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Everything Is Copy
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Jacob Bernstein)
A documentary tribute to Nora Ephron, made by her son.
Field of Vision: New Episodic Nonfiction
(Country: US, Germany; Year: 2015; Director: Laura Poitras; Stars: Julian Assange)
An anthology of short documentaries, including one looking at Julian Assange's quest for asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
Fish Tail (Rabo De Peixe)
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2015; Director: Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel)
a portrait of a fishing community on the Azorean island of Rabo de Peixe.
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) Part 1: Before The Fall
(Country: Iraq, France; Year: 2015; Director: Abbas Fahdel; Writer: Abbas Fahdel)
A portrait of everyday life as Iraq prepared for war in 2002.
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) Part 2: After The Battle
(Country: Iraq, France; Year: 2015; Director: Abbas Fahdel; Writer: Abbas Fahdel)
A documentary about the ordinary people trying to get by day to day in Iraq in 2003, after the collapse of the state.
Immigration Battle
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Michael Camerini, Shari Robertson; Stars: Luis Gutiérrez)
Democrat Illinois Representative Luis Gutiérrez fights political battles over immigration.
Ingrid Bergman In Her Own Words
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2015; Director: Stig Björkman; Stars: Ingrid Bergman)
A documentary about the private life of Ingrid Bergman, told through her letters and diaries.
In Jackson Heights
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Frederick Wiseman)
Documentary about the district in New York's Queens.
Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2014; Director: Walter Salles; Writer: Walter Salles, Jean-Michel Frodon; Stars: Jia Zhangke)
Documentary about the Chinese director.
Rebel Citizen
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Pamela Yates; Stars: Haskell Wexler)
A documentary portrait of Haskell Wexler.
Troublemakers: The Story Of Land Art
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: James Crump; Stars: Germano Celant, Virginia Dwan)
A documentary about the New York Land artists of the Sixties and Seventies who migrated to the American Southwest.
We Are Alive (On Est Vivants)
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2015; Director: Carmen Castillo)
The Witness
(Year: 2015; Director: James Solomon; Stars: Bill Genovese)
Kitty Genovese’s brother Bill, 16 at the time of her famous murder, tries to track down the people who knew her, loved her, and tried to help her, to arrange a possible meeting with her killer, and to recover the presence of his beloved sister.
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