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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced shortlists in 10 categories for the 97th Academy Awards including Documentary Feature Film and Documentary Short Film. Among the films nominated, there are The Bibi Files by Alexis Bloom, Black Box Diaries by Shiori Ito, Dahomey by Mati Diop, No Other Land by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Queendom by Agniia Galdanova, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat by Johan Grimonprez and many more. Read the full lists here.
We’re extremely excited to see so many of our favourite films from the past year included in this record-breaking tally of Oscar shortlisted documentaries. For every one that we’ve covered you’ll find a link to our review, including a trailer and a link to watch the film for yourself.
As lockdown persists around the world and travel continues to be ruled out, we teamed up with The Movie Diorama to bring you our 10 favourite documentaries that focus on global subcultures, so that you can continue to explore the world through film.
National Geographic, The Nobel Prize and Oscar-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel have collaborated on a five-part short documentary series, celebrating the ongoing impact and influence of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates around the world.
For our first episode of “What Are You Watching?” we met Matt, who had his mind blown by the ‘Zeitgeist’ movies as a kid, was inspired by the cult film ‘American Movie’ and reckons ‘The Greatest Movie Ever Sold’, a film about product placement that is funded by product placement, is the most “WTF” doc he’s ever seen.
The Cave follows Dr Amani Ballour, a Syrian paediatric doctor and manager of an underground hospital comprised of a network of tunnels and caves in besieged Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus.
Kamal’s mission is simple: to reunite lost children with their parents. That’s no easy task in Kutupalong refugee camp, now home to close to a million people. Contributor Gabriella Volak attended the film’s screening at London’s “We The Peoples Film Festival”, backed by the United Nations.
This is a modern classic of the documentary genre and a deserved Oscar winner back in 2013.
