A very interesting doc on post-war Afghanistan…
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You may have never known that a human voice can make sounds like this…
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A great doc on Sidi Touré, a musician from Mali who has been struggling to make an international break. The style is raw and unabashedly video-ish.
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A brilliant argument for the use of digital video by one of the world’s foremost artists of the cinema. He argues that a filmmaker doesn’t need a crew, a big budget, and pretentious ideas to make films- a filmmaker needs real life and a video camera. As Abbas says, digital video brings cinema back into the hands of the artist… (from the documentary “10 on Ten”)
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The only film made by renowned Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who died at the age of 32. This poetic portrait of a leper colony is considered a landmark film in Iranian cinema and in the history of essay filmmaking. Though it is sometimes difficult to watch, it is one of a handful of films that, in its unremitting portrayal of suffering and difficulty, exposes a powerful, human dignity.
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A short film on memory by Iona Fournier-Tombs
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Another fabulous, poignant BBC documentary on the wonders of Islamic art and architecture, presented by the humorous and greatly enthused Waldemar Januszczak.
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A fabulous work of travel-documentary
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