After leaving NYC for his rural hometown of Bad Axe, MI at the start of the pandemic, an Asian-American filmmaker documents his family's struggles to keep their restaurant open.
There's so much here that, as with cleaning, it goes through the fabric, past the underling, to the structure, the joists, the soil.
When illness forces her away from her beloved trauma cleaning business, Sandra faces up to her traumatic past and begins a search for her birth mother.
In contrast to the visions his work gave us, now used in the background of many a documentary, the latter part of this one is very traditionally constructed, mingling direct-to-camera interview with still photographs from his chaotic years.
Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams is a pioneer in computer animation. His digital dinosaurs in Jurassic Park transformed Hollywood in 1993, but an appetite for anarchy and reckless disregard for authority may have cost him the recognition he deserved.
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Scott Leberecht; Stars: Steve 'Spaz' Williams, Robert Patrick)
Kyi has a sharp eye for the little details of people’s homes and unconscious behaviours which enrich our understanding of who they are.
A documentary about two conservative, Christian mothers who have become fierce advocates for LGBTQ+ people—and a young lesbian whose struggle for self-acceptance exemplifies why the mama bears are so important.
It’s small, sweet and not exactly filling, but it will definitely leave you with a craving for more.
Steve Glew spent the 1990s smuggling rare pez dispensers into the USA from Eastern Europe, making millions of dollars. It was all magical until his arch-nemesis, The Pezident decided to destroy him.
Director Linda Goldstein Knowlton mixes interviews with observational footage which highlights the importance of the domestic and the day-to-day.
When a Guatemalan mother seeking asylum was separated from her kids under Zero Tolerance Policy, a Facebook post by a mother in Queens coalesced into a movement as thousands of like-minded women across the US refused to stand by quietly.
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Linda Goldstein Knowlton)
What begins as a spirited romp goes to dark places before it’s done
A documentary exploring the mystery behind the infamous 1985 heist of Willem de Kooning’s seminal painting, Woman-Ochre.
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Allison Otto; Writer: Mark Monroe, Nick Andert; Stars: Glenn Howerton, Sarah Minnich, Brandon Z Ruiz, Eric Banks, Hailee Cruzen)
