A young woman from the lower caste, or Dalit, in southern India named Thulasi dreams of becoming a professional boxer. While the stigma of being Dalit already constitutes one obstacle to her dream, Thulasi finds that in the women’s boxing world are other, hidden obstacles to movi... Read More »
The Hand That Feeds is a film documenting the struggle of twelve employees as they take on the powerful investors who own a well known New York restaurant franchise over poor working conditions and unfair wages. Or at least that’s what this documentary is supposed to be about. In... Read More »
Finnish filmmaker Paul Anders Simma’s latest work is a nearly hour-long documentary on the life of Olga. We first meet her in the middle of winter, 1800km north of Moscow, in Lapland’s stunning snow landscapes. As a food storage guard (and the only woman working) for a herding co... Read More »
“He wouldn’t even have minded becoming a tortoise himself if it meant Mrs Silver stroking his shell each morning and whispering endearments to him.” —Roald Dahl, Esio Trot You will need but a moment in the company of Heilika Pikkov’s film and its subject, the octogenarian Russia... Read More »
Petr Lom and Corinne van Egeraat’s first film collaboration takes place in post-2011 revolution Egypt. Four female subjects constitute a ‘cinematic poem’ of impressions, images, and identities, with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Contrary to the title’s implication, the women are not... Read More »
Deep inside of Harvard University, within a building called the W.E.B Du Bois institute, there is an experiment underway to create a whole new academic discipline. Inside the building is the HipHop Archive and Research Institute, a project that is trying to “encourage the pursuit... Read More »
“Fuck you” make for fitting first words in a film as fundamentally angry—in subject, if not sensibility—as Apollonian Story. They’re directed at the rock hewn by sexagenarian Nissim Kahlon, who continues to carve the house he first cut in the cliffs along Israel’s northern coastl... Read More »
It’s as reductive as it is, perhaps perplexingly, requisite to consider a varied slate of cinema through a handful of shared ideals; festival coverage is, by nature, tailored toward such snapshot l'état du cinema summation. There’s a great deal more to the Full Frame Documentary ... Read More »
Remember the 1990’s? Specifically the time when most frizzy-haired women and heavily-mustached men obsessed over a fame-crazed blonde named Pamela Smart? You know, she became famous for hiring three hormonally-challenged high school boys to kill her husband? They made a TV movie-... Read More »
In times of rough circumstances, people find of way to get through while trying to get by. Then there are amazing cases like Abigail Evans. Abigail is a teenager who lives with epiderolysis bullosa (EB), a life-threatening disease that causes the skin to be so fragile, resulting ... Read More »
