A conventional documentary about an unconventional instrumentโthe ancient shakuhachiโand the people who seek spiritual clarity through playing it.
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Shakuhachi: One Sound One Life (2019)
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Tag / Documentary
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Inmates (2017)
This 5-hour long observational documentary shot in a psychiatric ward in Northeast China humanises patients diagnosed with mental illnesses and gives them tremendous empathy and dignity.ย ย
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Our Time Machine (2019)
A modest if tender documentary about an Alzheimerโs-stricken father (a retired Peking opera director) and his son (a multimedia artist) who try to heal through art and the creative process as they witness the ravages of time on their mortal connection.ย
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Thousand Cuts, A (2020)
An urgent and frightening documentary for our troubled times as it tackles the problem of fake news and disinformation through the prism of politics, social media and journalism in The Philippines.
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Honeyland (2019)
A dogged Turkish beekeeper in rural North Macedonia is the anthropological subject of this ravishingly-beautiful documentary that poetically explores the joys and sadness of personal subsistence.ย
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991)
One of the greatest documentaries about the making of a movie everโand of ‘Apocalypse Now‘ no less.
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Junun (2015)
P.T. Andersonโs mesmerising hour-long shot-in-India documentary about the coming together of musicians to record an album is a musical dream transcending its raw, no-frills production.
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Painter and the Thief, The (2020)
Art, crime and the human condition intersect deftly in this beguiling documentary about the unlikely friendship between a painter and the thief who stole her paintings.
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Kingmaker, The (2019)
If politics can be beguiling, then this documentary about Imelda Marcos entertainingly captures the ups and downs of The Philippinesโ larger sociopolitical history with aplomb.
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High-Rise (2009)
An eye-opening documentary with an interesting use of sound, about morbidly rich penthouse-residing Brazilians and why they choose to literally live the high life.
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