Documentaries
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…
Leo Isiemine reports from the 43rd International Leipzig festival of documentary and animated films, the traditional East Bloc film festival that after stagnation in…
The setting is an isolated, remote spot in Russia, the village of Shoina - sixty kilometres north of Archangel. During winter the village is…
Ghini has a problem. If he is going to embrace Christianity and be baptised before the arrival of the Messiah in 2000, he has…
Dreaming of a better life, migrants from the Northeast of Brazil speak about the city of São Paulo, and sing it in prose, songs,…
An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as by the film's own director,…
Street booksellers in the U.S. need no licence, because they are protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution, which says that everyone has…
This is a documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the…
It is probably the weirdest home video you'll ever see. Ricardo Lopez, a troubled youth from Florida, made an extensive video diary preceding his…