A Ballerina’s Tale (2015)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Nelson George
Actors: Bevy Smith, Deirdre Kelly, Misty Copeland, Raven Wilkinson, Victoria Rowell
Country: United States of America
Facing Monsters (2022)
Kerby Brown made headlines in 2008 when he surfed a 40-foot wave: The ride of a lifetime. He’s been chasing that thrill ever since. Facing Monsters follows Kerby and his…
The Departure (2017)
An intimate character study of the complex figure Ittetsu Nemoto, an aimless and rebellious former punk rocker-turned-Buddhist priest. He is renowned in Japan for saving the lives of countless suicidal…
President (2023)
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The leader of the opposition MDC party, Nelson Chamisa, challenges the old guard ZANU-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, known as “The Crocodile.” The election tests…
Julia Sweeney – Letting Go of God (2008)
Julia Sweeney’s third autobiographical monologue, Letting Go of God takes the audience through her Catholic upbringing and how personal events in her life and that of her family led her…
Lords of Scam (2021)
This documentary traces the rise and crash of scammers who conned the EU carbon quota system and pocketed millions before turning on one another.
I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946)
The movie follows the clock round as music hall clown Beby takes off his make up, goes home for a meal, looks at photos and goes to bed to rise,…
The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
Agnes Varda’s documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy’s film The Young Girls of Rochefort.
A Night in 67 (2010)
In the 1970s, “festivals” were incredibly popular in Brazil, as they were recorded before a live studio audience, and usually featured a number of elimination rounds. They also formed the…
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010)
A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
Tapped (2009)
Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig’s debut feature is…
Patient Seventeen (2017)
Meet a surgeon who claims to remove highly advance implants, nanotechnology microchips imbedded by aliens, non-humans monitoring our earth. Discover the world of abductions, scalar wave transmissions and a program…