Directed by Mika Kaurismäki • 1994 • Brazil, Finland
Starring Jim Jarmusch, Samuel Fuller
In 1954, Hollywood maverick Samuel Fuller traveled to the Brazilian jungle to scout locations for an adventure film called TIGRERO that was to star John Wayne, Ava Gardner, and Tyrone Power—a project that was ultimately scrapped by Twentieth Century-Fox. Forty years later, Fuller and indie legend Jim Jarmusch retraced the elder director’s journey, returning to the Amazon basin, where Fuller experiences a poignant reunion with the Indigenous Karajá people he first encountered decades ago. What ensues is a one-of-a-kind portrait of cross-cultural connection and a by turns thoughtful and playful exploration of the relationship between time, memory, and cinema.
Directed by Yevgeni Tsymbal • 2002 • Russia
The fascinating and tumultuous lives of Mikhail, Boris, and Denis Kaufman—the last better known as revolutionary Soviet director Dziga Vertov—are the focus of this illuminating documentary. All visionary artists who pushed the stylistic boundaries of c...
Directed by Dónal Foreman • 2018 • Ireland
Starring Arthur MacCaig
An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late American documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig’s decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Drawing on over thirty years of ...
Directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi • 2011 • Israel, Palestine
Starring Emad Burnat, Mohammed Burnat, Soraya Burnat
An extraordinary work of political activism through cinema, 5 BROKEN CAMERAS is a deeply personal, firsthand account of nonviolent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village thre...
