Tag Archives: Documentary

In 1996, Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, British producer Nick Gold, and American guitarist Ry Cooder convened in Havana to produce a Cuban-Malian collaboration. When the Malians couldn’t get visas, the team turned their attention to reviving a forgotten generation of legendary son cubano musicians and formed an on-the-fly ensemble: the Buena Vista SocialContinue reading “Buena Vista Social Club: Adios – 2017”

Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, documentarian Matt Embry takes viewers on a transnational journey — from Italy to Canada, and from the lab to the home — in order to examine the politics of the condition. Director : Matt Embry Cast : Genre : Documentary Release Date : 9/8/2017 Country : Canada

This documentary highlights the endangered existence of the Scottish wildcats, and the conservation efforts required to prevent their extinction. Director : Leanne Gater Cast : Iain Glen Genre : Documentary Release Date : 10/1/2017 Country : United Kingdom

Hillbrow, a Johannesburg district bristling with buildings, on whose concrete reverberates the incessant maelstrom of street sounds. This overpopulated suburb, where life is cheap, is the playground of Tebogo and Karabo. Aged around fifteen, not very interested in school, in conflict with their mothers who are raising them alone and leave them a little toContinue reading “Touching Concrete – 2017”

Moscow, Russia, December 2016. Edward Snowden, Larry Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir meet for the first time in a secret place. Apparently, Russia is interfering in the US presidential elections while it mourns the death of its ambassador to Turkey. Snowden carefully chooses his interviews, so nobody really knows something about him. As the world preparesContinue reading “Meeting Snowden – 2017”

Director : Jean-Philippe Urbach|Laurence Malaret|Roland Théron Cast : Genre : Documentary Release Date : 8/26/2017 Country :

A documentary film on the struggle of a smallest tribe in Namibia fighting for the return of the skulls of their people taken by the Germans for racial science profiling after the genocide of 1904. It also demands the finding of these tests. This is while this tribe is launching a case to seek reparationContinue reading “Skulls Of My People – 2017”

During the dark years of the last dictatorship in Argentina, at the end of 1979, in the city of Rosario,an experimental art group called Cucaño, made of very young adults, emerged. They felt the need to express their discontent against the dangerous and deadly environment while at the same time they were searching for theirContinue reading “Acha Acha Cucaracha: Cucaño Strikes Again – 2017”

Discover the story of Chef Jacques Pépin (b. December 18, 1935), a young immigrant with movie-star looks, a charming Gallic accent, and a mastery of cooking and teaching so breathtaking he became an early food icon—joining James Beard and Julia Child among the handful of Americans who transformed the way the country views the foodContinue reading “Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft – 2017”