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documentary: 18 publications

Filmworker

Tony Zierra
2017

Victor Fraga - 20-05-2017

Behind every great man there's always a great... assistant! Doc explores the life of Leon Vitali, Stanley Kubrick's right-hand, and reveals the immense importance of his work both before and after the filmmaker's death - now available on VoD [Read More...]

The Public Image is Rotten

Tabbert Fiiller
2017

Maysa Monção - 26-04-2017

Johnny Rotten thrives on controversy, but underneath there's a far more gentle and mellow human being - new doc at Raindance [Read More...]

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Alexandra Dean
2017

Maysa Monção - 24-04-2017

Not just a pretty face: the tragic story of the Austrian-born Hollywood star whose beauty overshadowed her extraordinary scientific skills - in cinemas Friday, March 9th [Read More...]

Machines

Rahul Jain
2016

Maysa Monção - 21-04-2017

Who is the real machine here: the one with gears or the one with hands? Doc exposes the working conditions of textile factory workers in Gujarat (India), contrasted against the vibrant colours of the garments being manufactured [Read More...]

Bunch of Kunst

Christine Franz
2017

Victor Fraga - 19-04-2017

Meet the angriest band in the UK, and find out what is it that fuels their wrath. Here's a clue: it's NOT immigrants "stealing English jobs"! [Read More...]

Fabergé: a Life of its Own

Patrick Mark
2014

Victor Fraga - 11-04-2017

New doc reveals the most expensive Easter egg ever made, created by a man whose history and legacy have come to epitomise the cravings of the super rich [Read More...]

Waiting for B

Paulo Cesar Toledo/ Abigail Spindel
2015

Victor Fraga - 26-03-2017

Beyoncé is far more than a pop star to these Brazilians queueing for two months to see their idol: she's an instrument for personal liberation in more ways than you can imagine - from Fringe! Queer Film Fest [Read More...]

The Good Postman

Tonislav Hristov
2016

Maysa Monção - 17-03-2017

In a refreshing and welcomed twist on the rampant xenophobia intoxicating Europe, a Bulgarian postman campaigns to bring refugees into his ageing village [Read More...]

The Creeping Garden

Tim Grabham/ Jasper Sharp
2014

Jeremy Clarke - 07-03-2017

You wouldn’t make a documentary about slime mould unless you found it fascinating. These two filmmakers clearly do so and their enthusiasm is likely to win you over [Read More...]

Saving Banksy

Colin Day
2017

Victor Fraga - 03-03-2017

The anti-capitalistic graffiti artist whose real identity remains as elusive as the giant squid is the subject of documentary available on iTunes [Read More...]

Uncertain

Anna Sandilands/ Ewan McNicol
2017

Victor Fraga - 02-03-2017

Touching yet at times gruesome doc examines the lives of the outcasts in one of the most remote and unlikely places of the American Deep South - in cinemas and VoD [Read More...]

In the Intense Now (No Intenso Agora)

João Moreira Salles
2017

Victor Fraga - 11-02-2017

From Brazil to Europe, this profoundly personal documentary is a nostalgic eulogy to the revolutionary vigour of the 1960s - live from the Berlinale [Read More...]

Martírio

Vincent Carelli
2016

Lobo Pasolini - 07-02-2017

Look at the guarani-kaiowá indigenous people of Brazil in the eye, plus experience their culture, spirituality, strength and revolt firsthand, as they engage in a battle against eviction and genocide - screening on April 19th [Read More...]

Avanti Popolo

Rafi Bukai
1986

Art Haxhijakupi - 06-02-2017

Drink, laugh, struggle and cry as Israeli and Arab soldiers strike an impossible friendship - the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival rescues one of the most important Israeli anti-war classics of all times [Read More...]

Winnie

Pascale Lamche
2017

Maysa Monção - 23-01-2017

Repeatedly arrested, constantly monitored and unjustly vilified, the living legend Winnie Mandela remains a role model for Black women and human rights campaigners all over the world - at Hot Docs London [Read More...]

Memory Exercises (Ejercicios de Memoria)

Paz Encina
2016

Maysa Monção - 25-09-2016

The American vulture that kills: families in Paraguay are still mourning and healing from the brutal acts and murders carried out as part of the infamous Operation Condor - taut yet tender movie is streaming now with DMovies [Read More...]

Deliver Us (Libera Nos)

Federica Di Giacomo
2016

Tiago Di Mauro - 10-09-2016

Demon-infested or moonstruck? Empathetic and non-intrusive doc gets under the skin of Italians 'possessed' by demons without passing judgment and breaking the dysfunctional characters - in cinemas [Read More...]

Ben-Gurion: Epilogue

Yariv Mozer
2016

Victor Fraga - 09-08-2016

Is this the friendly face of Israel? New doc reveals unforeseen interview with the founder of Israel after he retired from politics; we see an avuncular and apparently balanced old man, but his rhetoric is sometimes ambiguous - from the Jewish Film Festival [Read More...]