Written and Directed by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
Produced by Deal, Lessin, and Gillian Caldwell
Released by Variance Films
USA. 86 min. Not Rated
Wouldn’t it be timely for a documentary to closely investigate the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, which lifted restrictions on political spending by corporations and […]
Produced and Directed by Jody Shapiro
Released by Everyday Pictures
Canada. 89 min. Not Rated
The face on Burt’s Bees natural products is a pretty good likeness of the real-life beekeeper’s hirsute craggy face. Burt Shavitz’s beeswax was the original basis for the lip balm I use every day, and as the face of a growing international personal […]
Directed by Andreas Johnsen
Produced by Katrine A. Sahlstrom
Released by International Film Circuit
English and Mandarin with English subtitles
Denmark. 89 min. Not Rated
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case overlaps and then follows-up Alison Klayman’s Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012). But it stands alone as an intimate portrait of a stubborn artist inspired to turn government harassment into the […]
Directed by Nabil Ayouch
Produced by Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Eric Van Beuren, Patrick Quinet, and Ayouch
Written by Jamal Belmahi, based on the novel The Stars of Sidi Moumen by Mahi Binebine
Released by Kino Lorber
Morocco/France/Belgium. 115 min. Not Rated
Moroccan Arabic with English subtitles
With Abdelhakim Rachid, Abdedlilah Rachid, Hamza Souidek, and Ahmed El Idrissi El Amrani
On May […]
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Produced by Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzieciol & Ewa Puszczynska
Written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Released by Music Box Films
Polish with English subtitles
Poland/Denmark. 83 min. Rated PG-13
With Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik and Joanna Kulig
Ida is an exquisitely beautiful road trip through the emotional consequences of exposing Poland’s expedient secrets and denials.
The […]
Written, Produced and Directed by Lucía Puenzo, based on her novel Wakolda
Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films
Spanish and German with English subtitles
Argentina/France/Spain/Norway. 93 min. Rated PG-13
With Alex Brendemühl, Natalia Oreiro, Diego Peretti, Florencia Bado, Elena Roger, and Guillermo Pfening
This thoughtful thriller takes a fresh look, through a girl’s eyes, at a mystery usually treated in a […]
Directed by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez
Produced by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
Released by Cinema Guild
English and Nepali with English subtitles
USA. 118 min. Not rated
Manakamana provides irresistible wish fulfillment for those who want a guilt-free opportunity to stare at fellow passengers on a transport. Let alone that each takes the 10-minute cable car ride almost […]
Directed by Samantha Grant
Produced by Grant and Brittney Shepherd
Released by Gush Productions/ITVS
USA. 76 min. Not rated
In the age of punditry dominating 24/7 cable TV news and Internet bloggers, tweeters, and infotainment gossip, it still matters that The New York Times, “The Great Gray Lady” founded as a counter to the 19th-century yellow journalism tabloid newspaper […]
Directed by Georg Maas
Produced by Dieter Zeppenfeld, Axel Helgeland and Rudi Teichmann
Written by Maas, Christoph Tölle, Stale Stein Berg & Judith Kaufmann, based on a novel by Hannelore Hippe
Released by Sundance Selects
Germany/Norway. 99 min. Not rated
German and Norwegian with English subtitles
With Juliane Köhlern, Ken Duke, Sven Nordin, Julia Bache-Wiig, Liv Ullmann, and Rainer Bock
Two Lives […]
