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The Opulent World of Qatari Falconry
Yuri Ancarani's documentary The Challenge immerses viewers in the dazzling subculture of ultra-wealthy sheiks who practice falconry.
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A Thriller About Parisian Terrorists Refuses to Pass Judgment
Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama follows a group of Parisians as they plan and carry out coordinated terrorist attacks and then hole up in a luxury department store.
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A Cute but Clawless Documentary on Istanbul's Street Cats
In Kedi, human Istanbulites reflect on their complex but loving relationships with the city's feline inhabitants.
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From a Suicidal Sheriff to a Scrappy Sandpiper, a Look at the 2017 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts
The five films nominated for this year's Academy Award for the best animated short film use a range of animation and storytelling styles to shuttle characters and viewers across time and space.
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The Banality of Concentration Camp Tourism
We are attracted to the places where bad things have happened, but we rarely reflect on what actually occurred therein.
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Watch the UK's Oldest Known Erotic Film, a Victorian-Era Striptease
The British Film Institute's newly digitized "The Pleasure Principle" collection gathers examples of erotic cinema from the 19th to 21st centuries.
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A Documentary About China's Coal Mining Industry Fuels Western Biases
Zhao Liang's Behemoth is another instance of viewing China from a Western perspective — one that is quick to demean and infantilize Chinese citizens as incapable of governing themselves.
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A Search for Love and Safety in LGBTQ Nightclubs
When Adomako Aman decided to make Dancing in the Dark, he was seeking solidarity with “other gay men, especially gay men of color” who could share in his experience.
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An Insider's View of the Life and Death of a Brooklyn DIY Venue
A new documentary about Death By Audio, a beloved music venue in Williamsburg that was forced to shutter in 2014, over-relies on the reminiscences of the people involved with the space.
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Invitation to the Party: Jan Nemec's 1966 Satire of Czech Communism
Long seen as the “enfant terrible” of Czech cinema, Němec constantly found himself in trouble with Czech government authorities, and was almost arrested for making this film.
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A Documentary Envisions a Book James Baldwin Never Finished
Directed by Raoul Peck, I Am Not Your Negro is montage and meditation, a dialogue between the archive and the present.
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Documentarian Adam Curtis Dissects the World that Gave Rise to Trump
In Hypernormalisation (2016), Adam Curtis not only anticipates Trump’s victory, but also zeroes in on the abject disbelief and shock that followed in its wake.