Documented: People
This collection of documentaries examines the lives of people, either from a biographical, observational or historical standpoint. These stories of musicians, artists, activists, and others, offer up portraits of individuals whose lives inspire, and provide audiences with an insight into how others navigate the world we live in, while facing challenges, both big and small.
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Nas: Time is Illmatic
"[A] brisk, stylish and extremely heartfelt portrait of Nas' rise from the housing projects of Queensbridge to the heights of hip-hop royalty." Variety
Tribeca Film Festival
Vancouver Film Festival
BFI London Film FestivalThree decades after its release, Illmatic has become a hip-hop benchmark...
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Bill Cunningham: New York
"Genuinely in love with clothes, Cunningham makes you think of fashion in a more positive and enlightened way." Observer
Bill Cunningham: New York chronicles a man who was obsessively interested in only one thing — the pictures he takes that documented the way people dress. Cunningham lived in t...
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Mama Gloria
"In her first feature, director Luchina Fisher lovingly captures the lived experience of a woman who deserves to go down in queer history." POV Magazine
Chigago International Film Festival
BFI Flare
Inside Out Film FestivalMeet Mama Gloria. Chicago’s Black transgender icon Gloria Allen blazed ...
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Last Days At Sea
"Venice Atienza’s wistful and evocative documentary is rooted in the liminal space between childhood and adolescence." The Guardian
Berlin International Film Festival
Hot Docs International Documentary Festival
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam12-year-old Reyboy lives in Karihatag, ...
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Your Mother's Comfort
Inside Out LGBT Toronto Film Festival
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Outfest Los Angeles“We transgender are the revolution!” Indianara Siqueira, trans activist and politician, admonishes her political party for ousting her days before the 2018 Brazilian national elections. In the same election cycle extrem...
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Manu
"Emmanuelle Bonmariage delivers a multi-layered documentary about a filmmaker and extraordinary man’s road to remembrance." Cineuropa
IDFA
Docville
Munich Dok FestThe Belgian filmmaker Manu Bonmariage now has Alzheimer's at age 76. As his memory starts to fade, his daughter Emmanuelle goes bac...
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Mighty Jerome
Vancouver International Film Festival
From acclaimed filmmaker Charles Officer comes the story of the rise, fall and redemption of Harry Jerome, Canada's most record-setting track and field star. Gorgeous monochrome imagery, impassioned interviews and astonishing archival footage are used in thi...
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My Prairie Home
"Director Chelsea McMullan captures Canadian transgender folk singer Rae Spoon's music and life story in sensitive detail." Variety
Sundance Film Festival
Cork International Film Festival
Winner Milan International Lesbian and Gay Film FestivalIn this feature documentary-musical by Chelsea McM...
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A Young Patriot
Toronto International Film Festival
CPH: DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
Sheffield Doc/Fest'A Young Patriot' explores the patriotism in China`s youths born after 1990. The film follows a 19-year-old Zhao and his flag-waving,slogan-shouting 'patriotic exhibitionist' for 3 ...
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Jaha's Promise
Sheffield Doc/Fest
CPH:DOX
Mill Valley Film FestivalJaha's Promise tells the remarkable story of activist Jaha Dukureh, as she returns home to Gambia from the U.S. to campaign against the female genital mutilation practices that almost destroyed her life. Having endured the devastating impact o...
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Elena
"a mesmerizing, artful and emotional piece of filmmaking that consistently surprises and awes in its sensitivity." The Playlist
SXSW Film Festival
Hot Docs International Film Festival
Thessaloniki Documentary FestivalDreamlike, lyrical and haunting, Petra Costa’s deeply personal film document...
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Silence Is A Falling Body
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Filmfest Hamburg
Brooklyn Film FestivalSilence Is A Falling Body follows filmmaker Agustina Comedi as she explores hundreds of hours of footage from the videotapes that her father Jaime recorded throughout his life. Her search to learn more abou...
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Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero
“Compelling… ‘Transmissions After Zero’ chronicles Brainiac’s unlikely rise and subsequent fall with intelligence and humor.” -Variety
SXSW Film Festival
Cleveland Film Festival
Cork Film FestivalIn the mid 90’s the Dayton, OH music scene became a hot spot generating worldwide buzz for the inf...
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What Walaa Wants
Hot Docs Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Seattle International Film FestivalWhat Walaa Wants follows Walaa from age 15 through 21 raised by her environment in a refugee camp. Separated from her mother due to an eight year prison sentence, Walaa is a determined young woman recog...
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The Case Of The Three Sided Dream
“By emphasizing live performance and audio recordings over interviews, Kahan lets Kirk's talent speak for itself.” - Chicago Reader
Raindance Film Festival
Leeds International Film FestivalJazz musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk spent his career and life defying conventional limitations. Born blind,...