentary recalls the life and legacy of the multidisciplinary artist, whose portraits and artworks japanese director Michiko Matsumoto photographed from 1981. It introduces in intimate detail such masterworks as the Tarot Garden in Tuscany, Italy, a vast collection of large-scale works more than 20 years in the making.

Finále

I am

As the international press pours into Havana, Cuba to report on the death of Fidel Castro, a little girl proudly holds a large cardboard sign over her head on the Plaza de la Revolución. In a fascinating shot lasting almost 12 minutes, we watch this girl-braids, red dress, white knee socks, fighting against the wind-as she experiences her moment in the spotlight. We can't see what's written on the sign because she's being filmed from behind. Armed with cameras and cell phones, the people around her are taking countless photos and uninvited selfies with her. As the minutes tick by, our unease grows. Placed in the role of an ignorant spectator, we have time to contemplate the omnipresence of the camera-and we become desperate to know what's written on that sign.

Kroos

A review of German football player Toni Kroos's recent career, including his time at FC Bayern Munich and Real Madrid as well as his participation in the FIFA World Cups 2014 and 2018.

For the Love of Spock

The life of Mr. Spock, as well as that of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played him for almost fifty years, written and directed by his son: Adam.

The Quilters

Follow the daily lives of several quilters inside the sewing room at South Central Correctional Center, a Level 5 maximum-security prison in a small town two hours south of St. Louis, MO. From design to completion, the men reveal their struggles, triumphs, and sense of pride in creating something beautiful in this windowless, sacred space deep within the prison walls.

Clear Skies, Light Breeze

Clear Skies, Light Breeze, is a 2013 visual essay by Tati expert Stéphane Goudet about the debut of Monsieur Hulot