Sentences with phrase «unflinching documentary»

The Canadian filmmaker discusses his latest film, an unflinching documentary about harm reduction practices for drug users and sex workers in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood.

With exclusive access to Valle, Erin Lee Carr's unflinching documentary asks a fundamental question that challenges our beliefs about the criminal justice system, and even the very nature of right and wrong: can you be guilty of a crime you only thought about committing?

An unflinching documentary look inside America's heroin crisis.

This gritty, unflinching documentary by Linas Phillips traces the misfortunes of 10 of Seattle's hard - core homeless over a period of a year.

Through personal footage and interviews, the unflinching documentary tells the story of late pop star Amy Winehouse and her tragic struggle with fame, addiction, notoriety and stunning talent.

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Unflinching and compelling, this gutsy documentary blames governmental failure for the rise of vigilante groups who are taking on drug cartels either side of the Mexican border.

The documentary feature Whitney is an intimate, unflinching portrait of Houston and her family that probes beyond familiar tabloid headlines and sheds new light on the spellbinding trajectory of Houston's life.

Unflinching and compelling, this gutsy documentary blames governmental failure for the rise of vigilante groups who are taking on drug cartels either...

«Steve James» engrossing documentary about Roger Ebert celebrates the late film critic's life and work but also presents an unflinching view of his medical difficulties.»

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

It's a film our critic describes as «emotionally devastating,» and it's hard to see how any documentary that takes such an unflinching and deeply - felt look at the aftermath of such an epochal tragedy as the school shootings in Newtown Connecticut could not be — especially as the film focuses not on the killer or on the politics of the event, but simply on the children, in particular on three of the victims, and their families trying to cope in the wake of an incomprehensible loss.

«O.J.: Made in America» Despite being nearly eight hours, this documentary never gets boring in it's unflinching look at racism in America.

The acclaimed series, with Lois Vossen as executive producer, features documentaries united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement, and unflinching visions of independent filmmakers.

SIFF: «Exhilarating yet touching, this vivacious documentary takes an honest look at the life of late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, from his humble beginnings and surge to stardom in the fashion world to his battles with mental illness, in an unflinching ode to one fashion's most original artists.»

In «Only the Dead See the End of War,» the most unflinching war documentary I've ever seen, Ware is first - hand embedded in a kill - or - be-killed scenario, where the natural environment is phenomenally tense and terrifying, even as just a viewer in a theater.

Much like Werner Herzog's documentary Grizzly Man, this is a story that draws sharp lines between adventure and madness, shedding light on McCandless unflinching romanticism for being free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experience of nature, which ironically cost him his life.

In the September 2011 issue of Artforum, Michèle Faguet wrote, «Mikhailov's unflinching view of an unpicturesque reality is infused with a fatalistic sense of humor that avoids the easy, exploitative tropes of victimhood often associated with documentary photo.»