To celebrate IDFA 2020 and this year’s amazing program, we’ve put together a list of our 10 favourite documentaries due for release next year in 2021.
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To celebrate IDFA 2020 and this year’s amazing program, we’ve put together a list of our 10 favourite documentaries due for release next year in 2021.
Marc Isaac’s film is a brazen hybrid featuring himself and a cast of real people that gather in his home to a scripted narrative on the theme of hospitality inspired by their personal backgrounds. Although some of the scenes (including the opener) genuinely ring true, there’s no knowing just how much is artifice.
Finalist of the paus lockdown competition, Gloria Kurnik’s Mothers is a delightful short film that immediately captured our imagination with the simplicity of its approach and its raw beauty.
Matt Wolf is the director of the newly released 'Spaceship Earth', the crazy story of Biosphere 2, a wild 90s experiment where eight people tried to survive for two years within a glass structure that recreated the earth's atmosphere, along with its plant and animal life.
In a dark room of Paris’ Grand Café in 1895, secretary Alice Guy-Blaché is one of the first people in history to witness the ‘cinématographe’. That day, Alice’s fate as one of the most important figures of early cinema was sealed, but whether she’d be remembered was far less certain.
Callum’s last watch was “Disconnected”, a timely short on loneliness, his favourite true crime is “OJ, Made in America” and next he’s watching “Still Bill” to find out more about the late legend Bill Withers, sadly a recent victim to Coronavirus.
Despite the global pandemic, Sheffield Doc/Fest will deliver on its promise to filmmakers and industry representatives, exceptionally holding its flagship pitching initiatives, MeetMarket (for features and series) and Alternate Realities Talent Market (for new media creatives), via virtual video-conferencing from the 8th to 10th of June 2020.
Director Will Hazell came up with an ingenious filming technique in order to capture people’s feelings, worries and musings on the Covid-19 outbreak while maintaining a safe distance in his car. He speaks to friends, members of a London Covid-19 Facebook page, and captures balcony and window performances by Desree and Mazaika.
