Stranger at the Gate (2022)Director: Joshua SeftelFeaturing: Richard McKinney, Bibi Bahrami, Saber Bahrami, Zaki Bahrami, Kent Kurtz, Dana McKinney, Emily McKinney Our current space is filled with division, with otherness, with hatred and vitriol. Stranger at the Gate, a Documentary Short Subject nominee at the 95th Academy Awards directed by Joshua Seftel, begins with a […]
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Delphine’s Prayers/Les prières de Delphine (2021) Director: Rosine Mbakam The latest feature documentary from Belgium-based Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam, a documentarian well regarded for spotlighting the experiences of African migrant women, is an extended interview with Delphine, a 30 year-old fellow Cameroonian immigrant to Belgium with a captivating if harrowing life story to tell. While
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Songs for the River (2021) Director: Charlotte Ginsborg Like many world-changing disasters, the Coronavirus pandemic has already inspired some great art, from Cold War Steve’s satirical collages on Twitter to Rob Savage’s Zoom horror Host and Kevin Macdonald’s crowd-sourced documentary sequel Life in a Day 2020. Charlotte Ginsborg’s documentary Songs for the River is another important work,
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Juste un mouvement/Just A Movement (2021) Director: Vincent Meessen “Cinema can serve to explore the creation of forms, their embryology.” Jean-Luc Godard In 1967, French New Wave auteur Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) released La Chinoise, a film about French university students studying Maoism, filmed in a cinéma vérité style that deliberately blurred the boundaries between film
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The Sparks Brothers (2021) Director: Edgar Wright Starring: Ron Mael, Russell Mael, Edgar Wright Whether you’ve seen one Edgar Wright film or his entire filmography, one thing is apparent: his love of music. Whether that be shown through the likes of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, or through his more music-centered films such
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Crip Camp (2020) Directors: James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham Screenwriters: James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham Starring: James Lebrecht, Judy Heumann, Ann Cupolo Freeman, Denise Sherer Jacobson, Neil Jacobson, Lionel Je’Woodyard, Joseph O’Conor, Corbett O’Toole, Eunice Fiorito, HolLynn D’Lil, Dennis Billups In a world that is seemingly more unjust and unequal with each day that goes by, heartfelt
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My Octopus Teacher (2020) Directors: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed Screenwriters: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed Starring: Craig Foster, Tom Foster Of all the genres in film and television, the one that has never lost its shine or appeal is the wildlife documentary. From ‘Tiger King’ to the David Attenborough renaissance, we simply cannot get enough, almost
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Do Not Split (2021) Director: Anders Hammer A nominee for Documentary Short Subject at the 2021 Oscars, Do Not Split from Norwegian born journalist and documentarian Anders Hammer takes place across one of year of violent and impassioned protests in Hong Kong between 2019 and 2020, illustrating the efforts of the Hong Kong people attempting to rebel
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Colette (2020) Director: Anthony Giacchino Subjects: Colette Marin-Catherine, Lucie Fouble So often, the offerings from the documentary form live and die by their subjects, and in 2021 Documentary Short Subject Oscar nominee Colette, director Anthony Giacchino has found one of the most engrossing subjects imaginable in Colette Marin-Catherine. A survivor of the Nazi occupation of
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Rebel Dykes (2021) Directors: Harri Shanahan, Sian Williams Rebel Dykes is the feature length version of the 2016 documentary that explores the lesbian subculture of the same name born out the punk movement in 1980s London. The documentary explores how being a lesbian was not only a sexual orientation but a political identity; presenting the
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