Tag Archives: Documentary

Coelacanth (SEEL-uh-kanth): a large fish with limblike fins, armored scales and a tail that no other living fish possesses. This prehistoric fish was thought to have died out with the dinosaurs in the great extinction. It has laid hidden deep in our oceans undisturbed and undetected for 70 million years—a true living fossil. The coelacanthContinue reading “Dinofish – 2013”

Set in a quasi-ghost town that once thrived with oil in China’s arid northwest, Yumen is a haunting, fragmented tale of hungry souls, restless youth, a wandering artist and a lonely woman, all searching for human connection among the town’s crumbling landscape. One part “ruin porn”, one part “ghost story”, and entirely shot on 16mm,Continue reading “Yumen – 2013”

Alexander Kluge’s 2012 Frankfurt lectures on poetics. Director : Alexander Kluge Cast : Alexander Kluge Genre : Documentary Release Date : 3/28/2013 Country : Germany

Eight Rwandan children leave their families behind to embark on a life-or-death journey seeking high-risk heart surgery in Sudan. Their hearts ravaged by a treatable disease from childhood strep throat, they have only months left to live. Open Heart reveals the intertwined endeavors of Dr. Emmanuel, Rwanda’s lone government cardiologist fighting to save the livesContinue reading “Open Heart – 2013”

Anthony Wonke directs this documentary marking the 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster. Re-examining the events that led to the drilling platform, at the time the largest and oldest in the North Sea oilfield, exploding on the night of the 6th July 1988, killing 167 men, the film includes testimonies from rescuersContinue reading “Fire in the Night – 2013”

In 1970, Brazil was in the throes of a military dictatorship that lasted 20 years. Persecutions, arrests, killings, kidnappings. The film Seventy rejoins 18 characters of this story, forty years later. The film mixes the excitement of revisiting the past with a vision, sometimes even good humored of everything they lived. Many years afterwards theyContinue reading “Seventy – 2013”

A photographer shares unpublished images chronicling time spent among the ‘fiercely independent’ residents of a remote English fishing village. Director : Michael Almereyda Cast : Chris Killip Genre : Documentary Release Date : 1/1/2013 Country : United States

In this highly anticipated update of the influential and widely acclaimed Tough Guise, pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural theorist Jackson Katz argues that the ongoing epidemic of men’s violence in America is rooted in our inability as a society to move beyond outmoded ideals of manhood. Director : Cast : Jackson Katz Genre : DocumentaryContinue reading “Tough Guise 2 – 2013”