Anthropology and filmmaking meet in one of the most representative examples of the observational cinema form. In Naim and Jabar, the everyday life lived by two teens from Afghanistan takes on deeply profound dimensions through its elemental simplicity. As the camera captures the articulation of time and place in their interaction, work in its most archetypal form and play steal...
John Grierson coined the word "documentary" and was a key figure in the history of the documentary film worldwide. His best-known accomplishments are starting the British documentary movement of the 1930's, and founding the National Film Board of Canada just before the war. He was the subject of the 1973 NFB release "Grierson". This ONF film is the French version of that earlie...
When Muhammad Ali and George Foreman staged their heavyweight title fight in Zaire in 1974, a three-day music festival was held in tandem with the bout, and headliner B.B. King proved why he's regarded as the world's premier blues guitarist with this dynamic concert performed for an audience of 80,000 African fans (look carefully to spot Ali enjoying the show).
Palestinian women, the often-forgotten victims of the Israeli-Palestinian war, are here given a voice by Jocelyne Saab.
The film was commissioned by Antenne 2 (France), but it was censured while still in the editing stage and never shown. This print was specially made for this retrospective by the conservation centre at Cinemateca Portuguesa.
When Judit Elek heard some puzzling, if not outright disturbing stories about the daily life of girls and young women in the Hungarian provinces, she immediately travelled to one village, Istenmezején, to find out more about these occurrences.
It was here that young girls were married to miners, only to spend the rest of their lives doing household chores. In Istenmezején, Elek...
Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president.