The author of Real Talkies watches a few documentaries every week. Short docs, hour length docs and feature length docs on netflix, at the theaters, special screenings with the filmmaker, at film festivals or in one of the film classes at school. Films act on us in different levels and our experiences are very subjective. The author will share her thoughts on the documentary pick of the week.
“INSIDE DEEP THROAT” – A documentary about the 1972 American pornographic film and its impact on the American audience, the film’s cast and crew and Society.
“YES MADAM, SIR” - An AUSTRALIAN Documentary about the life of Kiran Bedi, the first Indian woman to enter the police services.
SOUND AND FURY – An AMERICAN Documentary that explores a family’s struggle on whether to provide cochlear Implants for their deaf children.
IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA – a Liberian Documentary about the first year in the presidency of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia’s first female president.
TAQWACORE, THE BIRTH OF PUNK ISLAM – a Documentary that follows the progression of the Muslim Punk scene: from its imaginary inception in a novel written by a white-convert named Michael Muhammad Knight to a full-blown, real-life scene of Muslim punk bands and their fans.
BABIES – an global Documentary that captures the lives of four adorable babies from Namibia, Mongolia, Japan and America.
AMARGOSA - an AMERICAN Documentary about the eternal struggle an artist goes through to find their personal expression.
AMERICAN FEUD, A History of Conservatives and Liberals – An AMERICAN Documentary that is a 101 on Liberalism and Conservatism for citizens fed up with the status quo.
PRESUMED GUILTY - MEXICAN Documentary about two lawyers – Roberto Hernandez and Layda Negrete and their struggle to free Toño, who is a victim of the Mexican Judicial system were you are guilty until proven innocent.
SWEETHEARTS OF THE RODEO – An AMERICAN documentary about female inmates who compete in the 2007 Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo
HOW MUCH IS YOUR DEAD BODY WORTH – A BBC Horizon documentary that explores how dead bodies have become big business.
LAST TRAIN HOME – CHINESE Documentary about the world’s largest human migration.
FLOATING TOMATOES – BURMESE Documentary about Tomato farming and environment degradation on the beautiful Inle Lake
RABBIT A LA BERLIN – BERLIN WALL documentary from an unusual perspective – A rabbit’s point of view
