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All The Beauty And The Bloodshed All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed and All That Breathes
All That Breathes (Country: UK, India; Year: 2022; Director: Shaunak Sen; Stars: Mohammad Saud, Nadeem Shehzad)
Against the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite.
Full Review See: Shaunak Sen on his documentary All That Breathes
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Laura Poitras; Stars: Nan Goldin)
The story of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty often blamed for the US opioid epidemic.
Full Review See: Nan Goldin, Laura Poitras, Harry Cullen and Megan Kapler in conversation on All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
Casa Susanna (Casa Susana) (Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Sébastien Lifshitz; Writer: Sébastien Lifshitz)
In the Fifties and Sixties, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers.
Full Review
The Future Tense (Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy)
A meditation on being Irish in England.
Kanaval: A People’s History Of Haiti in Six Chapters (Country: Haiti, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Leah Gordon, Eddie Hutton Mills)
Portraits of the country as it prepares for its carnival.
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Casa Susanna and The Future Tense
Lynch/Oz (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Alexandre O Philippe; Writer: Alexandre O Philippe)
Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.
Name Me Lawand (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Edward Lovelace)
Portrait of a young Deaf Kurdish boy.
What About China? (Country: China, US; Year: 2022; Director: Trinh Minh-ha Trinh; Writer: Trinh Minh-ha Trinh)
A cultural critique of China that resists the idea of a single historical narrative.
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