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When the elderly caretaker of a remote morgue discovers the body of a young woman killed during a protest, he embarks on a magical odyssey to give her a proper burial before the militia returns. Winner of four awards, including Best Screenplay and the FIPRESCI Prize at the **Venice International Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** *"Haunting and perplexing." - Jordan Mintzer, **Hollywood Reporter***
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Academy Award nominated filmmaker Lourdes Portillo mines the complicated intersections of analysis and autobiography, evidence and hypothesis, even melodrama and police procedure in this documentary. Early one Sunday morning, the filmmaker receives a phone call informing her that her beloved Uncle Oscar Ruiz Almeida has been found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in Chihuahua, Mexico. His widow declares his death a suicide. Most of his family,...
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Fisher Klingenstein Ventures, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common-law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts those who knew the Morgans. This feature documentary by filmmaker Kasper Collin is a love letter to two unique personalities and the music that brought them together.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 2013, seventeen-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons took her own life. The Halifax teenager had been gang-raped a year and a half earlier by her classmates and labeled a "slut" as a result. Despite transferring schools many times, she could not escape constant cyber harassment and in-person bullying. Rehtaeh's is not the only story like this to make headlines in recent years. Why is the sexual shaming of girls and women, especially sexual assault victims,...
10) The Queen
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The Queen begins with a familiar epigraph "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"--Henry IV, Part II. The action of the film takes place during the week following the death, on August 31, 1997 of Diana, Princess of Wales. One of its accomplishments, courtesy of adroit use of newsreel and other contemporary footage, is to remind viewers of the deep sadness that surrounded that event. It is also about the divergent and potentially ruinous ways the...
11) Santoalla
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Language
English
Description
Progressive Dutch couple Martin Verfondern and Margo Pool had only one dream, to live off the land, far from the constraints and complications of the city. But, when they arrive in the crumbling Spanish village of Santoalla, the foreigners challenge the traditions of the town's sole remaining family, igniting a decade-long conflict that culminates in Martin's mysterious disappearance.
12) 16 shots
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued. After the police initially declared the shooting as justified, journalists and activists fought for footage of the event to be released, sending the Chicago Police Department and local Chicago government officials into upheaval as the community demanded justice"--Container.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution, but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.
Series
Criterion collection volume 808
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles, early exemplars of the movement known as Direct Cinema....
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
Español
Description
Following the assassination of Pancho Villa on the outskirts of Parral, Chihuahua, the whole city mourns his death. Villa's closest collaborators hold a wake for the revolutionary hero. Standing out among the mourners are the four women with whom Villa was having intimate relationships at the time of his death. As expected, the tension between the women grows and intensifies, culminating in a dramatic surprise ending.
16) Charm City
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Delivering a candid portrait of citizens, police, community advocates, and government officials on the frontlines during three years of unparalleled, escalating violence in Baltimore before and after Freddie Gray's death in police custody. The film highlights the positive actions undertaken by groups and individuals, who come together to rebuild, heal, and forge a better way forward.
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Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
On September 29, 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He took her into his chaotic and eccentric home in Liverpool to see her through her last days. Though their affair had ended years before, it was to him that she turned in her final hour of need. Takes place over the course of three weeks in...
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