Documentaries
"Frescoes" is like an ideal film should be: a strong visual experience expressed in beautifully crafted pictures and using many facets of the film…
“Imagine a bird in a cage. He has forgotten to fly. When he leaves the cage to learn, he either rebels or becomes a…
Jana Sevciková’s film Old Believers starts and ends with a shot taken from a boat moving steadily down the Danube. It’s tough to know…
”How nostalgic!” exclaims a woman over the opening shot of a rising sun and the melancholy sound of an accordion in "Rice Girls". These…
Kevin McMahon is still well-remembered in Canada for his film The Falls (1991), a goofy examination of Niagara Falls that departed from the sometimes…
The film covers the Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons tests in 1998, as well as the nationalist rhetoric that accompanied these tests. It also…
Her body is imperfect. She has feet bumps that need extirpating, a stomach requiring particular expertise to be ‘held in’, teeth that need to…
The circumcision of women may be the ultimate act of subjugation, a brutal operation to control women physically, so they will go directly from…
Quite anonymous in itself, the title is well-chosen for this exceptional film. The film is about Stevie and lays his whole life bare for…