Documentaries
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Director Maria Ramos follows Desi closely but never intervenes. No questions are asked, and there are no voice-overs.
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The camera gets exceedingly close to the women in this film. They are prostitutes whose lives are almost devoid of hope. Some are young,…
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25 years have passed since Philip Brooks fled from Australia to Paris. Now he has returned with a film crew to confront his own…
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Non-fiction films from before Nanook of the North (22) are not regarded as documentaries. They are mostly seen as pure registrations of the world,…
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This potent 95-minute documentary visits the ongoing proceedings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), by which that nation administers amnesty for…
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Leo Isiemine reports from the 43rd International Leipzig festival of documentary and animated films, the traditional East Bloc film festival that after stagnation in…
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The setting is an isolated, remote spot in Russia, the village of Shoina - sixty kilometres north of Archangel. During winter the village is…
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Ghini has a problem. If he is going to embrace Christianity and be baptised before the arrival of the Messiah in 2000, he has…
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Dreaming of a better life, migrants from the Northeast of Brazil speak about the city of São Paulo, and sing it in prose, songs,…